Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)

This specification has been revised 4 times since RFC 2117 (1997). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 2117 (1997)
  2. RFC 2362 (1998)
  3. RFC 4601 (2006)
  4. RFC 5059 (2008)
  5. RFC 7761 (2016)

Current versions — implement against these

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 7761 (March 2016).