Re: [pim] STD 83, RFC 7761 on Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)

William Atwood <william.atwood@concordia.ca> Sat, 12 March 2016 02:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pim] STD 83, RFC 7761 on Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
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At last!

My felicitations to all who contributed to making this happen: the
original authors, the revisers, the PIM chairs, those who submitted
errata, and those who responded to the survey that made promotion to
full standard possible.

  Bill

On 11/03/2016 7:05 PM, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
>
>         STD 83        
>         RFC 7761
>
>         Title:      Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse 
>                     Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised) 
>         Author:     B. Fenner, M. Handley,
>                     H. Holbrook, I. Kouvelas,
>                     R. Parekh, Z. Zhang,
>                     L. Zheng
>         Status:     Standards Track
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       March 2016
>         Mailbox:    fenner@arista.com, 
>                     m.handley@cs.ucl.ac.uk, 
>                     holbrook@arista.com,
>                     kouvelas@arista.com, 
>                     riparekh@cisco.com,
>                     zzhang@juniper.net, 
>                     vero.zheng@huawei.com
>         Pages:      137
>         Characters: 295255
>         Obsoletes:  RFC 4601
>         See Also:   STD 83
>
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-pim-rfc4601bis-06.txt
>
>         URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7761
>
>         DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7761
>
> 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 it
> optionally creates shortest-path trees per source.
>
> This document obsoletes RFC 4601 by replacing it, addresses the
> errata filed against it, removes the optional (*,*,RP), PIM Multicast
> Border Router features and authentication using IPsec that lack
> sufficient deployment experience (see Appendix A), and moves the PIM
> specification to Internet Standard.
>
> This document is a product of the Protocols for IP Multicast Working Group of the IETF.
>
> This is now an Internet Standard.
>
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