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<title abbrev='PIM-SM'>Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification</title>
<author initials='D.' surname='Estrin' fullname='Deborah Estrin'>
<organization>Computer Science Dept/ISI</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>University of Southern Calif.</street>
<city>Los Angeles</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>90089</code></postal>
<email>estrin@usc.edu</email></address></author>
<author initials='D.' surname='Farinacci' fullname='Dino Farinacci'>
<organization>Cisco Systems Inc.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>170 West Tasman Drive,</street>
<city>San Jose</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>95134</code></postal>
<email>dino@cisco.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='A.' surname='Helmy' fullname='Ahmed Helmy'>
<organization>Computer Science Dept.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>University of Southern Calif.</street>
<city>Los Angeles</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>90089</code></postal>
<email>ahelmy@catarina.usc.edu</email></address></author>
<author initials='D.' surname='Thaler' fullname='David Thaler'>
<organization>EECS Department</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>University of Michigan</street>
<city>Ann Arbor</city>
<region>MI</region>
<code>48109</code></postal>
<email>thalerd@eecs.umich.edu</email></address></author>
<author initials='S.' surname='Deering' fullname='Stephen Deering'>
<organization>Xerox PARC</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>3333 Coyote Hill Road</street>
<city>Palo Alto</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>94304</code></postal>
<email>deering@parc.xerox.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='M.' surname='Handley' fullname='Mark Handley'>
<organization>Department of Computer Science</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>University College London</street>
<street>Gower Street</street>
<street>London, WC1E 6BT</street>
<country>UK</country></postal>
<email>m.handley@cs.ucl.ac.uk</email></address></author>
<author initials='V.' surname='Jacobson' fullname='Van Jacobson'>
<organization>Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>1 Cyclotron Road</street>
<city>Berkeley</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>94720</code></postal>
<email>van@ee.lbl.gov</email></address></author>
<date month='June' year='1998' />
<area>Internet</area>
<keyword>multicast</keyword>
<keyword>PIM</keyword>
<keyword>routing</keyword></front>

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