I-D ACTION:draft-fair-ipdvb-ar-02.txt (repost)

[Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>]

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Gorry Fairhurst

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	Title		: Address Resolution for IP datagrams over MPEG-2 networks
	Author(s)	: G. Fairhurst, et al.
	Filename	: draft-fair-ipdvb-ar-02.txt
	Pages		: 17
	Date		: 2004-10-21
	
This document describes the current mechanisms to bind IPv4/IPv6
     addresses and flows to MPEG-2 Transport Streams (TS). For MPEG-2
     systems to become true subnetworks of the general Internet,
     methods are required to signal IPv4/v6 addresses to the link
     receivers and transmitters; this is known as Address Resolution
     (AR), or Neighbour Discovery (ND). Although AR is often associated
     with Ethernet [RFC803], it is essential to the operation of any
     L2 network. In MPEG-2 networks, address resolution is a three level
     process: the IP address is resolved to a NPA/MAC address, then
     associated with a Packet ID (PID) and finally to a specific
     transmission multiplex. Address resolution complements the higher
     layer resource discovery tools that are used to advertise IP
     sessions. In this document the different mechanisms used for
     address resolution for MPEG-2 are reviewed and their compliance
     to AR requirements established.

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