@misc{rfc4601, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 4601, howpublished = {RFC 4601}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC4601}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4601}, author = {Bill Fenner (ˢˣˠ) and Mark J. Handley and Isidor Kouvelas and Hugh Holbrook}, title = {{Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)}}, pagetotal = 150, year = 2006, month = aug, 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 optionally creates shortest-path trees per source. This document obsoletes RFC 2362, an Experimental version of PIM-SM. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }