RFC6166

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Venaas Request for Comments: 6166 Cisco Systems Category: Standards Track April 2011 ISSN: 2070-1721

                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.

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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.

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.

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.

Initial Registry

The initial content of the registry should be as follows.

Type Name Reference

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 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

Assignment of New Message Types

Assignment of new message types is done according to the "IETF Review" model; see RFC5226.

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.

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.

RFC5015 Handley, M., Kouvelas, I., Speakman, T., and L. Vicisano,

          "Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-
          PIM)", RFC 5015, October 2007.

RFC5226 Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an

          IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
          May 2008.

Author's Address

Stig Venaas Cisco Systems Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134 USA

EMail: [email protected]