Capwap Mailing List: Question on CAPWAP's use of multicast for IPv6

[Pat Calhoun (pacalhou) (pcalhoun]

All,

During the IETF Last Call and IESG Review, we added support for IPv6
multicast. I created issue 202 for this, and posted the proposed text to
the list. However, IANA has asked that we confirm the request is valid.
Specifically, IANA's question is:

<iana's question>
Before we assign this document's IPv6 multicast address, can you confirm
that the address should come from the Variable Scope block? We generally
expect to see requests for IPv4 Local Network Control Block addresses
accompanied by requests for the corresponding IPv6 Link-Local Scope
address (e.g., the LL-MANET-Routers addresses 224.0.0.109 and
FF02:0:0:0:0:0:0:6D registered by [RFC-ietf-manet-iana-07.txt]). In
addition, earlier versions of this document appear to have requested a
Link-Local Scope address. 

</iana's question>

The current IANA considerations text reads:

<current spec text>
   This document requires a new organization local multicast address
   called the "All ACs multicast address" from the Variable Scope IPv6
   multicast address registry [to be removed upon publication
   http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses]. The new
   multicast address is to be inserted in <xref target="AC Discovery"/>.
</current spec text>

Could someone please confirm?

PatC