The Internet community has specified a large number of protocols to date, and these protocols have achieved varying degrees of success. Based on case studies, this document attempts to ascertain factors that contribute to or hinder a protocol's success.

A netstring is a self-delimiting encoding of a string. Netstrings are very easy to generate and to parse. Any string may be encoded as a netstring; there are no restrictions on length or on allowed bytes.

Qpid provides multiple language implementations of the AMQP specification and related technologies including transaction management, queuing, distribution, security, management and heterogeneous multi-platform support for messaging. Currently there is a J

: This paper describes and evaluates Fireflies, a scalable protocol for supporting intrusion-tolerant network overlays. While such a protocol cannot distinguish Byzantine nodes from correct nodes in general, Fireflies provides correct nodes with a reasona

This document describes how to use Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes to efficiently provide and/or augment reliability for bulk data transfer over IP multicast.

Several papers that may be of use

We present the first protocol that reaches asynchronous Byzantine consensus in two communication steps in the common case. We prove that our protocol is optimal in terms of both number of communication steps, and number of processes for two-step consensus

Includes a specification of the protocol in TLA+ which may prove useful.

X. Defago and A. Schiper and P. Urban, TR DSC/2000/036, Dept. of Communication Systems, EPFL

Implementation of the Paxos at War protocol in Java.

The optimistic latency of Byzantine Paxos can be reduced from three communication steps to two, without using public-key cryptography.