OSI connectionless transport services on top of UDP Applicability Statement for Historic Status
RFC 2556, “OSI connectionless transport services on top of UDP Applicability Statement for Historic Status”, is an Informational document published in March 1999 by S. Bradner. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
RFC 1240, "OSI connectionless transport services on top of UDP", was published as a Proposed Standard in June 1991 but at this time there do not seem to be any implementations which follow RFC 1240. In addition there is a growing concern over using UDP-based transport protocols in environments where congestion is a possibility This memo provides information for the Internet community.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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