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Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. Distribution of this document is unlimited. In certain topologies, it is not necessary to run a multicast routing protocol. It is sufficient to learn group membership information and simply forward based upon that information. This draft describes a mechanism for forwarding based solely upon IGMP membership information.