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PIM Designated Router Load Balancing
RFC 8775

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2020-04-24
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC8775
2020-04-22
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8775, changed abstract to 'On a multi-access network, one of the PIM-SM (PIM Sparse Mode) …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8775, changed abstract to 'On a multi-access network, one of the PIM-SM (PIM Sparse Mode) routers is elected as a Designated Router.  One of the responsibilities of the Designated Router is to track local multicast listeners and forward data to these listeners if the group is operating in PIM-SM.  This document specifies a modification to the PIM-SM protocol that allows more than one of the PIM-SM routers to take on this responsibility so that the forwarding load can be distributed among multiple routers.', changed pages to 18, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2020-04-22, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2020-04-22
(System) RFC published