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RFC 8517
Title: An Inventory of Transport-Centric Functions
Provided by Middleboxes: An Operator Perspective
Author: D. Dolson, Ed.,
J. Snellman,
M. Boucadair, Ed.,
C. Jacquenet
Status: Informational
Stream: Independent
Date: February 2019
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Pages: 21
Characters: 46317
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-dolson-transport-middlebox-05.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8517
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8517
This document summarizes an operator's perception of the benefits
that may be provided by intermediary devices that execute functions
beyond normal IP forwarding. Such intermediary devices are often
called "middleboxes".
RFC 3234 defines a taxonomy of middleboxes and issues in the
Internet. Most of those middleboxes utilize or modify application-
layer data. This document primarily focuses on devices that observe
and act on information carried in the transport layer, and especially
information carried in TCP packets.
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