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Stream Control Transmission Protocol
draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-bis-04

The information below is for an old version of the document.
Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (tsvwg WG)
Authors Randall R. Stewart , Michael Tüxen , Karen Nielsen
Last updated 2020-01-27 (Latest revision 2019-07-26)
Stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Sep 2021
Submit "Stream Control Transmission Protocol" aka RFC4960.bis as a Proposed Standard RFC
Document shepherd Gorry Fairhurst
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft can be found at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-bis-04.txt

Abstract

This document obsoletes RFC 4960, if approved. It describes the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). SCTP is designed to transport Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) signaling messages over IP networks, but is capable of broader applications. SCTP is a reliable transport protocol operating on top of a connectionless packet network such as IP. It offers the following services to its users: o acknowledged error-free non-duplicated transfer of user data, o data fragmentation to conform to discovered path MTU size, o sequenced delivery of user messages within multiple streams, with an option for order-of-arrival delivery of individual user messages, o optional bundling of multiple user messages into a single SCTP packet, and o network-level fault tolerance through supporting of multi-homing at either or both ends of an association. The design of SCTP includes appropriate congestion avoidance behavior and resistance to flooding and masquerade attacks.

Authors

Randall R. Stewart
Michael Tüxen
Karen Nielsen

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