This IP provides address-based multicasting capabilities. By providing a mask together with the address, we can compactly represent a set of addresses to compare with the address map.
A question might be if we want to merge this functionality in the addr_decode module or keep it separate as is the case now. Integration of the addr_decode_napot with addr_decode was already a step in this direction, as the prior uses the same encoding for the address map as the multiaddr_decode module.
This IP provides address-based multicasting capabilities. By providing a mask together with the address, we can compactly represent a set of addresses to compare with the address map.
A question might be if we want to merge this functionality in the
addr_decodemodule or keep it separate as is the case now. Integration of theaddr_decode_napotwithaddr_decodewas already a step in this direction, as the prior uses the same encoding for the address map as themultiaddr_decodemodule.