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EXPERIMENTAL

Authors:

M. Allman
K. Avrachenkov
U. Ayesta
J. Blanton
P. Hurtig

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tcpm (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5827

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Abstract

This document proposes a new mechanism for TCP and Stream Control TransmissionProtocol (SCTP) that can be used to recover lost segments when a connection'scongestion window is small. The "Early Retransmit" mechanism allows thetransport to reduce, in certain special circumstances, the number of duplicateacknowledgments required to trigger a fast retransmission. This allows thetransport to use fast retransmit to recover segment losses that wouldotherwise require a lengthy retransmission timeout. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.