The IESG has received a request from the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions WG (tcpm) to consider the following document: - 'Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification' <draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis-24.txt> as Internet Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the last-c...@ietf.org mailing lists by 2021-08-02. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to i...@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document specifies the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP is an important transport layer protocol in the Internet protocol stack, and has continuously evolved over decades of use and growth of the Internet. Over this time, a number of changes have been made to TCP as it was specified in RFC 793, though these have only been documented in a piecemeal fashion. This document collects and brings those changes together with the protocol specification from RFC 793. This document obsoletes RFC 793, as well as RFCs 879, 2873, 6093, 6429, 6528, and 6691 that updated parts of RFC 793. It updates RFC 1122, and should be considered as a replacement for the portions of that document dealing with TCP requirements. It also updates RFC 5961 by adding a small clarification in reset handling while in the SYN-RECEIVED state. The TCP header control bits from RFC 793 have also been updated based on RFC 3168. RFC EDITOR NOTE: If approved for publication as an RFC, this should be marked additionally as "STD: 7" and replace RFC 793 in that role. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc6633: Deprecation of ICMP Source Quench Messages (Proposed Standard - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)) rfc6298: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer (Proposed Standard - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)) rfc5681: TCP Congestion Control (Draft Standard - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)) rfc3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP (Proposed Standard - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)) rfc2675: IPv6 Jumbograms (Proposed Standard - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)) rfc2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers (Proposed Standard - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)) rfc1191: Path MTU discovery (Draft Standard - Legacy stream) _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
