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	Title		: Versatile File Delivery Protocol, a Nack-based 
                          reliable multicast file transfer Protocol 
                          Instantiation              
	Author(s)	: T. Richon et al.
	Filename	: draft-richon-vfdp-protocol-00.txt
	Pages		: 32
	Date		: 26-Mar-02
	
The aim of the Versatile File Delivery Protocol is to deliver files 
from few octets up to few hundred gigaoctets over multicast 
networks. It works over UDP and uses IP multicast addresses. VFDP 
transmissions have been designed to be as reliable as possible 
according to various and strong network constraints, either by 
retransmitting the whole file or by sending only the missing packets 
depending of a return channel existence.

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