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SRv6 Extensions for RDMA Multicast Delivery
draft-li-spring-rdma-multicast-over-srv6-00

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Authors Zhiqiang Li , Zongpeng Du , Wei Cheng , Junjie Wang , Guoying Zhang
Last updated 2026-09-01 (Latest revision 2026-02-28)
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Abstract

This document specifies SRv6 (Segment Routing over IPv6) extensions for multicast delivery of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) Reliable Connection (RC) traffic. It defines a new SRv6 endpoint behavior, End.MT, that performs per-receiver RDMA Base Transport Header (BTH) modifications at edge nodes of the multicast tree. It also specifies procedures for hop-by-hop aggregation of RDMA ACK, NACK, and CNP response messages along the reverse path. Together, these extensions allow RDMA RC endpoints to communicate using standard point-to-point Queue Pair (QP) semantics while the network distributes data packets over an IP multicast tree. Target deployment scenarios include multi-replica distributed storage writes, HPC collective communications, AI training parameter distribution, and large-scale inference KV cache distribution.

Authors

Zhiqiang Li
Zongpeng Du
Wei Cheng
Junjie Wang
Guoying Zhang

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