File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

S. Floyd
M. Handley
E. Kohler

Stream:

IETF

Source:

dccp (tsv)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4336

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Abstract

This document describes for the historical record the motivation behind the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), an unreliable transport protocol incorporating end-to-end congestion control. DCCP implements a congestion-controlled, unreliable flow of datagrams for use by applications such as streaming media or on-line games. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.