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INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

B. Quinn
K. Almeroth

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3170

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Abstract

This document describes the challenges involved with designing and implementing multicast applications. It is an introductory guide for application developers that highlights the unique considerations of multicast applications as compared to unicast applications. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.