rfc-4340

Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)

E. Kohler, M. Handley, S. Floyd

date2006-03 streamIETF areatsv wgdccp statusPROPOSED STANDARD pages129 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4340 doi10.17487/RFC4340 errataview

The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is a transport protocol that provides bidirectional unicast connections of congestion-controlled unreliable datagrams. DCCP is suitable for applications that transfer fairly large amounts of data and that can benefit from control over the tradeoff between timeliness and reliability. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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