@misc{rfc2117, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 2117, howpublished = {RFC 2117}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC2117}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2117}, author = {Dr. Steve E. Deering and Dr. Deborah Estrin and Ching-Gung Liu and Liming Wei and Puneet Sharma and Dave Thaler and Mark J. Handley and Ahmed Helmy and Van Jacobson and Dino Farinacci}, title = {{Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification}}, pagetotal = 66, year = 1997, month = jun, abstract = {This document describes a protocol for efficiently routing to multicast groups that may span wide-area (and inter-domain) internets. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.}, }