RFC 1185: TCP Extension for High-Speed Paths
This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 1323.
Current document in this lineage: RFC 2018 — TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options; RFC 6247 — Moving the Undeployed TCP Extensions RFC 1072, RFC 1106, RFC 1110, RFC 1145, RFC 1146, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, and RFC 1693 to Historic Status; RFC 7323 — TCP Extensions for High Performance
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This memo describes an Experimental Protocol extension to TCP for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status of this protocol.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC1185
- Published
- October 1990
- Authors
- V. Jacobson; R.T. Braden; L. Zhang
- Status
- EXPERIMENTAL
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 21
- Also known as
- —
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 1323
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 13 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
- RFC 1072 (1988)
- RFC 1106 (1989)
- RFC 1110 (1989)
- RFC 1145 (1990)
- RFC 1146 (1990)
- RFC 1185 (1990)
- RFC 1323 (1992)
- RFC 1379 (1992)
- RFC 1644 (1994)
- RFC 1693 (1994)
- RFC 2018 (1996)
- RFC 6247 (2011)
- RFC 7323 (2014) ✓
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