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RFC 3446: Anycast Rendevous Point (RP) mechanism using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)

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This document describes a mechanism to allow for an arbitrary number of Rendevous Points (RPs) per group in a single shared-tree Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) domain. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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Document ID
RFC3446
Published
January 2003
Authors
D. Kim; D. Meyer; H. Kilmer; D. Farinacci
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
ops
Pages
7
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