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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Updated by:

RFC 8736, RFC 9436

Authors:

M. Handley
I. Kouvelas
T. Speakman
L. Vicisano

Stream:

IETF

Source:

pim (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5015

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Abstract

This document discusses Bidirectional PIM (BIDIR-PIM), a variant of PIM Sparse-Mode that builds bidirectional shared trees connecting multicast sources and receivers. Bidirectional trees are built using a fail-safe Designated Forwarder (DF) election mechanism operating on each link of a multicast topology. With the assistance of the DF, multicast data is natively forwarded from sources to the Rendezvous-Point (RP) and hence along the shared tree to receivers without requiring source-specific state. The DF election takes place at RP discovery time and provides the route to the RP, thus eliminating the requirement for data-driven protocol events. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.