A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Protocols for IP Multicast Working Group of the IETF. Title : PIM flooding mechanism and source discovery Authors : IJsbrand Wijnands Stig Venaas Michael Brig Anders Jonasson Filename : draft-ietf-pim-source-discovery-bsr-03.txt Pages : 12 Date : 2015-07-01 Abstract: PIM Sparse-Mode uses a Rendezvous Point (RP) and shared trees to forward multicast packets to Last Hop Routers (LHR). After the first packet is received by the LHR, the source of the multicast stream is learned and the Shortest Path Tree (SPT) can be joined. This draft proposes a solution to support PIM Sparse Mode (SM) without the need for PIM registers, RPs or shared trees. Multicast source information is flooded throughout the multicast domain using a new generic PIM flooding mechanism. This mechanism is defined in this document, and is modeled after the PIM Bootstrap Router protocol. By removing the need for RPs and shared trees, the PIM-SM procedures are simplified, improving router operations, management and making the protocol more robust. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pim-source-discovery-bsr/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-pim-source-discovery-bsr-03 A diff from the previous version is available at: https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-pim-source-discovery-bsr-03 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt