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        RFC 3048

        Title:      Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for
                    One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer
        Author(s):  B. Whetten, L. Vicisano, R. Kermode, M. Handley,
                    S. Floyd, M. Luby
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       January 2001
        Mailbox:    whetten@talarian.com, lorenzo@cisco.com,
                    Roger.Kermode@motorola.com, mjh@aciri.org,
                    floyd@aciri.org, luby@digitalfountain.com 
        Pages:      20
        Characters: 48965
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None        

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-rmt-buildingblocks-03.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3048.txt


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. 

This document is a product of the Reliable Multicast Transport Working
Group of the IETF.

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