Protocol Independent Multicast (pim)

Last Modified: 2006-07-17

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Chair(s):

  • Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com>

  • Mike McBride <mmcbride@cisco.com>

    Routing Area Director(s):

  • Ross Callon <rcallon@juniper.net>
  • Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>

    Routing Area Advisor:

  • Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>

    Mailing Lists:

    General Discussion: pim@ietf.org
    To Subscribe: http://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pim/
    Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/pim/index.html

    Description of Working Group:

    The Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Working Group is chartered to
    standardize and promote the Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2
    (PIMv2), Sparse Mode and Dense Mode, as a scalable, efficient and
    robust
    multicast routing protocol, capable of supporting thousands of groups,
    different types of multicast applications, and all major underlying
    layer-2 subnetwork technologies. The working group will decide if
    there
    is a need  for any follow on work or version 3 of the protocol.

    This working group will act as a consultant to any PIM-over-Foo
    proposals, including but not limited to PIM-over-ATM, using PIM for
    multiprotocol label switching, and PIM-over-UDLR links.


    Documents:

    1) PIM-SM v2 specification (standards track)

        This document is a specification for Sparse Mode Protocol
        Independent Multicast.

    2) PIM-DM v2 speficication (standards track)

        This document is a specification for Dense Mode Protocol
        Independent Multicast.

    3) PIM MIB (standards track)

        This document contains the MIB definitions for PIMv2.

    Goals and Milestones:

    Done  Hold the first Working Group meeting and discuss the charter and the state of progress on the chartered items.
    Done  Update the PIM-DM version 2 Internet-draft. Go to WG last call. Submision to IESG for considerations as proposed standard.
    Done  Resubmit the latest PIM-SM version 2 specification to IESG for consideration as a proposed standard RFC
    Done  Submit PIM-SM Applicability Statements
    Done  Submit PIMv2 MIB to IESG for consideration as proposed standard.
    Done  Submit updated PIM-SM and PIM-DM internet-drafts, clarifying any inconsistencies or ambiguities in the previous drafts.
    Done  Submit PIM-SM version 2 and PIM-DM version 2 specifications to IESG for consideration as Draft Standards.
    Mar 2005  Submit PIMv2 MIB to IESG for consideration as draft standard.

    Internet-Drafts:

    Bi-directional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-PIM) (96825 bytes)
    Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised) (332015 bytes)
    Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for PIM (95023 bytes)
    Protocol Independent Multicast MIB (159953 bytes)
    PIM Sparse-Mode IETF Proposed Standard Requirements Analysis (17036 bytes)
    The RPF Vector TLV (17819 bytes)
    Format for using TLVs in PIM messages (15417 bytes)
    PIM Bootstrap Router MIB (40097 bytes)

    Request For Comments:

    Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (Revised) (RFC 3973) (136708 bytes)
    Anycast-RP Using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) (RFC 4610) (22490 bytes)
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