Re: Do we need a reliable multicast in kernel?

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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Zhao, Forrest wrote:
> Recently I found an IETF reliable multicast working group 
> site(http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/rmt-charter.html). 
> Since the kernel has the support for multicast now, do you
> think it's necessary to support reliable multicast in kernel?
> Are there many applications that need this rmt feature until now?

FWIW, Sun has claimed IPR on RMT:

http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/SUN-RELIABLE-MULTICAST

.. not sure whether that's relevant or not..

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