RFC 992: On communication support for fault tolerant process groups
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This memo describes a collection of multicast communication primitives integrated with a mechanism for handling process failure and recovery. These primitives facilitate the implementation of fault-tolerant process groups, which can be used to provide distributed services in an environment subject to non-malicious crash failures.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC992
- Published
- November 1986
- Authors
- K.P. Birman; T.A. Joseph
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 18
- Also known as
- —
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