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RFC 6298
Title: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Author: V. Paxson, M. Allman,
J. Chu, M. Sargent
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: June 2011
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Pages: 11
Characters: 22454
Obsoletes: RFC2988
Updates: RFC1122
I-D Tag: draft-paxson-tcpm-rfc2988bis-02.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6298.txt
This document defines the standard algorithm that Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP) senders are required to use to compute and manage their
retransmission timer. It expands on the discussion in Section 4.2.3.1
of RFC 1122 and upgrades the requirement of supporting the algorithm
from a SHOULD to a MUST. This document obsoletes RFC 2988.
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