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RFC 3452: Forward Error Correction (FEC) Building Block

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 5052, RFC 5445.

Current document in this lineage: RFC 5052 — Forward Error Correction (FEC) Building Block; RFC 5445 — Basic Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

This document generally describes how to use Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes to efficiently provide and/or augment reliability for data transport. The primary focus of this document is the application of FEC codes to one-to-many reliable data transport using IP multicast. This document describes what information is needed to identify a specific FEC code, what information needs to be communicated out-of-band to use the FEC code, and what information is needed in data packets to identify the encoding symbols they carry. The procedures for specifying FEC codes and registering them with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) are also described. This document should be read in conjunction with and uses the terminology of the companion document titled, "The Use of Forward Error Correction (FEC) in Reliable Multicast". This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

Document record

Document ID
RFC3452
Published
December 2002
Authors
M. Luby; L. Vicisano; J. Gemmell; L. Rizzo; M. Handley; J. Crowcroft
Status
EXPERIMENTAL
Stream
IETF
Area
tsv
Pages
16
Also known as
—
Obsoleted by:
RFC 5052, RFC 5445

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 4 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 3452 (2002)
  2. RFC 3695 (2004)
  3. RFC 5052 (2007)
  4. RFC 5445 (2009) ✓

Read the full history of Basic Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes →

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2 later RFCs formally update or obsolete part of this document.

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