Re: mboned: RE: [magma] suggestion for simplifying IGMPV3/MLDV2 to discard EXCLUDEmode

On Jun 9, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Hitoshi Asaeda wrote:

>
> An initial interface state of each host is (m, INCLUDE, NULL).
> When the host changes the state (m, INCLUDE, s1) (due to (m,s1) join),
> it sends ALLOW(m,s1), not TO_IN(m,s1), because the host's initial
> filter mode has been INCLUDE.

Well, one could believe that there is no initial state.
or there is "NULL" state.

I don't find anything in the RFC that claims there is any initial state.
In 3.2 is says:
    At most one record per multicast-address exists for a given  
interface.

which to me means there might not be any state.
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