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PROPOSED STANDARD

Updated by:

RFC 5595,RFC 5596,RFC 6335,RFC 6773

Authors:

E. Kohler
M. Handley
S. Floyd

Stream:

IETF

Source:

dccp (tsv)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4340

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Abstract

The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is a transportprotocol that provides bidirectional unicast connections ofcongestion-controlled unreliable datagrams. DCCP is suitable forapplications that transfer fairly large amounts of data and that canbenefit from control over the tradeoff between timeliness andreliability. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.