A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5401 Title: Multicast Negative-Acknowledgment (NACK) Building Blocks Author: B. Adamson, C. Bormann, M. Handley, J. Macker Status: Standards Track Date: November 2008 Mailbox: adamson@itd.nrl.navy.mil, cabo@tzi.org, M.Handley@cs.ucl.ac.uk, macker@itd.nrl.navy.mil Pages: 42 Characters: 109312 Obsoletes: RFC3941 I-D Tag: draft-ietf-rmt-bb-norm-revised-07.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5401.txt 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] This document is a product of the Reliable Multicast Transport Working Group of the IETF. This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol. STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team USC/Information Sciences Institute _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce