RFC 3257 (rfc3257) - Page 1 of 13
Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement
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Network Working Group L. Coene
Request for Comments: 3257 Siemens
Category: Informational April 2002
Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes the applicability of the Stream Control
Transmission Protocol (SCTP). It also contrasts SCTP with the two
dominant transport protocols, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) &
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and gives some guidelines for
when best to use SCTP and when not best to use SCTP.
Table of contents
1. Introduction .................................................. 2
1.1 Terminology .................................................. 2
2 Transport protocols ............................................ 2
2.1 TCP service model ............................................ 2
2.2 SCTP service model ........................................... 3
2.3 UDP service model ............................................ 4
3 SCTP Multihoming issues ........................................ 4
4 SCTP Network Address Translators (NAT) issues [RFC 2663] ........ 5
5 Security Considerations ........................................ 6
5.1 Security issues with TCP ..................................... 6
5.2 Security issues with SCTP .................................... 7
5.3 Security issues with both TCP and SCTP ....................... 8
6 References and related work .................................... 9
7 Acknowledgments ................................................ 10
Appendix A: Major functions provided by SCTP ..................... 11
Editor's Address ................................................. 12
Full Copyright Statement ......................................... 13
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