rfc-2191

VENUS - Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service

G. Armitage
date1997-09 streamLegacy statusINFORMATIONAL pages12 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2191 doi10.17487/RFC2191
This document focuses exclusively on the problems associated with extending the MARS model to cover multiple clusters or clusters spanning more than one subnet. It describes a hypothetical solution, dubbed "Very Extensive NonUnicast Service" (VENUS), and shows how complex such a service would be. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.