RFC 889: Internet Delay Experiments
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This memo reports on some measurements of round-trip times in the Internet and suggests some possible improvements to the TCP retransmission timeout calculation. This memo is both a status report on the Internet and advice to TCP implementers.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC889
- Published
- December 1983
- Authors
- D.L. Mills
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 12
- Also known as
- —
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