The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Explicit RPF Vector' (draft-ietf-pim-explicit-rpf-vector-09.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Protocols for IP Multicast Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Alia Atlas and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pim-explicit-rpf-vector/ Technical Summary For some applications, it might be useful to have a way to specify the explicit path along which the PIM join is propagated. This document defines a new Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) Vector TLV to build multicast trees via an explicit path sent in the PIM join. Working Group Summary: There was several comments on the mailing list during the working group last call. All comments have been addressed in this latest draft. Document Quality: At least one vendor (Cisco) has indicted that they will implement the functionality documented in this draft. Personnel: Mike McBride is the document shepherd Alvaro Retana is the Area Director.
