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PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

R. Stewart
M. Tuexen
S. Loreto
R. Seggelmann

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IETF

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tsvwg (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8260

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Abstract

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a message-orientedtransport protocol supporting arbitrarily large user messages. Thisdocument adds a new chunk to SCTP for carrying payload data. Thisallows a sender to interleave different user messages that wouldotherwise result in head-of-line blocking at the sender. Theinterleaving of user messages is required for WebRTC data channels.

Whenever an SCTP sender is allowed to send user data, it may choosefrom multiple outgoing SCTP streams. Multiple ways for performingthis selection, called stream schedulers, are defined in thisdocument. A stream scheduler can choose to either implement, or notimplement, user message interleaving.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.