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RFC 6559
Title: A Reliable Transport Mechanism for
PIM
Author: D. Farinacci, IJ. Wijnands,
S. Venaas, M. Napierala
Status: Experimental
Stream: IETF
Date: March 2012
Mailbox: dino@cisco.com,
ice@cisco.com,
stig@cisco.com,
mnapierala@att.com
Pages: 29
Characters: 70159
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-pim-port-09.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6559.txt
This document defines a reliable transport mechanism for the PIM
protocol for transmission of Join/Prune messages. This eliminates
the need for periodic Join/Prune message transmission and processing.
The reliable transport mechanism can use either TCP or SCTP as the
transport protocol. This document defines an Experimental Protocol
for the Internet community.
This document is a product of the Protocol Independent Multicast Working Group of the IETF.
EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the
Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any
kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
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