%% You should probably cite rfc8085 instead of this I-D. @techreport{ietf-tsvwg-rfc5405bis-03, number = {draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc5405bis-03}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc5405bis/03/}, author = {Lars Eggert and Gorry Fairhurst and Greg Shepherd}, title = {{UDP Usage Guidelines}}, pagetotal = 46, year = 2015, month = jul, day = 7, abstract = {The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal message-passing transport that has no inherent congestion control mechanisms. This document provides guidelines on the use of UDP for the designers of applications, tunnels and other protocols that use UDP. Congestion control guidelines are a primary focus, but the document also provides guidance on other topics, including message sizes, reliability, checksums, middlebox traversal, the use of ECN, DSCPs, and ports. Because congestion control is critical to the stable operation of the Internet, applications and other protocols that choose to use UDP as an Internet transport must employ mechanisms to prevent congestion collapse and to establish some degree of fairness with concurrent traffic. They may also need to implement additional mechanisms, depending on how they use UDP. Some guidance is also applicable to the design of other protocols (e.g., protocols layered directly on IP or via IP-based tunnels), especially when these protocols do not themselves provide congestion control. If published as an RFC, this document will obsolete RFC5405.}, }