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PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

H. Holbrook
B. Cain

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IETF

Source:

ssm (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4607

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Abstract

IP version 4 (IPv4) addresses in the 232/8 (232.0.0.0 to232.255.255.255) range are designated as source-specific multicast(SSM) destination addresses and are reserved for use bysource-specific applications and protocols. For IP version 6 (IPv6),the address prefix FF3x::/32 is reserved for source-specific multicastuse. This document defines an extension to the Internet networkservice that applies to datagrams sent to SSM addresses and definesthe host and router requirements to support this extension. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.