{
  "draft": null,
  "doc_id": "RFC992",
  "title": "On communication support for fault tolerant process groups",
  "authors": [
    "K.P. Birman",
    "T.A. Joseph"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "18",
  "pub_status": "UNKNOWN",
  "status": "UNKNOWN",
  "source": "Legacy",
  "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.",
  "pub_date": "November 1986",
  "keywords": [],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC992",
  "errata_url": null
}