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Security and Privacy Considerations for Multicast Transports
draft-krose-multicast-security-07

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Kyle Rose , Max Franke , Jake Holland
Last updated 2025-11-08 (Latest revision 2025-05-07)
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Abstract

Interdomain multicast has unique potential to solve delivery scalability for popular content, but it carries a set of security and privacy issues that differ from those in unicast delivery. This document analyzes the security threats unique to multicast-based delivery for Internet and Web traffic under the Internet and Web threat models. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/squarooticus/draft-krose-multicast-security.

Authors

Kyle Rose
Max Franke
Jake Holland

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