{"draft":"","doc_id":"RFC0992","title":" On communication support for fault tolerant process groups ","authors":["K.P. Birman","T.A. Joseph"],"format":["ASCII","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\/RFC0992","errata_url":null}