[ih] Fwd: STD 7, RFC 9293 on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

[vinton cerf]

it is certainly a great consolidation of the evolution since 1974.

v


On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 5:07 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> I'm thinking this is a big deal, historically:
>
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> Subject: STD 7, RFC 9293 on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:58:27 -0700 (PDT)
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>          STD 7
>          RFC 9293
>
>          Title:      Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
>          Author:     W. Eddy, Ed.
>          Status:     Standards Track
>          Stream:     IETF
>          Date:       August 2022
>          Mailbox:    wes at mti-systems.com
>          Pages:      98
>          Obsoletes:  RFC 793, RFC 879, RFC 2873, RFC 6093,
>                      RFC 6429, RFC 6528, RFC 6691
>          Updates:    RFC 1011, RFC 1122, RFC 5961
>          See Also:   STD 7
>
>          I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis-28.txt
>
>          URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9293
>
>          DOI:        10.17487/RFC9293
>
> This document specifies the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).  TCP
> is an important transport-layer protocol in the Internet protocol
> stack, and it 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 RFCs
> 1011 and 1122, and it should be considered as a replacement for the
> portions of those documents 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.
>
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