RFC 8313 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2018

Use of Multicast across Inter-domain Peering Points

Overview

RFC 8313, “Use of Multicast across Inter-domain Peering Points”, is a Best Current Practice document published in January 2018 by P. Tarapore, R. Sayko, G. Shepherd, T. Eckert, R. Krishnan. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document examines the use of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) across inter-domain peering points for a specified set of deployment scenarios. The objectives are to (1) describe the setup process for multicast-based delivery across administrative domains for these scenarios and (2) document supporting functionality to enable this process.

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What “Best Current Practice” means

Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.

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