Protocol Independent Multicast (pim)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2006-07-17

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Tom Pusateri  <pusateri@bangj.com>
     Mike McBride  <mmcbride@cisco.com>

 Routing Area Director(s):
     Ross Callon  <rcallon@juniper.net>
     Bill Fenner  <fenner@research.att.com>

 Routing Area Advisor:
     Bill Fenner  <fenner@research.att.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:pim@ietf.org
     To Subscribe:      http://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pim/
     Archive:           http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/pim/index.html

Description of Working Group:

The Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Working Group is chartered to 
standardize and promote the Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 
(PIMv2), Sparse Mode and Dense Mode, as a scalable, efficient and 
robust 
multicast routing protocol, capable of supporting thousands of groups, 
different types of multicast applications, and all major underlying 
layer-2 subnetwork technologies. The working group will decide if 
there 
is a need  for any follow on work or version 3 of the protocol.

This working group will act as a consultant to any PIM-over-Foo 
proposals, including but not limited to PIM-over-ATM, using PIM for 
multiprotocol label switching, and PIM-over-UDLR links.


Documents:

 1) PIM-SM v2 specification (standards track)

    This document is a specification for Sparse Mode Protocol
    Independent Multicast.

 2) PIM-DM v2 speficication (standards track)

    This document is a specification for Dense Mode Protocol
    Independent Multicast.

 3) PIM MIB (standards track)

    This document contains the MIB definitions for PIMv2.

 Goals and Milestones:

   Done         Hold the first Working Group meeting and discuss the charter 
                and the state of progress on the chartered items. 

   Done         Update the PIM-DM version 2 Internet-draft. Go to WG last call. 
                Submision to IESG for considerations as proposed standard. 

   Done         Resubmit the latest PIM-SM version 2 specification to IESG for 
                consideration as a proposed standard RFC 

   Done         Submit PIM-SM Applicability Statements 

   Done         Submit PIMv2 MIB to IESG for consideration as proposed 
                standard. 

   Done         Submit updated PIM-SM and PIM-DM internet-drafts, clarifying 
                any inconsistencies or ambiguities in the previous drafts. 

   Done         Submit PIM-SM version 2 and PIM-DM version 2 specifications to 
                IESG for consideration as Draft Standards. 

   Mar 2005       Submit PIMv2 MIB to IESG for consideration as draft standard. 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
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Mar 2000 Oct 2005   <draft-ietf-pim-bidir-08.txt>
                Bi-directional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-PIM) 

Feb 2001 Jun 2006   <draft-ietf-pim-sm-bsr-09.txt>
                Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for PIM 

Jun 2002 Apr 2006   <draft-ietf-pim-mib-v2-06.txt>
                Protocol Independent Multicast MIB 

Aug 2006 Aug 2006   <draft-ietf-pim-bsr-mib-00.txt>
                PIM Bootstrap Router MIB 

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC3973 E    Jan 2005    Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): 
                       Protocol Specification (Revised) 

RFC4610 PS   Aug 2006    Anycast-RP Using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) 

RFC4601 PS   Aug 2006    Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): 
                       Protocol Specification (Revised) 

RFC4602 I    Aug 2006    Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) 
                       IETF Proposed Standard Requirements Analysis