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From: jkrey@ISI.EDU (Joyce K. Reynolds)
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Subject: RFC1112 Now Available
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Date: 16 Aug 89 00:03:22 GMT
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A new Request for Comments is now available from the Network Information
Center in the online library at NIC.DDN.MIL.

	RFC 1112:

        Title:      Host Extensions for IP Multicasting
       	Author:     S. Deering
	Mailbox:    deering@PESCADERO.STANFORD.EDU
	Pages:      17
	Characters: 39,904

		pathname: RFC:RFC1112.TXT


This memo specifies the extensions required of a host implementation
of the Internet Protocol (IP) to support multicasting.  It is the
recommended standard for IP multicasting in the Internet.  This RFC
obsoletes RFCs 998 and 1054.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

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Joyce K. Reynolds