Protocols and standards

RFC 3973, Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification(Revised)

RFC 4601, Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)

RFC 5059, Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)

RFC 4607, Source-Specific Multicast for IP

Draft-ietf-ssm-overview-05, An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)