RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP

This memo specifies the incorporation of ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) to TCP and IP, including ECN's use of two bits in the IP header.…

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Outgoing relationships (5 related RFCs)

Updates — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Updates — RFC 2401: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Updates — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Updates — RFC 2003: IP Encapsulation within IP
Obsoletes — RFC 2481: A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP

Incoming relationships (111 related RFCs)

Showing 50 of 111 related RFCs.

Updated by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 6040: Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification
Updated by — RFC 8311: Relaxing Restrictions on Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Experimentation
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9768: More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) Feedback in TCP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5213: Proxy Mobile IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5996: Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5766: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6282: Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6830: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6679: Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for RTP over UDP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5415: Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4774: Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5555: Mobile IPv6 Support for Dual Stack Hosts and Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5461: TCP's Reaction to Soft Errors
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6817: Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6660: Encoding Three Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) States in the IP Header Using a Single Diffserv Codepoint (DSCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5127: Aggregation of Diffserv Service Classes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5777: Traffic Classification and Quality of Service (QoS) Attributes for Diameter
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8084: Network Transport Circuit Breakers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8312: CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4898: TCP Extended Statistics MIB
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8087: The Benefits of Using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8257: Data Center TCP (DCTCP): TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9298: Proxying UDP in HTTP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9438: CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7141: Byte and Packet Congestion Notification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9331: The Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3481: TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8656: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7560: Problem Statement and Requirements for Increased Accuracy in Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Feedback
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8304: Transport Features of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Lightweight UDP (UDP-Lite)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8888: RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Feedback for Congestion Control
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9332: Dual-Queue Coupled Active Queue Management (AQM) for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7125: Revision of the tcpControlBits IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Element
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7786: TCP Modifications for Congestion Exposure (ConEx)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8325: Mapping Diffserv to IEEE 802.11
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8698: Network-Assisted Dynamic Adaptation (NADA): A Unified Congestion Control Scheme for Real-Time Media
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9484: Proxying IP in HTTP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9599: Guidelines for Adding Congestion Notification to Protocols that Encapsulate IP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4160: Internet Fax Gateway Requirements
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6627: Overview of Pre-Congestion Notification Encoding
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7837: IPv6 Destination Option for Congestion Exposure (ConEx)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9600: TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Support
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9601: Propagating Explicit Congestion Notification across IP Tunnel Headers Separated by a Shim
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9957: The DOCSIS Queue Protection Algorithm to Preserve Low Latency
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7514: Really Explicit Congestion Notification (RECN)