[pim] New PIM Charter and milestones

[Mike McBride <mmcbride at cisco.com>]

Here is a second pass at pimwg rechartering text. Please review. I added a 
'may' with BSR which 'may' satisfy Lenny's previous concern.

Description of Working Group:

The Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Working Group has completed the 
standardization of PIM with RFC 4601. The WG has determined there is 
additional work to be accomplished and is chartered to standardize 
extensions to RFC 4601 - Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 - Sparse 
Mode. These PIM extensions could involve multipoint label switching, 
reliability, resiliency, scalability, management, security and VPNs. 
Additional work on PIM-BIDIR and BSR may also be necessary. The working 
group will continue to specify the MIBs required for PIM and its 
enhancements. The PIM WG will further enhance RFC4601 as an even more 
scalable, efficient and robust multicast routing protocol, which is 
capable of supporting thousands of groups, different types of multicast 
applications, and all major underlying layer-2 subnetwork technologies. 
The working group will determine if a Version 3 of PIM is required.

Goals and Milestones:

Mar    2006     Ratify new WG charter and milestones
Jul    2006     Submit the BSR MIB as a Proposed Standard
Jul    2006     Develop a reliable pim specification
Jul    2006     Submit a generic TLV PIM Join Attribute Proposed Standard 
draft
Jul    2006     Submit RPF Vector (use of PIM Join Attribute) as a 
Proposed Standard
Jul    2006     Submit a mechanism to authenticate PIM link local messages 
using AH as Proposed Standard
Jul    2006     Submit an Informational PIM last hop threats document.

-mike

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