%% You should probably cite draft-trammell-plus-statefulness-04 instead of this revision. @techreport{trammell-plus-statefulness-02, number = {draft-trammell-plus-statefulness-02}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-trammell-plus-statefulness/02/}, author = {Mirja Kühlewind and Brian Trammell and Joe Hildebrand}, title = {{Transport-Independent Path Layer State Management}}, pagetotal = 17, year = 2016, month = dec, day = 22, abstract = {This document describes a simple state machine for stateful network devices on a path between two endpoints to associate state with traffic traversing them on a per-flow basis, as well as abstract signaling mechanisms for driving the state machine. This state machine is intended to replace the de-facto use of the TCP state machine or incomplete forms thereof by stateful network devices in a transport-independent way, while still allowing for fast state timeout of non-established or undesirable flows.}, }