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RFC 675: Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 7805.

Current document in this lineage: RFC 7805 — Moving Outdated TCP Extensions and TCP-Related Documents to Historic or Informational Status; RFC 9293 — Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

The first detailed specification of TCP; see RFC 793.

Document record

Document ID
RFC675
Published
December 1974
Authors
V. Cerf; Y. Dalal; C. Sunshine
Status
HISTORIC
Stream
Legacy
Area
—
Pages
70
Also known as
—
Obsoleted by:
RFC 7805

Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 18 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 675 (1974)
  2. RFC 721 (1976)
  3. RFC 761 (1980)
  4. RFC 793 (1981)
  5. RFC 813 (1982)
  6. RFC 816 (1982)
  7. RFC 879 (1983)
  8. RFC 896 (1984)
  9. RFC 1078 (1988)
  10. RFC 1948 (1996)
  11. RFC 2873 (2000)
  12. RFC 6013 (2011)
  13. RFC 6093 (2011)
  14. RFC 6429 (2011)
  15. RFC 6528 (2012)
  16. RFC 6691 (2012)
  17. RFC 7805 (2016)
  18. RFC 9293 (2022) ✓

Read the full history of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) →

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