{"draft":"draft-ietf-pim-sm-v2-new-12","doc_id":"RFC4601","title":"Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)","authors":["B. Fenner","M. Handley","H. Holbrook","I. Kouvelas"],"format":["ASCII","PDF","HTML"],"page_count":"150","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Protocols for IP Multicast","abstract":"This document specifies Protocol Independent Multicast -\r\nSparse Mode (PIM-SM).  PIM-SM is a multicast routing protocol\r\nthat can use the underlying unicast routing information base\r\nor a separate multicast-capable routing information base.  It\r\nbuilds unidirectional shared trees rooted at a Rendezvous\r\nPoint (RP) per group, and optionally creates shortest-path\r\ntrees per source.\r\n\r\nThis document obsoletes RFC 2362, an Experimental version of\r\nPIM-SM.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"August 2006","keywords":["[PIM-SM|p]","routing","message","type","timers","flags"],"obsoletes":["RFC2362"],"obsoleted_by":["RFC7761"],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC5059","RFC5796","RFC6226"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4601","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc4601"}