TCP Extensions for High Performance
RFC 7323, “TCP Extensions for High Performance”, is a Proposed Standard document published in September 2014 by D. Borman, B. Braden, V. Jacobson, R. Scheffenegger. It obsoletes RFC 1323. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document specifies a set of TCP extensions to improve performance over paths with a large bandwidth * delay product and to provide reliable operation over very high-speed paths. It defines the TCP Window Scale (WS) option and the TCP Timestamps (TS) option and their semantics. The Window Scale option is used to support larger receive windows, while the Timestamps option can be used for at least two distinct mechanisms, Protection Against Wrapped Sequences (PAWS) and Round-Trip Time Measurement (RTTM), that are also described herein.
This document obsoletes RFC 1323 and describes changes from it.
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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