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RFC 5401: Multicast Negative-Acknowledgment (NACK) Building Blocks

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This document discusses the creation of reliable multicast protocols that utilize negative-acknowledgment (NACK) feedback. The rationale for protocol design goals and assumptions are presented. Technical challenges for NACK-based (and in some cases general) reliable multicast protocol operation are identified. These goals and challenges are resolved into a set of functional "building blocks" that address different aspects of reliable multicast protocol operation. It is anticipated that these building blocks will be useful in generating different instantiations of reliable multicast protocols. This document obsoletes RFC 3941. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Document ID
RFC5401
Published
November 2008
Authors
B. Adamson; C. Bormann; M. Handley; J. Macker
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
tsv
Pages
42
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Obsoletes:
RFC 3941

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