RFCs
IP Multicast:
RFC 1112 - Host Extensions for IP Multicasting. August 1989.
RFC 2365 - Administratively Scoped IP Multicast. July 1998.
RFC 2375 - IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments. July 1998.
RFC 2776 - Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP). February 2000.
RFC 3138 - Extended Assignments in 233/8. June 2001. Informational.
RFC 3171 - IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments. August 2001. Best Current Practice.
RFC 3180 - GLOP Addressing in 233/8. September 2001. Best Current Practice.
RFC 3306 - Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses. August 2002.
RFC 3307 - Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses. August 2002.
RFC 3569 - An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM). July 2003. Informational.
RFC 3956 - Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address. November 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4607 - Source-Specific Multicast for IP. August 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4608 - Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8. August 2006. Best Current Practice.

Group Management:
RFC 2710 - Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6. October 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2933 - Internet Group Management Protocol MIB. October 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3019 - IP Version 6 Management Information Base for The Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol. January 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3228 - IANA Considerations for IPv4 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). February 2002. Best Current Practice.
RFC 3376 - Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3. October 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3590 - Source Address Selection for the Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Protocol. September 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3678 - Socket Interface Extensions for Multicast Source Filters. January 2004. Informational.
RFC 3810 - Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6. June 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4286 - Multicast Router Discovery. December 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4541 - Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches. May 2006. Informational.
RFC 4604 - Using Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3) and Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol Version 2 (MLDv2) for Source-Specific Multicast. August 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4605 - Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) / Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)-Based Multicast Forwarding ("IGMP/MLD Proxying"). August 2006. Proposed Standard.

Routing:
RFC 1075 - Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol. November 1988. Experimental.
RFC 1584 - Multicast Extensions to OSPF. March 1994. Proposed Standard.
RFC 1585 - MOSPF: Analysis and Experience. March 1994. Informational.
RFC 2189 - Core Based Trees (CBT version 2) Multicast Routing. September 1997. Experimental.
RFC 2201 - Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast Routing Architecture. September 1997. Experimental.
RFC 2715 - Interoperability Rules for Multicast Routing Protocols. October 1999. Informational.
RFC 2932 - IPv4 Multicast Routing MIB. October 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2934 - Protocol Independent Multicast MIB for IPv4. October 2000. Experimental.
RFC 3446 - Anycast Rendevous Point (RP) mechanism using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP). January 2003. Informational.
RFC 3618 - Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP). October 2003. Experimental.
RFC 3913 - Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification. September 2004. Informational.
RFC 3973 - Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (Revised). January 2005. Experimental.
RFC 4601 - Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised). August 2006. Proposed Standard. (txt|pdf)
RFC 4602 - Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) IETF Proposed Standard Requirements Analysis. August 2006. Informational.
RFC 4609 - Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) Multicast Routing Security Issues and Enhancements. August 2006. Informational.
RFC 4610 - Anycast-RP Using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM). August 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4611 - Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Deployment Scenarios. August 2006. Informational.
RFC 4624 - Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) MIB. October 2006. Experimental.
RFC TBD - Bi-directional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-PIM). Proposed Standard. (txt|pdf)
RFC TBD - Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for PIM. TBD 2007. Proposed Standard. (txt|ps)

Reliable Multicast:
RFC 2357 - IETF Criteria for Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols. June 1998. Informational.
RFC 2887 - The Reliable Multicast Design Space for Bulk Data Transfer. August 2000. Informational.
RFC 3048 - Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer. January 2001. Informational.
RFC 3208 - PGM Reliable Transport Protocol Specification. December 2001. Informational.
RFC 3269 - Author Guidelines for Reliable Multicast Transport (RMT) Building Blocks and Protocol Instantiation documents. April 2002.
RFC 3450 - Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) Protocol Instantiation. December 2002. Experimental.
RFC 3451 - Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block. December 2002. Experimental.
RFC 3452 - Forward Error Correction Building Block. December 2002. Experimental.
RFC 3453 - The Use of Forward Error Correction in Reliable Multicast. December 2002. Informational.
RFC 3695 - Compact Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes. February 2004. Experimental.
RFC 3738 - Wave and Equation Based Rate Control (WEBRC) Building Block. April 2004. Experimental.
RFC 3926 - FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport. October 2004. Experimental.
RFC 3940 - Negative-acknowledgment (NACK)-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Protocol. November 2004. Experimental.
RFC 3941 - Negative-Acknowledgment (NACK)-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Building Blocks. November 2004. Experimental.
RFC 4410 - Selectively Reliable Multicast Protocol (SRMP). February 2006. Experimental.

Address Allocation Protocols:
RFC 2908 - The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture. September 2000.
RFC 2909 - The Multicast Address-Set Claim (MASC) Protocol. September 2000.
RFC 2730 - Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP). December 1999.
RFC 2771 - An Abstract API for Multicast Address Allocation. February 2000. Informational.
RFC 3559 - Multicast Address Allocation MIB. June 2003.

Security:
RFC 1949 - Scalable Multicast Key Distribution. May 1996. Experimental.
RFC 2627 - Key Management for Multicast: Issues and Architectures. June 1999. Informational.
RFC 3547 - The Group Domain of Interpretation. July 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3740 - The Multicast Group Security Architecture. March 2004. Informational.
RFC 3830 - MIKEY: Multimedia Internet KEYing. August 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4046 - Multicast Security (MSEC) Group Key Management Architecture. April 2005. Informational.
RFC 4082 - Timed Efficient Stream Loss-Tolerant Authentication (TESLA): Multicast Source Authentication Transform Introduction. June 2005. Informational.

Misc:
RFC 3353 - Overview of IP Multicast in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Environment. August 2002. Informational.
RFC 3488 - Cisco Systems Router-port Group Management Protocol (RGMP). February 2003. Informational.
RFC 3754 - IP Multicast in Differentiated Services (DS) Networks. April 2004. Informational.

Working Group Drafts
Addressing:
draft-ietf-mboned-rfc3171bis - IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments.

Routing:
draft-ietf-pim-mib-v2 - Protocol Independent Multicast MIB.

draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast - IPv4 Automatic Multicast Without Explicit Tunnels (AMT).

draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3 - Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol.
draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3-as - Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol Applicability Statement.
draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-mrdisc - Multicast Router Discovery.

Group Membership:
draft-ietf-magma-msf-api - Socket Interface Extensions for Multicast Source Filters.
draft-ietf-magma-igmpv3-and-routing - IGMPv3 and Multicast Routing Protocol Interaction.
draft-ietf-magma-snoop - Considerations for IGMP and MLD Snooping Switches.
draft-ietf-magma-mld-source - Source Address Selection for Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol (RFC 2710).
draft-ietf-magma-msnip - Multicast Source Notification of Interest Protocol.

Reliable Multicast:
draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-supp-compat - Compact Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes.
draft-ietf-rmt-bb-gra-signalling - Reliable Multicast Transport Building Block Generic Router Assist - Signalling Protocol Specification.
draft-ietf-rmt-bb-tree-config - Reliable Multicast Transport Building Block: Tree Auto-Configuration.

Non WG Drafts
draft-boudani-mxcast - Using Recursive Xcast Packets for Multicast Delivery.
draft-chiu-rmt-bb-track - Reliable Multicast Transport Building Block:Tree based ACK (TRACK) Mechanisms.
draft-savola-v6ops-multicast-issues - IPv6 Multicast Deployment Issues.
draft-lehtonen-magma-mcop - Multicast Control Protocol (MCOP).
draft-boudani-mpls-multicast-tree - An Effective Solution for Multicast Scalability: The MPLS Multicast Tree (MMT).
draft-paila-rmt-fdalc - FDALC - File Delivery for ALC.
draft-lehtonen-magma-mcop - Multicast Control Protocol (MCOP).
draft-sjkoh-rmt-bb-tree-config - Reliable Multicast Transport Building Block: Tree Auto-Configuration.
draft-suz-pim-upstream-detection - PIM upstream detection among multiple addresses.

Links
IETF Working Group Multicast & Anycast Group Membership (magma)
IETF Working Group MBONE Deployment (mboned) (addition page)
IETF Working Group Multicast Security (msec)
IETF Working Group Protocol Independent Multicast (pim)
IETF Working Group Reliable Multicast Transport (rmt)

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