The IESG has received a request from the MBONE Deployment WG (mboned) to consider the following document: - 'Automatic Multicast Tunneling' <draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-14.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2012-12-19. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document describes Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT), a protocol for delivering multicast traffic from sources in a multicast-enabled network to receivers that lack multicast connectivity to the source network. The protocol uses UDP encapsulation and unicast replication to provide this functionality. The AMT protocol is specifically designed to support rapid deployment by requiring minimal changes to existing network infrastructure. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
