NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Update Brian Adamson, et al. <adamson@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
Status Overview Updated drafts to: “draft-ietf-rmt-pi-norm-06”, and “draft-ietf-rmt-bb-norm-05” (including Postscript versions) Both documents are now complete and fully complete with RMT Author Guidelines. All previous comments have been incorporated. Web site for NRL open-source reference implementation established at: http://norm.pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil
draft-ietf-rmt-bb-norm-05 Document reorganized to fully comply with RMT Author Guidelines. TBD sections have now been completed. References to appropriate building block drafts and RFCs have been updated.
draft-ietf-rmt-pi-norm-06 Document reorganized to fully comply with RMT Author Guidelines. Terminology changed in congestion control description to be consistent with TFMCC building block. NORM_CC_FLAG_LEAVE added per TFMCC recommendation to indicate receivers preparing to leave group and thus should be ignored for congestion control operation. FEC Payload Identifier fields of NORM_DATA packets consistent with format given in FEC Building Block RFC References and Security Considerations finally completed. NORM-CC operation has been tested on Ethernet in addition to previous ns-2 simulations.
Next Steps Internet drafts are stable. NRL open source implementation will continue to mature. Further experiments and simulations will be performed with the protocol.