IP Multicast Specifications

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 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 (source-specific multicast [SSM] include and exclude mode)
• 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, Source Address Selection for Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol (SSM include and exclude mode)
• RFC 3618, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
• RFC 3810, Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2)
• RFC 3973, Protocol Independent Multicast—Dense Mode (PIM-DM)
• RFC 4364, BGP/MPLS IP VPNs
• RFC 4601, Protocol Independent Multicast—Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-pim-sm-bsr-05.txt, Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for PIM Sparse Mode (expired August 2005) (no support for draft’s scoping mechanism)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3-11.txt, Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (expired April 2004)
• Internet draft draft-raggarwa-l3vpn-2547-mvpn-00.txt, Base Specification for Multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs, Section 2 (expired December 2004)
• Internet draft draft-rosen-vpn-mcast-07.txt, Multicast in MPLS/BGP VPNs, data MDTs only (expired April 2004)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-ssm-arch-06.txt, Source-Specific Multicast for IP (expired March 2005)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-mboned-ssm232-08.txt, Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8 (expired September 2004)
• Internet draft draft-holbrook-idmr-igmpv3-ssm-07.txt, Using IGMPv3 and MLDv2 for Source-Specific Multicast (expired December 2004)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-02.txt, Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs (expired September 2007)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-bgp-03.txt, BGP Encodings for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs (expired April 2007)
• Internet draft draft-raggarwa-l3vpn-2547-mvpn-00.txt, Base Specification for Multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs (expired December 2004)

  Note: The implementation of the Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) is based on a series of expired Internet drafts, as are all current implements of DVMRP. None are based on RFC 1075, Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol.

To access Internet RFCs and drafts, go to the IETF Web site at http://www.ietf.org.