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INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

M. Welzl
D. Ros

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IETF

Source:

ledbat (tsv)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6297

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Abstract

This document provides a survey of transport protocols that aredesigned to have a smaller bandwidth and/or delay impact on standardTCP than standard TCP itself when they share a bottleneck with it.Such protocols could be used for delay-insensitive "background"traffic, as they provide what is sometimes called a "less than" (or"lower than") best-effort service. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.