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Whatevercast

A proposed RINA concept that maps a RINA name to a set of destination names and/or addresses. It purports to "unify unicast and multicast", based on the observation that communication in a network of N nodes is in general n-to-m, and unicast is just the case where n=m=1, and broadcast the case where m=N-1. Basically the proposed API is allocate(whatevercastname) and the network will resolve things for you because the 'whatevercast name' has a set of rules associated with it to resolve the destination addresses. We found this to be flawed; 1:1 multicast is distinct from unicast.