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<title abbrev='Interop Rules'>Interoperability Rules for Multicast Routing Protocols</title>
<author initials='D.' surname='Thaler' fullname='Dave Thaler'>
<organization>Microsoft</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>One Microsoft Way</street>
<city>Redmond</city>
<region>WA</region>
<code>98052</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 425 703 8835</phone>
<email>dthaler@microsoft.com</email></address></author>
<date month='October' year='1999' />
<abstract>
<t>The rules described in this document will allow efficient interoperation among multiple independent multicast routing domains. Specific instantiations of these rules are given for the DVMRP, MOSPF, PIM-DM, PIM-SM, and CBT multicast routing protocols, as well as for IGMP-only links.  Future versions of these protocols, and any other multicast routing protocols, may describe their interoperability procedure by stating how the rules described herein apply to them.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='2715' />
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