File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Author:

S. Bradner

Stream:

[Legacy]

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC2556

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Abstract

RFC 1240, "OSI connectionless transport services on top of UDP", was published as a Proposed Standard in June 1991 but at this time there do not seem to be any implementations which follow RFC 1240. In addition there is a growing concern over using UDP-based transport protocols in environments where congestion is a possibility This memo provides information for the Internet community.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.