%% You should probably cite draft-ietf-tsvwg-udp-guidelines instead of this I-D. @techreport{eggert-tsvwg-udp-guidelines-02, number = {draft-eggert-tsvwg-udp-guidelines-02}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eggert-tsvwg-udp-guidelines/02/}, author = {Lars Eggert}, title = {{UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers}}, pagetotal = 12, year = 2007, month = apr, day = 9, abstract = {The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal, message-passing transport that has no inherent congestion control mechanisms. Because congestion control is critical to the stable operation of the Internet, applications and upper-layer protocols that choose to use UDP as an Internet transport must employ mechanisms to prevent congestion collapse and establish some degree of fairness with concurrent traffic. This document provides guidelines on the use of UDP for the designers of such applications and upper-layer protocols that cover congestion-control and other topics, including message sizes and reliability.}, }