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RFC 4336: Problem Statement for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)

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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.

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Document ID
RFC4336
Published
March 2006
Authors
S. Floyd; M. Handley; E. Kohler
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
tsv
Pages
22
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