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The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite)

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Network Working Group                                        L-A. Larzon
Request for Comments: 3828                Lulea University of Technology
Category: Standards Track                                   M. Degermark
                                                                 S. Pink
                                               The University of Arizona
                                                       L-E. Jonsson, Ed.
                                                                Ericsson
                                                       G. Fairhurst, Ed.
                                                  University of Aberdeen
                                                               July 2004


           The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite)

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 (2004).

Abstract

   This document describes the Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-
   Lite), which is similar to the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) (RFC
   768), but can also serve applications in error-prone network
   environments that prefer to have partially damaged payloads delivered
   rather than discarded.  If this feature is not used, UDP-Lite is
   semantically identical to UDP.

















Larzon, et al.              Standards Track
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