RFC3138

Network Working Group D. Meyer Request for Comments: 3138 Sprint Category: Informational June 2001

                 Extended Assignments in 233/8

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Abstract

This memo provides describes the mapping of the GLOP addresses corresponding to the private AS space.

Introduction

RFC 2770 RFC2770 describes an experimental policy for use of the class D address space using 233/8. The technique described there maps 16 bits of Autonomous System number (AS) into the middle two octets of 233/8 to yield a /24. While this technique has been successful, the assignments are inefficient in those cases in which a /24 is too small or the user doesn't have its own AS.

RFC 1930 RFC1930 defines the private AS space to be 64512 through 65535. This memo expands on RFC 2770 to allow routing registries to assign multicast addresses from the GLOP space corresponding to the RFC 1930 private AS space. This space will be referred to as the EGLOP (Extended GLOP) address space.

This memo is a product of the Multicast Deployment Working Group (MBONED) in the Operations and Management Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force. Submit comments to <[email protected]> or the authors.

The terms "Specification Required", "Expert Review", "IESG Approval", "IETF Consensus", and "Standards Action", are used in this memo to refer to the processes described in RFC2434. The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, MAY, OPTIONAL, REQUIRED, RECOMMENDED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT are to be interpreted as defined in RFC 2119 RFC2119.

Overview

http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses defines a mechanism for assignment of multicast addresses that are generally for use in network control applications. It is envisioned that those addresses assigned from the EGLOP space (233.252.0.0 - 233.255.255.255) will be used by applications that cannot use Administratively Scoped Addressing RFC2365, GLOP Addressing RFC2770, or Source Specific Multicast (Source Specific Multicast, or SSM, is an extension of IP Multicast in which traffic is forwarded to receivers from only those multicast sources for which the receivers have explicitly expressed interest, and is primarily targeted at one-to-many (broadcast) applications).

Assignment Criteria

Globally scoped IPv4 multicast addresses in the EGLOP space are assigned by a Regional Registry (RIR). An applicant MUST, as per [IANA], show that the request cannot be satisfied using Administratively Scoped addressing RFC2365, GLOP addressing RFC2770, or SSM. The fine-grained assignment policy is left to the assigning RIR.

Security Considerations

The assignment scheme described in this document does not effect the security properties of the the single source or any source multicast service models.

Acknowledgments

Kurt Kayser, Mirjam Kuehne, Michelle Schipper and Randy Bush provided many insightful comments on earlier versions of this document.

Author's Address

David Meyer Sprint 12502 Sunrise Valley Dr Reston VA, 20191

EMail: [email protected]

References

[IANA] http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses

RFC1930 Hawkinson J. and T. Bates, "Guidelines for

               creation, selection, and registration of an
               Autonomous System (AS)", RFC 1930, March 1996.

RFC2026 Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process --

               Revision 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.

RFC2119 Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to

               Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
               March 1997.

RFC2365 Meyer, D., "Administratively Scoped IP Multicast",

               RFC 2365, July 1998.

RFC2770 Meyer, D. and P. Lothberg, "GLOP Addressing in

               233/8", RFC 2770, February 2000.

RFC2780 Bradner, S. and V. Paxson, "IANA Allocation

               Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol
               and Related Headers", BCP 37, RFC 2780, March
               2000.

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