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+Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                         S. Venaas
+Request for Comments: 6166                                 Cisco Systems
+Category: Standards Track                                     April 2011
+ISSN: 2070-1721
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+                    A Registry for PIM Message Types
+
+Abstract
+
+   This document provides instructions to IANA for the creation of a
+   registry for PIM message types.  It specifies the initial content of
+   the registry, based on existing RFCs specifying PIM message types.
+   It also specifies a procedure for registering new types.
+
+   In addition to this, one message type is reserved, and may be used
+   for a future extension of the message type space.
+
+Status of This Memo
+
+   This is an Internet Standards Track document.
+
+   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
+   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
+   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
+   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
+   Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
+
+   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
+   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
+   http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6166.
+
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+Venaas                       Standards Track                    [Page 1]
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+RFC 6166            A Registry for PIM Message Types          April 2011
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+Table of Contents
+
+   1. Introduction ....................................................2
+   2. Security Considerations .........................................2
+   3. IANA Considerations .............................................2
+      3.1. Initial Registry ...........................................3
+      3.2. Assignment of New Message Types ............................3
+   4. Acknowledgements ................................................3
+   5. Informative References ..........................................3
+
+1.  Introduction
+
+   Apart from this document, there is no existing document specifying a
+   registry for PIM message types.  PIM version 1 made use of IGMP
+   [RFC1112], and there is an IGMP registry [IGMPREG] listing the
+   message types used by PIM version 1.  PIM version 2, however, is not
+   based on IGMP, and a separate PIM message type registry is needed.
+   There are currently several RFCs specifying new PIM version 2 message
+   types that should be in this new registry.  They are the RFCs for PIM
+   Dense Mode [RFC3973], PIM Sparse Mode [RFC4601], and Bidirectional
+   PIM [RFC5015].
+
+   This document specifies the initial content of the new PIM message
+   type registry, based on those existing RFCs.  This document also
+   specifies a procedure for registering new PIM message types.
+
+   In addition to this, this document reserves one message type.  This
+   type may be used for a future extension of the message type space.
+   The current message type space is only 4 bits, so it is not unlikely
+   that this will be needed.  How exactly the extension should be done
+   is left to a future document.
+
+2.  Security Considerations
+
+   This document only creates an IANA registry.  There may be a security
+   benefit in a well-known place for finding information on which PIM
+   message types are valid and how they are used.  Apart from that,
+   there are no security considerations.
+
+3.  IANA Considerations
+
+   IANA has created a PIM message type registry.  It has been placed in
+   the "Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)" branch of the tree.  Each
+   entry in the registry consists of a message type, a message name, and
+   references to the documents defining the type.  The message type is a
+   4-bit integer with possible values from 0 to 15.
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+3.1.  Initial Registry
+
+   The initial content of the registry should be as follows.
+
+   Type    Name                                      Reference
+   ------  ----------------------------------------  -------------------
+     0      Hello                                    [RFC3973] [RFC4601]
+     1      Register                                 [RFC4601]
+     2      Register Stop                            [RFC4601]
+     3      Join/Prune                               [RFC3973] [RFC4601]
+     4      Bootstrap                                [RFC4601]
+     5      Assert                                   [RFC3973] [RFC4601]
+     6      Graft                                    [RFC3973]
+     7      Graft-Ack                                [RFC3973]
+     8      Candidate RP Advertisement               [RFC4601]
+     9      State Refresh                            [RFC3973]
+    10      DF Election                              [RFC5015]
+    11-14   Unassigned
+    15      Reserved (for extension of type space)   this document
+
+3.2.  Assignment of New Message Types
+
+   Assignment of new message types is done according to the "IETF
+   Review" model; see [RFC5226].
+
+4.  Acknowledgements
+
+   Thanks to Toerless Eckert for his suggestion to reserve a type for
+   future extension of the message type space.  Also thanks to Mykyta
+   Yevstifeyev for reviewing the document and proposing improvements to
+   the text.
+
+5.  Informative References
+
+   [IGMPREG]  IANA, "Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Type
+              Numbers - per [RFC3228], [BCP57]", <http://www.iana.org/>.
+
+   [RFC1112]  Deering, S., "Host extensions for IP multicasting", STD 5,
+              RFC 1112, August 1989.
+
+   [RFC3973]  Adams, A., Nicholas, J., and W. Siadak, "Protocol
+              Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol
+              Specification (Revised)", RFC 3973, January 2005.
+
+   [RFC4601]  Fenner, B., Handley, M., Holbrook, H., and I. Kouvelas,
+              "Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM):
+              Protocol Specification (Revised)", RFC 4601, August 2006.
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+   [RFC5015]  Handley, M., Kouvelas, I., Speakman, T., and L. Vicisano,
+              "Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-
+              PIM)", RFC 5015, October 2007.
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+   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
+              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
+              May 2008.
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+Author's Address
+
+   Stig Venaas
+   Cisco Systems
+   Tasman Drive
+   San Jose, CA  95134
+   USA
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+   EMail: stig@cisco.com
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