{"draft":"draft-ietf-ssm-arch-07","doc_id":"RFC4607","title":"Source-Specific Multicast for IP","authors":["H. Holbrook","B. Cain"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"19","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Source-Specific Multicast","abstract":"IP version 4 (IPv4) addresses in the 232\/8 (232.0.0.0 to\r\n232.255.255.255) range are designated as source-specific multicast\r\n(SSM) destination addresses and are reserved for use by\r\nsource-specific applications and protocols.  For IP version 6 (IPv6),\r\nthe address prefix FF3x::\/32 is reserved for source-specific multicast\r\nuse.  This document defines an extension to the Internet network\r\nservice that applies to datagrams sent to SSM addresses and defines\r\nthe host and router requirements to support this extension.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"August 2006","keywords":["[--------|p]","ipv4","ssm","ipv6"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4607","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc4607"}