Dissemination fairness is the property of a market-data distribution that recipients in the same service receive each message at the same time, up to a spread that does not depend on who they are: measured by the spread of receive times for one message and by whether the order of recipients persists from one message to the next.
fig_asia.py, nw_asia.rank_curve().| Design | First | Median | Spread | Rank | First beats |
| () | () | () | correlation | median | |
| Unicast, fixed login order | 16.0 | 65.6 | 107.7 | 1.00 | 100% |
| Unicast, randomised | 15.1 | 70.7 | 110.2 | 0.07 | 88% |
| Unicast, randomised, no secondary | 15.2 | 69.0 | 106.9 | 0.01 | 51% |
| Multicast | 10.0 | 10.7 | 8.4 | – | 50% |
nw_asia.scenarios().