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The TCP Service Number Option (SNO)
draft-touch-tcpm-sno-09

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Dr. Joseph D. Touch
Last updated 2022-02-02 (Latest revision 2018-07-19)
Replaces draft-touch-tcp-portnames
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Abstract

This document specifies a TCP option for service numbers. The current SYN destination port is used both to indicate the desired service and as a connection demultiplexing field. This option separates those two functions, retaining the current destination port solely for demultiplexing and indicating the service separately in a service number option (SNO). By decoupling these two functions, SNO allows a larger number of concurrent connections for a single service, as might be useful between fixed addresses of proxies.

Authors

Dr. Joseph D. Touch

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