Talk:Internet Group Management Protocol/Archive 1

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Archive 1

RFCs

This page appears to be bolted together from bits of RFCs.

This appears to be OK, given the terms of the RFC copyright, a copy of which is [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc-editor/rfc-copyright-story.html here]. Here is the appropriate paragraph:

This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than English.

They also require acknowledgment. Is this GFDL-compatible?

This license is not GFDL-compatible, or Free at all; it limits the types of derivative works that may be created. Furthermore, many of the RFCs are under a different, even more restrictive license: "Distribution of this memo is unlimited."; that "license" does not allow modification of any kind.

However, I think it should be discussed here. The Anome

All licensing aside, I think it looks horrendous and isn't very reader-friendly. --Fylke

I agree with Fylke: I could just as well read the RFCs. A wikipedia article should provide an overview, not be 2nd level documentation for an RFC. -- Ralph

I just tagged the article with {{Technical}}. I agree it needs a more general description rather than excerpts from RFCs. -- Hawaiian717 18:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Changed tag to {{Technical (expert)}} as it has not been looked at seriously and I don't understand anything after about the 3rd sentence. Davidkinnen 14:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Too technical for most readers to understand?

This page has been tagged as being too technical for most readers to understand since March of 2009, but it does not seem too technical to me. Unless someone objects, I am going to wait seven days and then remove the tag. Guy Macon (talk) 03:09, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Removing tag now. Guy Macon (talk) 18:31, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Out of curiosity

Does anybody have an idea why firewalling 224.0.0.22 on Windows 7 Pro (using Comodo) should result in inability to log into Windows account if the ethernet cable is connected?

Seems odd that such a minor thing should cause complete system hangup. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.234.47.205 (talk) 17:28, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

I just wanted to note that I also have IGMP packets going to this ip address, it is windows related. More information can be found via google "igmp 224.0.0.22" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.103.54.112 (talk) 13:58, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Number of Users

I came to this article to find if the technology is widely-used. Does anyone know the popularity of this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.70.65.16 (talk) 04:31, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

As a matter of original reseach I can report that it is quite widely available. IGMP is implemented in the network stack of all major operating systems. IGMP is widely available in IP routers and IGMP snooping is included in the feature set of most modern managed switches. -—Kvng 00:11, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

IGMP Snooping

the article needs a section about IGMP Snooping —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.205.136.19 (talk) 05:24, 21 August 2006

IGMP snooping has its own article. -—Kvng 00:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Packet structure

The Packet structure section is incomplete. Before working to clean it up and complete it, I'm interested in a reading from other editors as to whether this level of on-the-wire detail is important for communications protocol articles. -—Kvng 18:03, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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