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Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer

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Network Working Group                                         B. Whetten
Request for Comments: 3048                                      Talarian
Category: Informational                                      L. Vicisano
                                                                   Cisco
                                                              R. Kermode
                                                                Motorola
                                                              M. Handley
                                                                 ACIRI 9
                                                                S. Floyd
                                                                   ACIRI
                                                                 M. Luby
                                                        Digital Fountain
                                                            January 2001


      Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many
                           Bulk-Data Transfer

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes a framework for the standardization of bulk-
   data reliable multicast transport.  It builds upon the experience
   gained during the deployment of several classes of contemporary
   reliable multicast transport, and attempts to pull out the
   commonalities between these classes of protocols into a number of
   building blocks.  To that end, this document recommends that certain
   components that are common to multiple protocol classes be
   standardized as "building blocks".  The remaining parts of the
   protocols, consisting of highly protocol specific, tightly
   intertwined functions, shall be designated as "protocol cores".
   Thus, each protocol can then be constructed by merging a "protocol
   core" with a number of "building blocks" which can be re-used across
   multiple protocols.








Whetten, et al.              Informational
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