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Internet Engineering Task Force Inter-Domain Multicast Routing WG
INTERNET-DRAFT W. Fenner
draft-ietf-idmr-membership-reports-02.txt February 25, 1999
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Domain Wide Multicast Group Membership Reports
Status of this Memo
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Abstract
When running a multi-level multicast routing protocol, upper levels
need to know about group memberships in lower levels in a protocol-
independent fashion. Domain Wide Multicast Group Membership
Reports allow this information to be learned in a fashion similar
to IGMP[Fenn97] at the domain level.
This document is a product of the IDMR working group within the Internet
Engineering Task Force. Comments are solicited and should be addressed
to the working group's mailing list at idmr@cs.ucl.ac.uk and/or the
author.
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1. Introduction
Domain-Wide Multicast Group Membership Reports (DWRs) are a group mem-
bership protocol at the domain level. When using a hierarchical multi-
cast routing protocol [Thya94,Estr98], the inter-domain protocol needs
to learn of group memberships inside domains. Although some intra-
domain routing protocols can provide this information easily to the
domain border routers, some cannot. DWRs specify a protocol-independent
manner to learn group membership inside a domain.
This document specifies the DWR protocol, as used by border routers and
interior routers. It specifies a behavior that can be used with any
intra-domain protocol, along with optimizations for certain intra-domain
protocols, and a transition scheme so that all interior routers need not
be updated.
1.1. Conventions
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [Bradner97].
Tunable timer values are named inside square brackets, e.g. [Robustness
Variable]. These values are described in section 7.
2. Packet Format
DWR packets are sent as UDP packets (IP protocol #17). The UDP destina-
tion port is 644. The UDP checksum SHOULD be calculated on transmis-
sion. However, packets without checksums MUST be accepted. Received
packets with incorrect checksums MUST be dropped. The UDP payload is as
follows:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| MBZ | DWR Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type-specific header ...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Data ...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
2.1. MBZ: 24 bits
Must be zeroed on transmission and ignored on reception.
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2.2. DWR Type: 8 bits
The following DWR types are defined:
|
Type | Name
-----+-------------------------------------
0x00 | Domain-Wide Query
0x01 | Domain-Wide Membership Report
0x02 | Domain-Wide Leave
0x03 | Non-authoritative Domain-Wide Leave
2.3. Type-specific header
The only type-specific header defined is for the Domain-Wide Query;
its header contains:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Response Time | Query Interval| Robustness |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| MBZ | Priority |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
2.3.1. Response Time
The time, in units of 10ms, allowed for responses to this query.
Varying this field allows tuning the burstiness of DWR traffic at
the cost of higher latencies.
2.3.2. Query Interval
The time, in units of 10 seconds, between periodic Query messages
from this Querier.
2.3.3. Robustness
The Robustness variable, described later. Along with the Query
Interval, conveying this data in the Query allows exact calculation
of Querier timeouts and allows interior routers to calculate the
group membership lifetime.
2.3.4. Priority
The configured priority of this border router for Querier Election
purposes. If no value is configured, the default value is 128.
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Lower values are better, i.e. more likely to be selected as the
querier.
2.3.5. MBZ
This field must be zeroed on transmission and ignored on reception.
There is no type-specific header for Report and Leave messages; the data
field starts immediately after the checksum.
2.4. Data
The remainder of the packet consists of a series of groups and
options. Each field in the rest of the packet is either a group
address:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Group Address |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
or an option header:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| option number | MBZ |S|I| Option Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Option Data...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The two forms may be told apart because option numbers are assigned
in the range [0,223], the first byte of an IPv4 group address is in
the range [224,239], and the first byte of an IPv6 group address is
255.
2.4.1. Data Description
2.4.1.1. Group Address
The group address being reported or queried.
2.4.1.2. Option Number
The number of the option.
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2.4.1.3. MBZ
Must be zeroed on transmission and ignored on reception.
2.4.1.4. I
Ignore this packet or group for group membership purposes if
the option is not recognized.
2.4.1.5. S
Ignore this packet or group for report suppression purposes
(on Reports or Leaves) or for reply purposes (on Queries) if
the option is not recognized.
2.4.1.6. Option Length
The number of words, excluding the initial word, of option
data following the option header.
2.4.1.7. Option Data
Option Length words of data.
2.4.2. Option Processing
Options which precede any group addresses are called Global
Options. Options which follow a group address are associated
with that group address and are called Group Options. There
are two bits describing how to handle unsupported options.
2.4.2.1. The S bit
The S bit is used when processing Queries, Reports and Leaves
by interior routers. Groups with options attached should be
ignored as if they were not present if there are unrecognized
Group Options with the S bit set. Packets with Global Options
should be ignored as if they were not received if there are
unrecognized Global Options with the S bit set.
2.4.2.2. The I bit
The I bit is used when processing Reports and Leaves by border
routers. Groups with options attached should be ignored as if
they were not present if there are unrecognized Group Options
with the I bit set. Packets with Global Options should be
ignored as if they were not received if there are unrecognized
Global Options with the I bit set.
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2.4.3. Defined Options
2.4.3.1. Padding (option #0)
This option need not be handled specially by option
parsers; it may be left as an unrecognized option. The S
and I bits are both 0, so failing to recognize this
option does not affect the processing of the packet. The
length field may be 0, meaning there are 0 additional
words of data associated with the option. A non-zero
length field may be used with the padding option if addi-
tional padding is required.
Routers MUST interpret the S and I bits of Padding
options as though the option is not supported.
2.4.3.2. Group masks accepted/present (option #1)
This option may be used as a global option on a Query, to
indicate that all border routers understand the group
mask option in Report and Leave messages. This option
MUST only be sent when the Querier knows that all border
routers support it; in general this can only be by manual
configuration. In this use, the I and S bits are off.
When the most recent Query message contained the Group
masks accepted global option, a router may attach a group
masks present option to any group in its Report or Leave
messages. This option contains the following data:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 1 | MBZ |0|0| 1 for IPv4, 4 for IPv6 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Mask to go with group |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The data portion is a bitwise mask, to be applied to the
group to create a group range. (XXX should it be a mask
length? Are there still proposed address allocation
schemes which use noncontiguous masks?)
This usage also has the S and I bits turned off.
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2.4.3.3. Unicast-reply (option #2)
This option has the S and I bits turned off. If a query
is received with this option, the reply should be unicas-
ted to the source of the query. If the option carries a
unicast address, it is the address to be unicasted to.
If a unicast address is specified in the option, the
option MUST be ignored if the packet is not fully authen-
ticated using IPSEC[Atki95].
3. Message Descriptions
3.1. Domain-Wide Query
A Domain-Wide Query is sent periodically by one of the domain's
border routers. The default period is 5 minutes, and MUST be con-
figurable. Domain-Wide Query messages are sent to the well-known
Domain-Wide Query multicast group (224.0.255.254). This group is
in the range of addresses that are scoped to a single domain,
224.0.255.0 through 224.0.255.255.
A Domain-Wide Query with no additional data is a request for knowl-
edge of all multicast group memberships in the domain. The Domain-
Wide Query may be restricted by including groups or options in the
data portion of the packet. If group addresses or DWR options are
specified in the packet, the Query is restricted to those groups or
other options as specified in the packet.
3.2. Domain-Wide Report
A Domain-Wide Report is sent by a router in response to a Domain-
Wide Query message, or in response to the appearance of a new group
member in the domain. The latter messages are called "Unsolicited"
Domain-Wide Reports.
A Domain-Wide Report message includes a list of group memberships
and other options in the additional data portion of the packet.
3.3. Domain-Wide Leave
A Domain-Wide Leave is sent by a router when it knows that there
are no more members in the domain of a group or groups. The group
or groups listed in the additional data portion of the packet are
considered by the border routers to have no more members.
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3.4. Non-Authoritative Domain-Wide Leave
A Non-Authoritative Domain-Wide Leave is sent by a router when it
knows of no more members of the group but cannot be sure there are
no more members in the domain. Reception of a Domain-Wide Leave
causes the elected border router to send a Domain-Wide Query mes-
sage for the group(s) mentioned in the Non-Authoritative Domain-
Wide Leave message.
4. Interior Router Behavior
4.1. General Behavior
This section describes the general behavior of interior routers, or
of proxies running inside domains. Some of these behaviors may be
optimized when running multicast routing protocols with more cen-
tralized knowledge of group memberships inside the domain; these
optimizations will be described later.
If a router has not yet been upgraded to perform domain-wide
reports, a proxy may be placed on each of its connected networks.
This proxy must participate in the network's group membership pro-
tocol (e.g. IGMPv2[Fenn97]). For example, it may perform only the
duties of a Non-Querier router in IGMPv2, which allow it to pas-
sively learn all of the group members on a network. The proxy can
then respond to Domain-Wide Query messages just as the interior
router would.
4.1.1. Reception of Queries
All routers in the domain join the Domain-Wide Query well-known
multicast group. Upon reception of a Domain-Wide Query message, a
router sets a timer to a value randomly chosen from the range (0,
Response time] as specified in the packet. The Data section of the
Query should be saved to be used when the timer expires.
4.1.2. Transmission of Reports
Upon the expiration of a Domain-Wide Query timer, a router assem-
bles a packet containing the list of group memberships known to
this router via IGMP or other mechanism, excluding those that were
suppressed by previous reports, and sends this message to the
Domain-Wide Report well-known multicast group (224.0.255.253). If
the Domain-Wide Query contained a list of groups or options, the
Report should be restricted to those groups in the list in the
Query message.
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4.1.3. Reception of Reports
All routers in the domain join the Domain-Wide Report well-known
multicast group in order to perform suppression, as follows. Upon
reception of a Domain-Wide Report message, a router processes the
list of groups in the message. If the packet contains unrecognized
global options, the packet should be dropped and not processed if
any of the unrecognized options have their S bit set. For each
group, if the group has unrecognized options, the group should be
skipped if any of the unrecognized options have their S bit set.
Otherwise, if the router's Domain-Wide Query timer is running, it
SHOULD mark the group as having been suppressed and SHOULD NOT
report it when the Domain-Wide Query timer expires.
Routers MAY record the existence of this group membership in the
domain to be used for future suppression. This record MUST time
out after [Query Interval] * [Robustness Variable], and MUST be
canceled by reception of a Domain-Wide Leave or Non-Authoritative
Domain-Wide Leave message mentioning this group.
4.1.4. Reception of Leaves
Upon the reception of a Domain-Wide Leave, a router should process
the list of groups in the message. For each group, if the group
has unrecognized options, it should be skipped if any of the unrec-
ognized options have their S bit set. Otherwise, the router should
remove its record of the existence of another group membership in
the domain.
4.1.5. Transmission of Leaves
A router sends a Non-Authoritative Leave when it no longer knows of
any members of the group. This message MAY be suppressed if some
other router was the last to report group membership with a DWR.
4.2. Optimizations
In explicit group membership protocols like PIM, CBT and MOSPF,
there is a set of routers smaller than "all routers in the domain"
which knows of group memberships in the domain. This section
describes the optimizations possible when running a protocol like
this.
In PIM and CBT, only RP's and Cores must participate. MOSPF is a
special case, in that all routers in the MOSPF domain know of all
group memberships in the domain. In this case, the DWR protocol
may degenerate to a virtual protocol run entirely inside the
elected border router.
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4.2.1. Reception of a Query Message
Only participating interior routers must join the Domain-Wide Query
well-known multicast group.
4.2.2. Transmission of a Report Message
Report messages contain all memberships that this router knows
about (e.g. in MOSPF, it's all memberships in the domain; in PIM,
it's all groups that for which this router is the RP).
4.2.3. Reception of a Report Message
If there is no overlap of the groups being reported by each partic-
ipant, the interior routers need not join the Domain-Wide Report
well-known multicast group so will not receive Report messages.
E.g. if R1 and R2 each handle one half of the multicast group
address space, there is no need for either of them to join the
Domain-Wide Report group.
4.2.4. Reception of a Leave Message
As with Reports, if there is no overlap, the interior routers need
not join the DWR group so will not receive these messages.
4.2.5. Transmission of a Leave Message
If it is possible to know when the last member in the domain goes
away, routers SHOULD send authoritative Domain-Wide Leave messages,
instead of Non-Authoritative Domain-Wide Leave messages.
5. Unsolicited messages
When a new group member appears in the domain, a Report message
SHOULD be transmitted (called an Unsolicited Report). Interior
routers MAY track the presence of group members inside the domain;
a router which is doing this SHOULD suppress its unsolicited Report
if it knows of another group member inside the domain.
6. Border Router Behavior
6.1. Querier Election
All border routers should join the Domain-Wide Queries well-known
multicast group, in order to perform Querier Election. All routers
start up thinking they are the elected Querier. If a router hears
a DWQ which has a lower ("better") priority, or an equal priority
and a lower IP address, it elects that router as Querier. If a
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router has not heard a DWQ from the elected Querier in [Querier's
Query Interval] * [Querier's Robustness Variable] + [Querier's
Response Interval], it assumes the role of Querier. It is recom-
mended to have an IPSEC[Atki95] relationship among the domain bor-
der routers so that Querier Election can not be fouled by a forged
packet.
6.2. Send Periodic Queries
The elected border router sends periodic Queries once every [Query
Interval]. These Queries include the router's Query Interval and
Robustness Variable. The Response Interval should be set to [Nor-
mal Response Interval].
6.3. Reception of Non-Authoritative Leave
Upon reception of a Non-Authoritative Leave, the elected Querier
sets a group membership timeout timer to [Robustness Variable] *
[Response Interval] + [Round Trip Delay], and sends a group-spe-
cific Query, listing all groups in the Non-Authoritative Leave mes-
sage. The Response Interval should be set to [Fast Response Inter-
val]. Until a response is heard for each listed group, the Query
should be retransmitted once every [Fast Response Interval] for a
total of [Robustness Variable] transmissions. The Querier MUST
wait an additional [Round Trip Delay] after the final [Fast
Response Interval] for reports before assuming that there are no
members present in the domain.
6.4. Reception of Group-Specific Queries
Upon reception of a Group-Specific Query, non-Querier routers MUST
set a group membership timeout timer to [Robustness Variable] *
[Response Interval] + [Round Trip Delay]. If this timeout occurs
without receiving a Report for the listed groups, the group member-
ship record is removed.
6.5. Reception of Reports
Upon reception of a Domain-Wide Report message, all border routers
set a group membership timer for each group mentioned in the
Report. This timer's value is set to [Querier's Query Interval] *
[Querier's Robustness Variable] + [Querier's Response Interval] *
2. The Querier's Query Interval, Querier's Response Interval and
Querier's Robustness Variable are remembered from the last General
Query received from the Querier. This timer is refreshed by recep-
tion of further messages.
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6.6. Request Unicast Replies
If a Border Router wishes to reduce the amount of DWR multicast
traffic in a domain, it may add the "Reply via Unicast" option to
its DWQ's. This has the advantage of reducing the amount of state
kept inside the domain for forwarding packets destined to the DWR-
reply multicast group, at the cost of eliminating suppression. The
border router must multicast DWR's summarizing the replies it got
via unicast to the DWR-reply multicast group at the end of the
response interval, in order to share membership information with
all routers. This summary MUST contain a global padding option
with its S bit set to 1, to prevent suppression of real reports.
7. List of timers and tunable values
7.1. Robustness Variable
The Robustness Variable allows tuning for the expected packet loss
in a domain. If transmission inside a domain is expected to be
lossy, the Robustness Variable may be increased, at the cost of
increased latency in determining failures. The DWR protocol is
robust to ([Robustness Variable] - 1) packet losses. The Robust-
ness Variable MUST NOT be zero, and SHOULD NOT be one. Default
value: 2
7.2. Query Interval
The Query Interval is the interval between General Queries sent by
the domain-wide Querier. Default value: 5 minutes
7.3. Normal Response Interval
The Normal Response Interval is the Response Time inserted into the
periodic General Queries. Default: 60 seconds
By varying the [Normal Response Interval], an administrator may
tune the burstiness of DWR messages in the domain; larger values
make the traffic less bursty, as host responses are spread out over
a larger interval. The number of seconds represented by the [Nor-
mal Response Interval] must be less than the [Query Interval].
7.4. Fast Response Interval
The Fast Response Interval is the Response Time inserted into
Group-Specific Queries in response to Non-Authoritative Leave mes-
sages, and is also the time between the Group-Specific Query mes-
sages. Default: 1 second
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This value may be tuned to modify the "leave latency" of the
domain. A reduced value results in reduced time to detect the loss
of the last member of a group.
7.5. Round Trip Delay
The Round Trip Delay is the worst-case round trip time through the
domain. This is used to ensure that group membership is not lost
due to a small Fast Response Interval and a large round trip delay
through the domain. This value must be manually configured.
Default: 100ms.
IGMPv2 ignores end-to-end message delay, assuming that this delay
is negligible. Although the DWR protocol is very similar to
IGMPv2, the reality is that end-to-end round trip delays can be
very different on LANs vs. in a routing domain. On a LAN, the
round trip delay is generally dwarfed by the IGMPv2 response inter-
val. Within a domain, the opposite may be true, so it's important
for the protocol to acknowledge that.
8. Message destinations
This information is provided elsewhere in the document, but is summa-
rized here for convenience.
Message Type Destination Group
------------ -----------------
General Query Domain-wide Query group (224.0.255.254)
Group-specific Query Domain-wide Query group (224.0.255.254)
Report Domain-wide Report group (224.0.255.253)
Leave Domain-wide Report group (224.0.255.253)
Non-Authoritative Leave Domain-wide Report group (224.0.255.253)
9. Miscellaneous issues
9.1. UDP encapsulation
This protocol was originally encapsulated in IGMP (IP protocol 2),
but was changed to use UDP as a concession to a widely deployed
multicast router that will not forward multicasted IGMP. The open
issues related to UDP encapsulation are:
. Should the UDP source port be required to be a privileged port?
Some operating systems require privilege to send packets with a low
source port; however, some don't, so this doesn't buy much.
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. Should the UDP checksum be required? UDP checksumming comes turned
off by default on some systems that might be acting as DWR proxies.
9.2. Elect Reporters?
In order to help with suppression in a domain, a Querier might
choose to elect a "Designated Reporter" for a group for a certain
duration. The Designated Reporter is the only router which should
send Reports for the designated group(s) for the designated time.
All others should act as though they have been suppressed for the
designated time. The Querier should cancel a router's Designated
Reporter status when that router sends a Leave message, or when it
hasn't heard a reply from that router for <N> Query intervals.
When canceling a router's Designated Reporter status, a Querier
should send a Group-Specific Query for the group(s) in question and
can optionally elect one of the responders as the new Designated
Reporter.
Designated Reporters are only required when using unicast replies;
when using multicast replies, routers may keep track of the pres-
ence of other reporters in the natural course of handling suppres-
sion.
10. Acknowledgments
The ideas of unicasting DWR replies and of electing a "designated
reporter" came from a discussion on the IDMR mailing list with Jef-
frey Zhang and Yunzhou Li of Bay Networks.
11. Security Considerations
Many same as IGMPv2[Fenn97]
11.1. Unicast Responses
Sending a DWQ requesting a unicast response can cause many DWR's to
be unicasted to the sender. Requiring IPSEC authentication on the
DWQ only if it requests unicast to a different address may not be
strong enough - for example, someone at the other end of a slow
link may swamp the link by sending a DWQ. (At the same time, some-
one at the other end of a slow link may swamp the link by sending a
multicast ping...)
12. References
Atki95 Atkinson, R., ``IP Authentication Header'', RFC 1826,
August 1995.
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Bradner97 Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", RFC 2119/BCP 14, Harvard University,
March 1997.
Fenn97 Fenner, W. ``Internet Group Management Protocol, Version
2'', RFC2236, Xerox PARC, November 1997.
Estr98 Estrin, D., D. Meyer, D. Thaler, ``Border Gateway Multi-
cast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification'', Work In
Progress, March 1998.
Thya95 Thyagarajan, A. and S. Deering, ``Hierarchical Distance-
Vector Multicast Routing'', Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm,
September 1995.
13. Author's Address
William C. Fenner
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone: +1 650 812 4816
Email: fenner@parc.xerox.com
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