Is IPv6 multicast routable over the Internet?

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Published on 2012-05-29T21:11:29Z Indexed on 2012/06/02 16:43 UTC
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As I understand it, public IPv6 addresses allocated by the IANA will have the prefix 2000::/3. These ip addresses will be routable through the Internet.

IPv6 multicast addresses on the other side are prefixed FF00::/8.

So my understanding is that the ipv6 multicast addresses won't be routable through the internet. I am right? If so, is there any way to do one-to-many ip routing over the Internet in IPv6?

Thanks!

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