3.1.2 Timers
Timers are used to retry some name management operations that might initially fail due to contention issues with a name table. This behavior is specified in section 3.1.4.6. Timers are used by RPC to implement resiliency to network outages, as specified in [MS-RPCE]. Timers are present in NetBIOS name operations, as specified in [RFC1001] section 15 and [RFC1002] section 4.2.