@techreport{farinacci-bidir-pim-01, number = {draft-farinacci-bidir-pim-01}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farinacci-bidir-pim/01/}, author = {Dr. Deborah Estrin and Dino Farinacci}, title = {{Bi-Directional Shared Trees in PIM-SM}}, pagetotal = 13, year = 1999, month = jun, day = 18, abstract = {This proposal extends the PIM-SM {[}1{]} mechanism for multicast datagram forwarding. PIM-SM constructs and maintains uni-directional shared trees and uni-directional source trees. We describe how we can extend the elements of operation of sparse-mode PIM to support bi- directional shared trees.}, }