Transport Options for UDP
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Intended status: Standards Track September 12, 2019
Intended updates: 768
Expires: March 2020
Transport Options for UDP
draft-ietf-tsvwg-udp-options-08.txt
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Abstract
Transport protocols are extended through the use of transport header
options. This document extends UDP by indicating the location,
syntax, and semantics for UDP transport layer options.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction...................................................3
2. Conventions used in this document..............................3
3. Background.....................................................3
4. The UDP Option Area............................................4
5. UDP Options....................................................7
5.1. End of Options List (EOL).................................9
5.2. No Operation (NOP).......................................10
5.3. Option Checksum (OCS)....................................10
5.4. Alternate Checksum (ACS).................................11
5.5. Lite (LITE)..............................................12
5.6. Maximum Segment Size (MSS)...............................14
5.7. Fragmentation (FRAG).....................................15
5.8. Coupling FRAG with LITE..................................17
5.9. Timestamps (TIME)........................................18
5.10. Authentication and Encryption (AE)......................19
6. Echo request (REQ) and echo response (RES)....................20
6.1. Experimental (EXP).......................................20
7. Rules for designing new options...............................21
8. Option inclusion and processing...............................22
9. UDP API Extensions............................................24
10. Whose options are these?.....................................24
11. UDP options LITE option vs. UDP-Lite.........................25
12. Interactions with Legacy Devices.............................26
13. Options in a Stateless, Unreliable Transport Protocol........26
14. UDP Option State Caching.....................................27
15. Updates to RFC 768...........................................27
16. Multicast Considerations.....................................27
17. Security Considerations......................................28
18. IANA Considerations..........................................28
19. References...................................................29
19.1. Normative References....................................29
19.2. Informative References..................................29
20. Acknowledgments..............................................31
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Appendix A. Implementation Information...........................32
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