RFC 9621
Architecture and Requirements for Transport Services, January 2025
- File formats:
- Also available: XML file for editing
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Authors:
- T. Pauly, Ed.
B. Trammell, Ed.
A. Brunstrom
G. Fairhurst
C. S. Perkins - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- taps (wit)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9621
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Abstract
This document describes an architecture that exposes transport protocol features to applications for network communication. The Transport Services Application Programming Interface (API) is based on an asynchronous, event-driven interaction pattern. This API uses Messages for representing data transfer to applications and describes how a Transport Services Implementation can use multiple IP addresses, multiple protocols, and multiple paths and can provide multiple application streams. This document provides the architecture and requirements. It defines common terminology and concepts to be used in definitions of a Transport Services API and a Transport Services Implementation.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.