{
  "draft": null,
  "doc_id": "RFC988",
  "title": "Host extensions for IP multicasting",
  "authors": [
    "S.E. Deering"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "20",
  "pub_status": "UNKNOWN",
  "status": "UNKNOWN",
  "source": "Legacy",
  "abstract": "This memo specifies the extensions required of a host implementation of the Internet Protocol (IP) to support internetwork multicasting.  This specification supersedes that given in RFC-966, and constitutes a proposed protocol standard for IP multicasting in the ARPA-Internet.  The reader is directed to RFC-966 for a discussion of the motivation and rationale behind the multicasting extension specified here.",
  "pub_date": "July 1986",
  "keywords": [
    "multicast",
    "Internet"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [
    "RFC966"
  ],
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC1054",
    "RFC1112"
  ],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC988",
  "errata_url": null
}