3.2.1 Abstract Data Model

This section describes a conceptual model of possible data organization that an implementation maintains to participate in this protocol. The described organization is provided to facilitate the explanation of how the protocol behaves. This document does not mandate that implementations adhere to this model as long as their external behavior is consistent with that described in this document.

Multicast Session Configuration: Configuration information for WDS Multicast Transport Protocol that is stored in temporary storage in the form of (name, value) pairs. The list of metadata information is specified in section 3.2.1.1.

Protocol Parameters: Configuration information that specifies the parameters for the WDS Multicast Transport Protocol and are specified in section 3.2.1.2.

Data Configuration: Configuration information used to keep track of ODATA and RDATA packets received from server. The list of metadata information is specified in section 3.2.1.3.