I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-mboned-sntp-heart-00.txt
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the MBONE Deployment Working Group of the IETF. Title : The Use of SNTP as a Multicast Heartbeat Author(s) : B. Aboba, T. Pfenning Filename : draft-ietf-mboned-sntp-heart-00.txt Pages : 6 Date : 10/24/1996 This document describes how the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) can be used to provide a multicast heartbeat. Given the current state of the art in multicast diagnostics, use of a heartbeat may prove a useful diagnostic tool for operators as well as for applications developers. Operators may use the heartbeat to alert themselves to losses of multicast connectivity in portions of the network. Applications developers may use the heartbeat to determine whether to enable multicast features or to default to unicast operation. In the long term, better solutions (such as improved IGMP diagnostics) are likely to become available, so that a multicast heartbeat is unlikely to have long-term utility. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-mboned-sntp-heart-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-sntp-heart-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa: ftp.is.co.za o Europe: nic.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it o Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.a o US East Coast: ds.internic.net o US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-sntp-heart-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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