RFC 1112:Host Extensions for IP Multicasting
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... group may be permanent or transient. A permanent group has a well-known, administratively assigned IP address. It is the address, ...


... hosts on the total Internet. The addresses of other well-known, permanent groups are to be published in "Assigned Numbers". ...


... host group addresses might be mapped to the well-known local address of an IP multicast router; ...



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