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Towards Reliability

Due to the redundancy inherent in the data distribution model - namely that a user that continues typing will refresh and repair earlier packet losses on the same line of text - nte will often perform acceptably with no mechanism for ensuring reliability. However, there are also many situations where this is not the case, and so we need a mechanism to detect and repair the resulting inconsistencies.

Inconsistencies may result from:



Jon CROWCROFT
1998-12-03