Editing Resource Reservation Protocol (section)

==Main attributes==
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#RSVP requests resources for [[Simplex communication|simplex]] flows: a traffic stream in only one direction from sender to one or more receivers.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-16 |title=Resource Reservation Protocol in Real-time Systems |url=https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/resource-reservation-protocol-in-real-time-systems/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=GeeksforGeeks |language=en-US}}</ref>
#RSVP is not a routing protocol but works with current and future routing protocols.
#RSVP is receiver oriented in that the receiver of a data flow initiates and maintains the resource reservation for that flow.
#RSVP maintains [[soft state (computer science)|soft state]] (the reservation at each node needs a periodic refresh) of the host and routers' resource reservations, hence supporting dynamic automatic adaptation to network changes.
#RSVP provides several reservation styles (a set of reservation options) and allows for future styles to be added in protocol revisions to fit varied applications.
#RSVP transports and maintains traffic and policy control parameters that are opaque to RSVP.{{elucidate|date=October 2019}}