Title: IETF Criteria for Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols
Author(s): A. Mankin, A. Romanow, S. Bradner, V. Paxson.
Status: INFORMATIONAL
Date: Jun 1998
Length: 24130
This memo describes the procedures and criteria for reviewing reliable multicast protocols within the Transport Area (TSV) of the IETF. Within today's Internet, important applications exist for a reliable multicast service. Some examples that are driving reliable multicast technology are collaborative workspaces (such as whiteboard), data and software distribution, and (more speculatively) web caching protocols. Due to the nature of the technical issues, a single commonly accepted technical solution that solves all the demands for reliable multicast is likely to be infeasible [RMMinutes 1997].
A number of reliable multicast protocols have already been developed to solve a variety of problems for various types of applications.
[Floyd97] describes one widely deployed example. How should these protocols be treated within the IETF and how should the IETF guide the development of reliable multicast in a direction beneficial for the general Internet? The TSV Area Directors and their Directorate have outlined a set of review procedures that address these questions and set criteria and processes for the publication as RFCs of Internet-Drafts on reliable multicast transport protocols.
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