File formats:

Status:

EXPERIMENTAL

Authors:

O. Bonaventure, Ed.
M. Boucadair, Ed.
S. Gundavelli
S. Seo
B. Hesmans

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tcpm (tsv)

Cite this RFC: TXT  |  XML

DOI:  10.17487/RFC8803

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Abstract

This document specifies an application proxy, called Transport Converter, to assist the deployment of TCP extensions such as Multipath TCP. A Transport Converter may provide conversion service for one or more TCP extensions. The conversion service is provided by means of the 0-RTT TCP Convert Protocol (Convert).

This protocol provides 0-RTT (Zero Round-Trip Time) conversion service since no extra delay is induced by the protocol compared to connections that are not proxied. Also, the Convert Protocol does not require any encapsulation (no tunnels whatsoever).

This specification assumes an explicit model, where the Transport Converter is explicitly configured on hosts. As a sample applicability use case, this document specifies how the Convert Protocol applies for Multipath TCP.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.