RFC 1054: Host extensions for IP multicasting
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Current document in this lineage: RFC 1112 — Host extensions for IP multicasting
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This memo specifies the extensions required of a host implementation of the Internet Protocol (IP) to support multicasting. IP multicasting is the transmission of an IP datagram to a "host group", a set hosts identified by a single IP destination address. A multicast datagram is delivered to all members of its destination host group with the same "best-efforts" reliability as regular unicast IP datagrams. It is proposed as a standard for IP multicasting in the Internet. This specification is a major revision of RFC-988.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC1054
- Published
- May 1988
- Authors
- S.E. Deering
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 19
- Also known as
- —
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 4 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
- RFC 966 (1985)
- RFC 988 (1986)
- RFC 1054 (1988)
- RFC 1112 (1989) ✓
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