@techreport{li-spring-rdma-multicast-over-srv6-00, number = {draft-li-spring-rdma-multicast-over-srv6-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-spring-rdma-multicast-over-srv6/00/}, author = {Zhiqiang Li and Zongpeng Du and Wei Cheng and Junjie Wang and Guoying Zhang}, title = {{SRv6 Extensions for RDMA Multicast Delivery}}, pagetotal = 17, year = 2026, month = feb, day = 28, 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.}, }