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ISO Transport Class 2 Non-use of Explicit Flow Control over TCP RFC1006 extension
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Network Working Group Y. Pouffary
Request For Comments: 1859 Digital Equipment Corporation
Category: Informational October 1995
ISO Transport Class 2 Non-use of Explicit Flow Control over TCP
RFC 1006 extension
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction - General recommendations.......................2
2. The protocol.................................................3
2.1 TCP service as a Network Service - The Primitives...........3
2.2 Connection Establishment....................................4
2.3 Data Transfer...............................................5
2.4 Connection Release..........................................6
3. Packet Format................................................6
4. DIGITAL DECnet over TCP/IP...................................8
Acknowledgements................................................9
References......................................................9
Author's Address................................................9
1. Introduction - General recommendations
This document is an extension to STD35, RFC 1006, a standard for the
Internet community. The document does not duplicate the protocol
definitions contained in RFC 1006 and in International Standard ISO
8073. It supplements that information with the description of how to
implement ISO Transport Class 2 Non-use of Explicit Flow Control on
top of TCP.
The document should be used in conjunction with the RFC 1006 and ISO
8073.
The RFC 1006 standard defines how to implement ISO 8073 Transport
Class 0 on top of TCP. This memo defines how to implement ISO 8073
Transport Class 2 Non-use of Explicit Flow Control on top of TCP.
Like ISO Transport Class 0, Class 2 Non-use of Explicit Flow Control
provides basic connection with minimal overhead.
A Transport protocol class is selected for a particular Transport
connection based upon the characteristics of the lower layers and the
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