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Stream Control Transmission Protocol
RFC 9260

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2022-10-07
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag, added Verified Errata tag)
2022-06-07
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC9260
2022-06-04
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9260, changed abstract to 'This document describes the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and obsoletes …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9260, changed abstract to 'This document describes the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and obsoletes RFC 4960. It incorporates the specification of the chunk flags registry from RFC 6096 and the specification of the I bit of DATA chunks from RFC 7053. Therefore, RFCs 6096 and 7053 are also obsoleted by this document. In addition, RFCs 4460 and 8540, which describe errata for SCTP, are obsoleted by this document.

SCTP was originally designed to transport Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) signaling messages over IP networks. It is also suited to be used for other applications, for example, WebRTC.

SCTP is a reliable transport protocol operating on top of a connectionless packet network, such as IP. It offers the following services to its users:

The design of SCTP includes appropriate congestion avoidance behavior and resistance to flooding and masquerade attacks.', changed pages to 133, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2022-06-04, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-bis and RFC 4460, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-bis and RFC 4960, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-bis and RFC 6096, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-bis and RFC 7053, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-bis and RFC 8540)
2022-06-04
(System) RFC published