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INFORMATIONAL (changed from UNKNOWN)

Updated by:

RFC 1141

Authors:

R.T. Braden
D.A. Borman
C. Partridge

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC1071

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Abstract

This RFC summarizes techniques and algorithms for efficiently computing the Internet checksum. It is not a standard, but a set of useful implementation techniques.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.