Source-Specific Multicast for IP

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 19
Abstract: IP version 4 (IPv4) addresses in the 232/8 (232.0.0.0 to 232.255.255.255) range are designated as source-specific multicast (SSM) destination addresses and are reserved for use by source-specific applications and protocols. For IP version 6 (IPv6), the address prefix FF3x::/32 is reserved for source-specific multicast use. This document defines an extension to the Internet network service that applies to datagrams sent to SSM addresses and defines the host and router requirements to support this extension. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date: 2006-08-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC4607
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4607
Author(s): Hugh Holbrook
Brad Cain
Keyword(s): IPv4, SSM, IPv6

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IETF RFC 791 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1112 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2401 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2464 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3306 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3307 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3376 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3513 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3810 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 4301 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 4601 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 4604 [Active*]

Bibliographic Reference(s)

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses . EXTERNAL
Green, M. "Method and System of Multicast Routing for Groups with a Single Transmitter." United States Patent Number 5,517,494. EXTERNAL
R. Perlman, C-Y. Lee, A. Ballardie, J. Crowcroft, Z. Wang, T. Maufer, C. Diot, and M. Green, "Simple Multicast: A Design for Simple, Low-Overhead Multicast", Work in Progress, October 1999. EXTERNAL
Holbrook, H., and Cheriton, D. "Explicitly Requested Source-Specific Multicast: EXPRESS support for Large- scale Single-source Applications." Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '99, Cambridge, MA, September 1999. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1075 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2236 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2365 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2434 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2710 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2771 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3678 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3973 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4007 [Active*]

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IETF RFC 4604 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5740 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5771 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7761 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8085 [Active*]
SMPTE ST 2059-2:2015 [Superseded]