This Supplement describes the technical guidelines for the deployment of IP multicast technologies for IPTV content delivery. The deployment guidelines identify the technical issues and considerations regarding the capabilities of IP multicast from the perspective of supporting the IPTV services.
3.1......... Terms defined elsewhere
3.2......... Terms defined in this Supplement
7 IP multicast capabilities and issues related to IPTV content delivery
7.1......... Multicast data delivery
7.2......... Multicast group management
8 Deployment guidelines for data delivery
8.1......... IP multicast models for IPTV
8.1.1...... Any source multicast
8.1.2...... Source-specific multicast
8.2......... Multicast routing protocols
8.3......... Routing policy for IPTV multicast interoperability
8.3.1...... Topology requirements
9 Deployment guidelines for group management
9.1......... IPTV multicast address management
9.1.1...... IP multicast address transition
9.1.2...... Control of users’ multicast address
9.1.3...... IPTV channel domain name management function for IPTV service providers
9.1.4...... IPTV multicast address allocation
9.2.1...... Different versions of IGMP and MLD
9.2.2...... Transparent IGMP snooping
9.2.4...... Fast leave / immediate leave
9.3......... IPTV multicast user management
10 Deployment guidelines for QoS control
10.1....... Types of IPTV multicast QoS
10.2....... End-to-end multicast QoS guarantee policy
10.2.1.... Inbound/outbound QoS policy
10.2.2.... Policing of multicast & unicast traffic based on contract
10.3....... QoS-aware topology for IPTV multicast service
10.3.1.... Optimal RP positioning and RP redundancy
10.3.2.... Load balancing of IPTV multicast
10.3.3.... Multiple multicast trees of IPTV multicast
10.5....... Quality measurement of IPTV services
11 Deployment guidelines for security
11.1....... Rendezvous Point security
11.2....... PIM router security
11.3....... Last mile PIM router security
11.4....... Security policy over multicast exchange peers