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

[Stig Venaas <[e-mail]>]

Congrats guys! I'm sure no one thought it would take that long. Thanks
authors and everyone else involved for your work. That includes Bill
too.

Stig


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> draft-parekh-pim-rfc4601bis-00 was published on May 24, 2011.
> The entire process took five whole years :-)
>
> As Bill said, thanks to everyone who contributed to this!
>
> Jeffrey
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pim [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of William Atwood
>> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 9:53 PM
>> Cc: [e-mail]
>> Subject: Re: [pim] STD 83, RFC 7761 on Protocol Independent Multicast -
>> Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
>>
>> 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, [e-mail] 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:    [e-mail],
>> >                     [e-mail],
>> >                     [e-mail],
>> >                     [e-mail],
>> >                     [e-mail],
>> >                     [e-mail],
>> >                     [e-mail]
>> >         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.
>> >
>> > STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet Standards Track
>> > protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and
>> suggestions
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