The General Event Notification Architecture (GENA) protocol provides for the sending of HTTP Notifications using administratively scoped unreliable Multicast UDP. Multicast UDP allows a single notification to be delivered to a potentially large group of recipients using only a single request.

The RFC for GENA is stored by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

.For information on GENA, see General Event Notification Architecture Base: Client to Arbiter.

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