Increasing TCP's Initial Window
draft-ietf-tsvwg-initwin-04

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        RFC 3390
                         
        Title:      Increasing TCP's Initial Window
        Author(s):  M. Allman, S. Floyd, C. Partridge
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       October 2002
        Mailbox:    mallman@bbn.com, floyd@icir.org, craig@bbn.com
        Pages:      15
        Characters: 36177
        Obsoletes:  2414
        Updtes:     2581
                         
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tsvwg-initwin-04.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3390.txt

This document specifies an optional standard for TCP to increase the
permitted initial window from one or two segment(s) to roughly 4K
bytes, replacing RFC 2414.  It discusses the advantages and
disadvantages of the higher initial window, and includes discussion of
experiments and simulations showing that the higher initial window
does not lead to congestion collapse.  Finally, this document provides
guidance on implementation issues. 

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

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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