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This draft is a work item of the Border Gateway Multicast Protocol Working Group of
the IETF.
Title : Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol
Specification
Author(s) : D. Thaler, D. Estrin, D. Meyer
Filename : draft-ietf-bgmp-spec-02.txt
Pages : 48
Date : 29-Nov-00
This document describes BGMP, a protocol for inter-domain multicast
routing. BGMP builds shared trees for active multicast groups, and
allows receiver domains to build source-specific, inter-domain,
distribution branches where needed. Building upon concepts from CBT and
PIM-SM, BGMP requires that each multicast group be associated with a
single root (in BGMP it is referred to as the root domain). BGMP
assumes that at any point in time, different ranges of the class D space
are associated (e.g., with MASC [MASC]) 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.
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