@techreport{asati-pim-multicast-routing-blackhole-avoid-00, number = {draft-asati-pim-multicast-routing-blackhole-avoid-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-asati-pim-multicast-routing-blackhole-avoid/00/}, author = {Rajiv Asati and Mike McBride}, title = {{Multicast Routing Blackhole Avoidance}}, pagetotal = 11, year = 2008, month = jul, day = 6, abstract = {This document specifies a mechanism to avoid blackholing of IP Multicast traffic due to the disruption of multicast tree during the time when the RPF neighbor is yet to become the PIM neighbor. Such scenario is possible during the topology change (e.g. link UP) in an IP network that employs PIM-SM (or SSM) as the multicast routing protocol and a unicast routing protocol (including static routing). Conventions used in this document In examples, "C:" and "S:" indicate lines sent by the client and server respectively. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC2119 {[}RFC2119{]}.}, }