ISO/IEC 14476-1:2002

Information technology — Enhanced communications transport protocol: Specification of simplex multicast transport — Part 1:

Scope

This Recommendation | International Standard specifies the Enhanced Communications Transport Protocol (ECTP),
which is a transport protocol designed to support Internet multicast applications over multicast-capable IP networks.
This Recommendation | International Standard specifies the ECTP for the simplex multicast transport connection that
consists of one sender and many receivers. This Recommendation | International Standard specifies the protocol
procedures for the following protocol operations:
a) connection creation with tree creation;
b) multicast data transmission;
c) tree-based reliability control with error detection, retransmission request and retransmission;
d) late join and leave;
e) tree membership maintenance; and
f) connection termination.