File formats:

Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 3782

Authors:

T. Henderson
S. Floyd
A. Gurtov
Y. Nishida

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tcpm (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6582

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Abstract

RFC 5681 documents the following four intertwined TCP congestion control algorithms: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery. RFC 5681 explicitly allows certain modifications of these algorithms, including modifications that use the TCP Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) option (RFC 2883), and modifications that respond to "partial acknowledgments" (ACKs that cover new data, but not all the data outstanding when loss was detected) in the absence of SACK. This document describes a specific algorithm for responding to partial acknowledgments, referred to as "NewReno". This response to partial acknowledgments was first proposed by Janey Hoe. This document obsoletes RFC 3782. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.