This Recommendation | International Standard describes the specification of mobile multicast control protocol (MMCP) over native IP multicast networks for mobile multicast communications. The MMCP can be used to support a variety of multimedia multicasting services in the IP-based wireless mobile networks. The MMC is targeted at the real-time one-to-many multicast services and applications over mobile communications networks. This Recommendation | International Standard describes the procedures and packet formats of the MMCP protocol.