@misc{rfc9706,
    series =    {Request for Comments},
    number =    9706,
    howpublished =  {RFC 9706},
    publisher = {RFC Editor},
    doi =       {10.17487/RFC9706},
    url =       {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9706},
    author =    {Lenny Giuliano and Chris Lenart and Rich Adam},
    title =     {{TreeDN: Tree-Based Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Live Streaming to Mass Audiences}},
    pagetotal = 15,
    year =      2025,
    month =     jan,
    abstract =  {As Internet audience sizes for high-interest live events reach unprecedented levels and bitrates climb to support formats and applications such as 4K, 8K, and Augmented Reality (AR), live streaming can place a unique type of stress upon network resources. TreeDN is a tree-based Content Delivery Network (CDN) architecture designed to address the distinctive scaling challenges of live streaming to mass audiences. TreeDN enables operators to offer Replication-as-a-Service (RaaS) at a fraction of the cost of traditional, unicast-based CDNs -- in some cases, at no additional cost to the infrastructure. In addition to efficiently utilizing network resources to deliver existing multi-destination traffic, this architecture also enables new types of content and use cases that previously were not possible or economically viable using traditional CDN approaches. Finally, TreeDN is a decentralized architecture and a democratizing technology that makes content distribution more accessible to more people by dramatically reducing the costs of replication.},
}