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<reference anchor="I-D.briscoe-tcpm-inner-space" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-briscoe-tcpm-inner-space-01">
   <front>
      <title>Inner Space for TCP Options</title>
      <author initials="B." surname="Briscoe" fullname="Bob Briscoe">
         <organization>BT</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="October" day="27" year="2014" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document describes an experimental method to extend the limited
   space for control options in every segment of a TCP connection.  It
   can use a dual handshake so that, from the very first SYN segment,
   extra option space can immediately start to be used optimistically.
   At the same time a dual handshake prevents a legacy server from
   getting confused and sending the control options to the application
   as user-data.  The dual handshake is only one strategy - a single
   handshake will usually suffice once deployment has got started.  The
   protocol is designed to traverse most known middleboxes including
   connection splitters, because it sits wholly within the TCP Data.  It
   also provides reliable ordered delivery for control options.
   Therefore, it should allow new TCP options to be introduced i) with
   minimal middlebox traversal problems; ii) with incremental deployment
   from legacy servers; iii) without an extra round of handshaking delay
   iv) without having to provide its own loss recovery and ordering
   mechanism and v) without arbitrary limits on available space.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-briscoe-tcpm-inner-space-01" />
   
</reference>
