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Group Address Allocation Protocol (GAAP)
draft-ietf-pim-gaap-03

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Active".
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Authors Dino Farinacci , Mike McBride
Last updated 2025-08-31 (Latest revision 2025-02-27)
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Jun 2025
Advance Group Address Allocation drafts to IESG
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Abstract

This document describes a design for a lightweight decentralized multicast group address allocation protocol (named GAAP and pronounced "gap" as in "mind the gap"). The protocol requires no configuration setup and no centralized services. The protocol runs among group participants which need a unique group address to send and receive multicast packets.

Authors

Dino Farinacci
Mike McBride

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