RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers

The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal message-passing transport that has no inherent congestion control mechanisms. Because congestion control…

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Outgoing relationships (46 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Normative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Normative reference — RFC 4821: Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery
Normative reference — RFC 4787: Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP
Normative reference — RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Normative reference — RFC 5348: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification
Normative reference — RFC 2988: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Normative reference — RFC 3828: The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite)
Informative reference — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3550: RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 3711: The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
Informative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 4306: Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1112: Host extensions for IP multicasting
Informative reference — RFC 2475: An Architecture for Differentiated Services
Informative reference — RFC 3551: RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control
Informative reference — RFC 4340: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Informative reference — RFC 3851: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message Specification
Informative reference — RFC 3852: Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Informative reference — RFC 2743: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1
Informative reference — RFC 5082: The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
Informative reference — RFC 4880: OpenPGP Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 2309: Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 3493: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 4347: Datagram Transport Layer Security
Informative reference — RFC 3758: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Partial Reliability Extension
Informative reference — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informative reference — RFC 1546: Host Anycasting Service
Informative reference — RFC 2675: IPv6 Jumbograms
Informative reference — RFC 4342: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)
Informative reference — RFC 3124: The Congestion Manager
Informative reference — RFC 3303: Middlebox communication architecture and framework
Informative reference — RFC 4963: IPv4 Reassembly Errors at High Data Rates
Informative reference — RFC 919: Broadcasting Internet Datagrams
Informative reference — RFC 4341: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 2: TCP-like Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 1536: Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes
Informative reference — RFC 3048: Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer
Informative reference — RFC 4654: TCP-Friendly Multicast Congestion Control (TFMCC): Protocol Specification
Informative reference — RFC 3738: Wave and Equation Based Rate Control (WEBRC) Building Block

Incoming relationships (22 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7657: Differentiated Services (Diffserv) and Real-Time Communication
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7510: Encapsulating MPLS in UDP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6263: Application Mechanism for Keeping Alive the NAT Mappings Associated with RTP / RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Flows
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6940: REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) Base Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7478: Web Real-Time Communication Use Cases and Requirements
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7605: Recommendations on Using Assigned Transport Port Numbers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5404: RTP Payload Format for G.719
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5993: RTP Payload Format for Global System for Mobile Communications Half Rate (GSM-HR)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7440: TFTP Windowsize Option
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6709: Design Considerations for Protocol Extensions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6936: Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5555: Mobile IPv6 Support for Dual Stack Hosts and Routers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7641: Observing Resources in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6935: IPv6 and UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7587: RTP Payload Format for the Opus Speech and Audio Codec
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5677: IEEE 802.21 Mobility Services Framework Design (MSFD)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6450: Multicast Ping Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7122: Datagram Convergence Layers for the Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Bundle Protocol and Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP)