• Packet Routing Services
• IPv4 Routed Access Services

Obligation: MANDATORY, Lifecycle: CURRENT

The following standards shall apply to multicast routing.

• Overview of the Internet Multicast Addressing Architecture (RFC 6308:2011)
• IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments (RFC 5771:2010)
• Administratively Scoped IP Multicast (RFC 2365:1998)

Obligation: MANDATORY, Lifecycle: CURRENT

Service providers with their own multicast capability shall provide a Rendezvous Point (RP) supporting the following IP multicast protocol standards.

• Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) (RFC 3618:2003)
• Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (RFC 4760:2007)

Obligation: OPTIONAL, Lifecycle: CURRENT

• Source-Specific Multicast for IP (RFC 4607:2006)
• Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8 (RFC 4608:2006)

Obligation: MANDATORY, Lifecycle: CURRENT

The following standards shall apply for all IP interconnections.

• Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised) (RFC 7761:2016)
• Host Extensions for IP Multicasting (RFC 1112:1989)
• Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3 (RFC 3376:2002)

This profile is used by the following profiles:

• FMN Spiral 3 Communications Profile - (profile)