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However, not all reliable multicast protocols ensure this level of reliability; many of them trade efficiency for reliability, in different ways. For example, while TCP makes the sender responsible for transmission reliability, multicast NAK-based protocols shift the responsibility to receivers: the sender never knows for sure that all the receivers have received all the data. RFC-2887 explores the design space for bulk data transfer, with a brief discussion on the various issues and some hints at the possible

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