RFC 2393 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 1998
WED · 29 JUL 2026
IP Payload Compression Protocol
Overview
RFC 2393, “IP Payload Compression Protocol”, is a Proposed Standard document published in December 1998 by A. Shacham, R. Monsour, R. Pereira, M. Thomas. It has been obsoleted by RFC 3173 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes a protocol intended to provide lossless compression for Internet Protocol datagrams in an Internet environment. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 1998
- RFC 2392 Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators
- RFC 2394 IP Payload Compression Using DEFLATE
- RFC 2391 Load Sharing using IP Network Address Translation
- RFC 2395 IP Payload Compression Using LZS
- RFC 2390 Inverse Address Resolution Protocol
- RFC 2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers : Generic Syntax
- RFC 2389 Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol
- RFC 2397 The "data" URL scheme