RFC 992 · UNKNOWN · 1986
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
On communication support for fault tolerant process groups
Overview
RFC 992, “On communication support for fault tolerant process groups”, is an Unknown document published in November 1986 by K.P. Birman, T.A. Joseph. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This memo describes a collection of multicast communication primitives integrated with a mechanism for handling process failure and recovery. These primitives facilitate the implementation of fault-tolerant process groups, which can be used to provide distributed services in an environment subject to non-malicious crash failures.
What “Unknown” means
The standards-track status of this early RFC was never formally classified.
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