Inter-Domain Multicast Routing (idmr)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     Tony Ballardie <A.Ballardie@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
     Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
 
 Routing Area Director(s): 
     Joel Halpern  <jhalpern@newbridge.com>
 
 Mailing lists: 
     General Discussion:idmr@cs.ucl.ac.uk
     To Subscribe:      idmr-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk
     Archive:           ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/darpa/IDMR/idmr-archive.Z
 
Description of Working Group:
 
  Existing inter-domain multicast routing protocols are not scalable to
  a large internetwork containing very large numbers of active
  wide-area groups.  The purpose of the IDMR Working Group, therefore,
  is to discuss proposed inter-domain multicast routing protocols, and
  put forward one (or a hybrid of several) as a Proposed Standard
  to the IESG.

  Several proposals have been made to date, including Core-Based Tree
  (CBT) multicasting, Core-Based Join (CBJ) multicasting, and Scalable
  Reverse Path Multicasting (SRPM).  Some of the above have yet to be
  reviewed.
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
     Done Post the Core Based Trees architecture as an Internet-Draft.         

     Done Meet at IETF.  All proposals must be submitted by this date.  Discuss
          all proposals which have been submitted.                             

   Dec 93 Submit the Core Based Trees architecture Internet-Draft to the IESG 
          to be published as an Informational RFC.                             

     Done Meet at IETF.  Discuss security issues with respect to the proposed 
          protocol(s).                                                         

   Aug 94 Post an Internet-Draft for a single protocol (which may be one of the
          proposals, or a combination of proposals), and an Internet-Draft 
          serving as a protocol analysis document for that protocol (as 
          required by RFC 1264).                                               

   Jan 95 Submit the single protocol to the IESG as a Proposed Standard.       

   Mar 95 Post an Internet-Draft for an IDMR MIB.                              

   Jul 95 Submit the IDMR MIB Internet-Draft to the IESG as a Proposed 
          Standard.                                                            


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised       I-D Title  <Filename>
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 Mar 94 Jan 95  <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-arch-01.txt, .ps> 
                Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM): Motivation and 
                Architecture                                                   
 
 Mar 94 Jan 95  <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-spec-01.txt, .ps> 
                Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM): Protocol Specification   
 
 Jul 94 Feb 95  <draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-mib-02.txt> 
                Internet Group Management Protocol MIB                         
 
 Jul 94 Feb 95  <draft-ietf-idmr-multicast-routmib-02.txt> 
                IP Multicast Routing MIB                                       
 
 Jul 94 Feb 95  <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-mib-01.txt> 
                Protocol Independent Multicast MIB                             
 
 Sep 94 Apr 95  <draft-ietf-idmr-cbt-spec-01.txt, .ps> 
                Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast  -- Architectural Overview and
                Specification --                                               
 
 Oct 94 Apr 95  <draft-ietf-idmr-mkd-01.txt, .ps> 
                Scalable Multicast Key Distribution                            
 
 Mar 95 New     <draft-ietf-idmr-mtree-00.txt, .ps> 
                The Trade-offs of Multicast Trees and Algorithms               

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.