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IETF RFC 3913
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Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification

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IETF
Doc Type
Specification
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41
Abstract
This document describes the Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP), a protocol for inter-domain multicast routing. BGMP builds shared trees for active multicast groups, and optionally allows receiver domains to build source-specific, inter-domain, distribution branches where needed. BGMP natively supports "source-specific multicast" (SSM). To also support "any-source multicast" (ASM), BGMP requires that each multicast group be associated with a single root (in BGMP it is referred to as the root domain). It requires that different ranges of the multicast address space are associated (e.g., with Unicast-Prefix-Based Multicast addressing) with different domains. Each of these domains then becomes the root of the shared domain-trees for all groups in its range. Multicast participants will generally receive better multicast service if the session initiator's address allocator selects addresses from its own domain's part of the space, thereby causing the root domain to be local to at least one of the session participants. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
Publication Date
2004-09-01
Status Note
Historic
DOI
10.17487/RFC3913
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3913
Author(s)
Dave Thaler
Keyword(s)
SSM
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Bibliographic Reference(s)

  • Pusateri, T., "Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol", Work in Progress, October 2003. EXTERNAL
  • Adams, A., Nicholas, J. and W. Siadak, "Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (Revised)", Work in Progress, September 2003. EXTERNAL
  • Thaler, D., "Unicast-Prefix-based IPv4 Multicast Addresses", Work in Progress, August 2004. EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 1584 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 1771 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 1966 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2189 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 2362 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2858 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 3513 [Superseded*]
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