Information Technology Journal1812-56381812-5646Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/itj.2004.95.105AvognonJean-Pierre Zhi Tang Li 1200431IP multicast capable network is increasingly becoming an important technology for commercial and even military distributive and group-based application. As any network session, the security aspect of multicast is a very important problem to be resolved. This article is a first part of a continuous work that will end up on the IPsec-based security aspect of the IP multicast communication. In this article, we first make an overview on the multicast fundamental and its routing protocols as well as the distribution trees they are based on. Various techniques that have been currently proposed to enforce IP multicast security and reliability are qualitatively discussed.]]>Deering, S.,19891989Anonymous,20042004Meyer, D.,19981998Hinden, R.N. and S. Deering,19981998Anonymous,20032003Vincent, R., L. Costa, R. Vida, A. Dracinschi and S. Fdida,2000Cain, B., A. Ballardie and Z. Zhang,20032003Brown, I., J. Crowcroft, M. Handley and B. Cain,20022002Koh, S.J. and S.G. Kang,20012001pp: 209213Pusateri, T.,20032003Ranjitkar, P.G., I.M. Suliman, P. Geil, M. Kuipers and R. Prasad,20002000pp: 484489Moy, J.,19971997Adam, A., J. Nicholas and W. Siadak,20032003Fenner, B., M. Handley, H. Holbrook and I. Kouvelas,20032003Handley, M., I. Kouvelas, T. Speakman and L. Vicisano,20032003McBride, M., J. Meylor and D. Meyer,20032003Almeroth, K.C.,2000141020Thaler, D.,20032003Radoslavov, P., D. Estrin, R. Govindan, M. Handley, S. Kumar and D. Thaler,20002000Pekka, P.,19951995Sarac, K. and K.C. Almeroth,20009191211Canetti, R., J. Garay, G. Itkis, D. Micciancio, M. Naor and B. Pinkas,19992708716Setia, S., S. Koussih and S. Jajodia,20002000pp: 215228Perrig, A., R. Canetti, B. Briscoe, D. Tygar and D. Song,20022002Baugher, M., R. Canetti, L. Dondeti and F. Lindholm,20032003Maughan, D., M. Schertler, M. Schneider and J. Turner,19981998Arkko, E.C., F. Lindholm, M. Naslund, K. Norrman and Ericsson,20032003Harvey, H., U. Meth, A. Colegrove, A. Schuett and P. McDaniel et al.,20032003