Sounds like a logical step forward. 
This should be an applicability statement for the Mboned-defined AF for a 4-6-4 
network scenario.

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On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:02 AM, "Lee, Yiu" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good feed back. We started to address dslite and like what you said this
> could be more generic then just dslite. I will talk to the authors and see
> what we should do.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> 
> On 3/23/12 1:02 PM, "Stig Venaas" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/22/2012 7:29 PM, Lee, Yiu wrote:
>>> Hi Stig,
>>> 
>>> DS-Lite was designed to deliver v4 unicast packets over v6-only network
>>> to
>>> v4 host. However when we started thinking about how to deliver multicast
>>> packets in the same network setup, we will have to tunnel all multicast
>>> packets over tunnels. This is very inefficient to use of AFTR. This is
>>> the
>>> motivation of dslite-multicast draft. However, you are absolutely right.
>>> This is a solution for tunneling IPv4 multicast through an IPv6-only
>>> network.
>> 
>> I agree that double tunneling is a non-starter, so the draft seems to do
>> the right thing. But since we seem to agree it is a more general
>> solution, why not change the title and the text to make it more
>> generic? You can still say that one of the use-cases is to provide IPv4
>> multicast for DS-Lite deployments.
>> 
>> Stig
>> 
>>> 
>>> B.R.,
>>> Yiu
>>> 
>>> On 3/20/12 4:47 PM, "Stig Venaas"<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm a little bit puzzled by how this document talks about DS-Lite.
>>>> Isn't this an entirely generic solution for tunneling IPv4 multicast
>>>> through an IPv6-only network?
>>>> 
>>>> Stig
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