SSM Deployment

Host-side implementation
Purpose
Specification of interesting source address(es) as well as multicast address (aka (S,G) join/leave)
Summarizing and reporting (S,G) information
Kernel implementation
IGMPv3 for IPv4 and MLDv2 for IPv6
MSF APIs
Application implementation
MSF APIs
Router-side implementation
Purpose
Translation of reported (S,G) information
Constructing SPT from initial phase
Routing protocol implementation
IGMPv3 for IPv4 and MLDv2 for IPv6
           (Currently, PIM-SSM is only the routing protocol to
            support SSM architecture)