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The Multicast Address-Set Claim (MASC) Protocol

Author(s) -

Pavlin Radoslavov,

Deborah Estrin,

Ramesh Govindan,

Mark Handley,

S. Sachin Kumar,

Dave Thaler

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.17487/rfc2909

Subject(s) - multicast , computer network , computer science , inter domain , router , domain (mathematical analysis) , protocol independent multicast , set (abstract data type) , node (physics) , protocol (science) , distributed computing , source specific multicast , xcast , internet group management protocol , mathematics , medicine , programming language , engineering , mathematical analysis , structural engineering , alternative medicine , pathology

This document describes the Multicast Address-Set Claim (MASC) protocol which can be used for inter-domain multicast address set allocation. MASC is used by a node (typically a router) to claim and allocate one or more address prefixes to that node's domain. While a domain does not necessarily need to allocate an address set for hosts in that domain to be able to allocate group addresses, allocating an address set to the domain does ensure that inter-domain group- specific distribution trees will be locally-rooted, and that traffic will be sent outside the domain only when and where external receivers exist.

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