Subject: [dnssd] Update to draft-otis-dnssd-mdns-xlink

From: Douglas Otis <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:45:15 -0800

Dear DNSSD WG,

The draft-otis-dnssd-mdns-xlink has been updated to mention SCTP is not structured to support multicast, although it supports UDP.  As was stated in the wireless overview, some Wifi implementations convert multicast to unicast.  802.11 has replaced 802.3 as the typical network media for most devices.  It seems plausible for mDNS to make use of SCTP/UDP encapsulation with some changes to the protocol.  After all, UDP in combination with 802.11 remains problematic.  Current market solutions make use of VLANs which also entail specialized equipment.  

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-otis-dnssd-mdns-xlink-01

Regards,
Douglas Otis