Definitions and Addressing

  RFC 1112 Host Extensions for IP Multicasting. S. Deering, Stanford University, August 1989. (Obsoletes RFCs 988, 1054) (Updated by RFC2236) (Status: RECOMMENDED STANDARD)

  RFC 1546 Host Anycasting Service. C. Partridge, T. Mendez, W. Milliken. November 1993. (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

  RFC 2373 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture. R. Hinden, S. Deering. July 1998. (Obsoletes RFC1884) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

  RFC 2375 IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments. R. Hinden, S. Deering. July 1998. (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

Management of multicast groups on the link-local

  RFC 2710 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6. S. Deering, W. Fenner, B. Haberman. October 1999. (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

Multicast routing

  RFC 1075 Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol. D. Waitzman, C. Partridge, S.E. Deering. Nov-01-1988. (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)

  RFC 1458 Requirements for Multicast Protocols, May 1993 (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

  RFC 2362 Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification. D. Estrin, D. Farinacci, A. Helmy, D. Thaler, S. Deering, M. Handley, V. Jacobson, C. Liu, P. Sharma, L. Wei. June 1998. (Obsoletes RFC2117) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)

  RFC 2715 Interoperability Rules for Multicast Routing Protocols. D.Thaler. October 1999. (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

Allocation of IPv6 multicast addresses

  RFC 2730 Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP). S.Hanna, B. Patel, M. Shah. December 1999. (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

  RFC 2771 An Abstract API for Multicast Address Allocation. R. Finlayson. February 2000. (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

  RFC 2776 Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP). M. Handley, D. Thaler, R. Kermode. February 2000. (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

  RFC 2907 MADCAP Multicast Scope Nesting State Option. R. Kermode. September 2000. (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

  RFC 2908 The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture. D. Thaler, M. Handley, D. Estrin. September 2000. (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

Monitoring

  RFC 2417 Definitions of Managed Objects for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks. C. Chung, M. Greene. September 1998. (Obsoletes RFC2366) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

  RFC 3019 IP Version 6 Management Information Base for The Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol. B. Haberman, R. Worzella. January 2001. (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

Security

  RFC 1949 Scalable Multicast Key Distribution. A. Ballardie. May 1996. (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)

  RFC 2588 IP Multicast and Firewalls. R. Finlayson. May 1999. (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

Performances

  RFC 2432 Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking. K. Dubray. October 1998. (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

Applications

  RFC 2090 TFTP Multicast Option. A. Emberson. February 1997. (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)

  RFC 3170 IP Multicast Applications: Challenges and Solutions. B. Quinn, K. Almeroth. September 2001. (Status: INFORMATIONAL)