@misc{rfc7761, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 7761, howpublished = {RFC 7761}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC7761}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7761}, author = {Bill Fenner (ˢˣˠ) and Mark J. Handley and Hugh Holbrook and Isidor Kouvelas and Rishabh Parekh and Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang and Lianshu Zheng}, title = {{Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)}}, pagetotal = 137, year = 2016, month = mar, abstract = {This document specifies Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM). PIM-SM is a multicast routing protocol that can use the underlying unicast routing information base or a separate multicast-capable routing information base. It builds unidirectional shared trees rooted at a Rendezvous Point (RP) per group, and it optionally creates shortest-path trees per source. This document obsoletes RFC 4601 by replacing it, addresses the errata filed against it, removes the optional (*,*,RP), PIM Multicast Border Router features and authentication using IPsec that lack sufficient deployment experience (see Appendix A), and moves the PIM specification to Internet Standard.}, }