Reliable Multicast Transport Building Block: Tree Auto-Configuration

This document describes the TRACK Building Block. It contains functions relating to positive acknowledgments and hierarchical tree construction and maintenance. It is primarily meant to be used as part of the TRACK Protocol Instantiation. It is also designed to be useful as part of overlay multicast systems that wish to offer efficient confirmed delivery of multicast messages. Conventions used in this document The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119.

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