RFC 4336
Problem Statement for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), March 2006
- File formats:
- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Authors:
- S. Floyd
M. Handley
E. Kohler - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- dccp (tsv)
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DOI: 10.17487/RFC4336
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Abstract
This document describes for the historical record the motivation behind the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), an unreliable transport protocol incorporating end-to-end congestion control. DCCP implements a congestion-controlled, unreliable flow of datagrams for use by applications such as streaming media or on-line games. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.