On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 09:40 -0500, Thomas Narten wrote: > Pars Mutaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I believe that dot-local DNS (also called multicast DNS) will be > > even more useful in the future. However, I suspect that there is > > a problem. For example, in WiMax, a cellular standard, nodes cannot > > L2 multicast. > > Who cares what happens at L2? That is not a concern to IP.
But we can build new applications comfortably if we know that the signaling and energy costs were minimized ? (I mean regardless of L2 specific details) pars > If you are really saying that over a WiMax network, IP multicast is > not supported, well, I would expect that this will be a problem for > any application that relies on multicast. Presumably the market will > sort out whether this is a problem or not. > > Thomas -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
