RFC 8095 · INFORMATIONAL · 2017

Services Provided by IETF Transport Protocols and Congestion Control Mechanisms

Overview

RFC 8095, “Services Provided by IETF Transport Protocols and Congestion Control Mechanisms”, is an Informational document published in March 2017 by G. Fairhurst, B. Trammell, M. Kuehlewind. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes, surveys, and classifies the protocol mechanisms provided by existing IETF protocols, as background for determining a common set of transport services. It examines the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Multipath TCP, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), UDP-Lite, the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP), File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport / Asynchronous Layered Coding (FLUTE/ALC) for Reliable Multicast, NACK- Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Datagram TLS (DTLS), and the Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP), when HTTP is used as a pseudotransport. This survey provides background for the definition of transport services within the TAPS working group.

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