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GameNetworkingSockets is a basic transport layer for games. A reliability layer significantly more sophisticated than a basic TCP-style sliding window. It is based on the "ack vector" model from DCCP (RFC 4340, section 11.4) and Google QUIC and discussed in the context of games by Glenn Fiedler. The basic idea is for the receiver to efficiently communicate to the sender the status of every packet number (whether or not a packet was received with that number). By remembering which segments were sent in each packet, the sender can deduce which segments need to be retransmitted. ...

It's a supporting service for Nagios, which enables the Nagios Admin {& Contact.cfg's Moderator} to ACK any Alert/Notification mailed to them by just forwarding that mail to a GMail-id owned by them. One ID can be used for multiple Nagios Servers.