{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-mboned-embeddedrp-07",
  "doc_id": "RFC3956",
  "title": "Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address",
  "authors": [
    "P. Savola",
    "B. Haberman"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "18",
  "pub_status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "source": "MBONE Deployment",
  "abstract": "This memo defines an address allocation policy in which the address of the Rendezvous Point (RP) is encoded in an IPv6 multicast group address.  For Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), this can be seen as a specification of a group-to-RP mapping mechanism.  This allows an easy deployment of scalable inter-domain multicast and simplifies the intra-domain multicast configuration as well.  This memo updates the addressing format presented in RFC 3306. [STANDARDS-TRACK]",
  "pub_date": "November 2004",
  "keywords": [
    "RP",
    "Rendezvous Point",
    "internet protocol"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [
    "RFC3306"
  ],
  "updated_by": [
    "RFC7371"
  ],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC3956",
  "errata_url": null
}