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TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification
draft-ietf-tsvwg-tfrc-05

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft that was ultimately published as RFC 3448.
Authors Mark J. Handley , Sally Floyd, Jitendra Padhye , Joerg Widmer
Last updated 2020-01-21 (Latest revision 2002-10-24)
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Intended RFC status Proposed Standard
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draft-ietf-tsvwg-tfrc-05
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        RFC 3448

        Title:      TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC):
                    Protocol Specification
        Author(s):  M. Handley, S. Floyd, J. Padhye, J. Widmer
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       January 2003
        Mailbox:    mjh@icir.org, floyd@icir.org,
                    padhye@microsoft.com,
                    widmer@informatik.uni-mannheim.de
        Pages:      24
        Characters: 52657
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tsvwg-tfrc-05.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3448.txt

This document specifies TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC).  TFRC is a
congestion control mechanism for unicast flows
operating in a best-effort Internet environment.  It is
reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP flows,
but has a much lower variation of throughput over time
compared with TCP, making it more suitable for applications
such as telephony or streaming media where a relatively smooth
sending rate is of importance.

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
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
"Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the
standardization state and status of this protocol.  Distribution
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