IP Multicast Standards
The protocols related to IP multicast are defined in the following documents:
- RFC 1112, Host Extensions for IP Multicasting (defines IGMP Version 1)
- RFC 2236, Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2
- RFC 2327, SDP: Session Description Protocol
- RFC 2362, Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification
- RFC 2365, Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
- RFC 2547, BGP/MPLS VPNs
- RFC 2710, Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
- RFC 2858, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
- RFC 2974, Session Announcement Protocol
- RFC 3208, PGM Reliable Transport Protocol Specification
- RFC 3376, Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3 (SSM include mode only)
- RFC 3446, Anycast Rendezvous Point (RP) Mechanism using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
- RFC 3569, An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)
- RFC 3590 (SSM include mode only), Source Address Selection for Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol
- RFC 3618, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
- Internet draft draft-ietf-pim-sm-bsr-03.txt, Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for PIM Sparse Mode (expired August 2003)
- Internet draft draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3-11.txt, Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (expired April 2004)
- Internet draft draft-rosen-vpn-mcast-06.txt, Multicast in MPLS/BGP VPNs, Option 2 (expired April 2004)
- Internet draft draft-ietf-pim-sm-v2-new-10.txt, Protocol Independent Multicast—Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised) (expires January 2005)
- Internet draft draft-ietf-pim-dm-new-v2-05.txt, Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 Dense Mode Specification (expires December 2004)
- Internet draft draft-ietf-ssm-arch-06.txt, Source-Specific Multicast for IP (expires March 2005)
- Internet draft draft-ietf-mboned-ssm232-08.txt, Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8 (expires September 2004)
- Internet draft draft-holbrook-idmr-igmpv3-ssm-07.txt, Using IGMPv3 and MLDv2 for Source-Specific Multicast (expires December 2004)
- Internet draft draft-raggarwa-l3vpn-2547-mvpn-00.txt, Base Specification for Multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs (expires December 2004)
To access Internet RFCs and drafts, go to the IETF Web site at
http://www.ietf.org.