Re: [pim] RFC 8364 on PIM Flooding Mechanism (PFM) and Source Discovery (SD)
Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Thu, 29 March 2018 21:06 UTC
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From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
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Subject: Re: [pim] RFC 8364 on PIM Flooding Mechanism (PFM) and Source Discovery (SD)
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Cool. Congratulations to all the authors.
Would love to see notes about running product release code!
cheers
toerless
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 04:28:56PM -0700, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
>
>
> RFC 8364
>
> Title: PIM Flooding Mechanism (PFM) and
> Source Discovery (SD)
> Author: IJ. Wijnands,
> S. Venaas,
> M. Brig,
> A. Jonasson
> Status: Experimental
> Stream: IETF
> Date: March 2018
> Mailbox: ice@cisco.com,
> stig@cisco.com,
> michael.brig@mda.mil,
> anders@jomac.se
> Pages: 18
> Characters: 44640
> Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
>
> I-D Tag: draft-ietf-pim-source-discovery-bsr-12.txt
>
> URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8364
>
> DOI: 10.17487/RFC8364
>
> Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) uses a
> Rendezvous Point (RP) and shared trees to forward multicast packets
> from new sources. Once Last-Hop Routers (LHRs) receive packets from
> a new source, they may join the Shortest Path Tree (SPT) for the
> source for optimal forwarding. This document defines a new mechanism
> that provides a way to support PIM-SM without the need for PIM
> registers, RPs, or shared trees. Multicast source information is
> flooded throughout the multicast domain using a new generic PIM
> Flooding Mechanism (PFM). This allows LHRs to learn about new
> sources without receiving initial data packets.
>
> This document is a product of the Protocols for IP Multicast Working Group of the IETF.
>
>
> EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the
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> kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
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- [pim] RFC 8364 on PIM Flooding Mechanism (PFM) an… rfc-editor
- Re: [pim] RFC 8364 on PIM Flooding Mechanism (PFM… Toerless Eckert
- Re: [pim] RFC 8364 on PIM Flooding Mechanism (PFM… James H. Nguyen