stdbadcast

Stdbadcast is a term used in computer science discussions to denote a hypothetical standardized interface for one-to-many message delivery in distributed systems. It is not a formal standard and is rarely used as an implementation name; instead, it serves as an abstraction to compare and design broadcasting capabilities across transport layers.

Overview: The idea of stdbadcast is to provide a uniform API for publishing messages to a designated group, topic, or channel, with pluggable transport backends such as TCP, UDP, or overlay networks. Typical features include group addressing, topic-based filtering, and optional delivery guarantees.

Delivery guarantees can vary by implementation: best-effort typically offers low latency; reliable modes may use acknowledgments and retransmissions; ordering can be none, total, or causal within a group.

Common API patterns include: create_broadcaster(group or channel), publish(message), subscribe(callback or handler), configure(options) where options may set QoS, TTL, and security. Messages may include metadata, timestamps, and keys.

As a conceptual abstraction, implementations differ; there is no universal interface; real systems implement similar capabilities under different names (publish-subscribe, broadcast channels, and streaming APIs). Closest real-world analogs are publish-subscribe systems, message brokers, and multicast in IP networks.

See also: broadcast, multicast, publish-subscribe, message broker, streaming API.