Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement
draft-ietf-sigtran-sctp-applicability-08

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft that was ultimately published as RFC 3257.
Author Lode Coene
Last updated 2015-10-14 (Latest revision 2001-11-13)
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draft-ietf-sigtran-sctp-applicability-08 
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        RFC 3257

        Title:      Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability
                    Statement
        Author(s):  L. Coene
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       April 2002
        Mailbox:    lode.coene@siemens.atea.be
        Pages:      13
        Characters: 24198
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-sigtran-sctp-applicability-08.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3257.txt

This document describes the applicability of the Stream Control
Transmission Protocol (SCTP).  It also contrasts SCTP with
the two dominant transport protocols, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) &
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and gives some guidelines for
when best to use SCTP and when not best to use SCTP.

This document is a product of the Signaling Transport Working Group of
the IETF.

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