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Yoid: Extending the Internet Multicast Architecture

Paul Francis

ACIRI
francis@aciri.org

April 2, 2000

• Contents
  • 0.1 Abstract
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Document Roadmap
  • 1.2 Motivation
  • 1.3 Yoid: An Alternative Architecture
  • 1.4 Yoid in a Nutshell
  • 1.5 Yoid Pros and Cons (Mostly Pros)
  • 1.6 Back to the Architectural Foundation
  • 1.7 Related Work
  • 1.8 Simplicity (or Lack Thereof)
• 2 Yoid Architecture
  • 2.1 Major Components
  • 2.2 Yoid Tree and Mesh Topologies
  • 2.3 Content Protocols
  • 2.4 Yoid Tree Management Protocol (YTMP)
  • 2.5 Parent Discovery and Selection in YTMP
  • 2.6 Security Architecture Overview
  • 2.7 API
• 3 Odds and Ends
  • 3.1 Neighbor Aliveness
  • 3.2 Configuration with Yoid Proxy Servers
  • 3.3 Web Caching (and Hierarchically Nested Groups)
  • 3.4 Meta-Rendezvous Service (Another Nested Groups Application)
  • 3.5 Distributing Across a Lot of Time
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