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Whatevercast

A proposed RINA concept for the unification of unicast, anycast, multicast and broadcast, based on the observation that communication in a network of N nodes is in general n-to-m, unicast is the case where n=m=1, and broadcast the case where m=N-1. 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 concept to be deceiving; 1:1 multicast is distinct from unicast. Unicast names and Multicast names may look similar, but have to be different classes of names to make this work. See Ouroboros multicast conjecture.