RFC - 4601
Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
| Original: | ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc4601.txt |
|---|---|
| Authors: | B. Fenner [AT&T Labs - Research], M. Handley [UCL], H. Holbrook [Arastra], I. Kouvelas [Cisco] |
| Date: | August 2006 |
| Category: | Proposed Standard |
| Obsoletes: | |
|---|---|
| RFC-2362 | Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Obsoleted by RFC-4601prop) |
| Referred by: | 9 RFC |
| Refers to: | 17 RFC |
Status
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006).
Abstract
This document specifies Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM). PIM-SM is a multicast routing protocol that can use the underlying unicast routing information base or a separate multicast- capable routing information base. It builds unidirectional shared trees rooted at a Rendezvous Point (RP) per group, and optionally creates shortest-path trees per source.
This document obsoletes RFC 2362, an Experimental version of PIM-SM.
-
prepared by Miloslav Nic
- the founder of Zvon.org and Law-Ref.org
- the head of B.Sc. program Informatics and chemistry [in Czech]
- the founder of Lidem.org - Volby 2006 - parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic [in Czech]
- the chief consultant of the publishing house ICT Press
- and Pavel Srb, a student of B.Sc. program Informatics and chemistry