PIM Message Type Space Extension and Reserved Bits
RFC 9436

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9436, changed abstract to 'The PIM version 2 messages share a common message header format. The common header definition contains eight reserved bits. This document specifies how these bits may be used by individual message types and extends the PIM type space.

This document updates RFCs 7761 and 3973 by defining the use of the Reserved field in the PIM common header. This document further updates RFCs 7761 and 3973, along with RFCs 5015, 5059, 6754, and 8364, by specifying the use of the bits for each PIM message.

This document obsoletes RFC 8736.', changed pages to 7, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2023-08-31, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-pim-rfc8736bis and RFC 8736, created updates relation between draft-ietf-pim-rfc8736bis and RFC 3973, created updates relation between draft-ietf-pim-rfc8736bis and RFC 5015, created updates relation between draft-ietf-pim-rfc8736bis and RFC 5059, created updates relation between draft-ietf-pim-rfc8736bis and RFC 6754, created updates relation between draft-ietf-pim-rfc8736bis and RFC 7761, created updates relation between draft-ietf-pim-rfc8736bis and RFC 8364)