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Stream Control Transmission Protocol

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Network Working Group                                         R. Stewart
Request for Comments: 2960                                        Q. Xie
Category: Standards Track                                       Motorola
                                                            K. Morneault
                                                                C. Sharp
                                                                   Cisco
                                                         H. Schwarzbauer
                                                                 Siemens
                                                               T. Taylor
                                                         Nortel Networks
                                                               I. Rytina
                                                                Ericsson
                                                                M. Kalla
                                                               Telcordia
                                                                L. Zhang
                                                                    UCLA
                                                               V. Paxson
                                                                   ACIRI
                                                            October 2000


                  Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes the Stream Control Transmission Protocol
   (SCTP).  SCTP is designed to transport PSTN signaling messages over
   IP networks, but is capable of broader applications.

   SCTP is a reliable transport protocol operating on top of a
   connectionless packet network such as IP.  It offers the following
   services to its users:

      -- acknowledged error-free non-duplicated transfer of user data,
      -- data fragmentation to conform to discovered path MTU size,




Stewart, et al.             Standards Track
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