RFC 6458: Sockets API Extensions for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)

This document describes a mapping of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) into a sockets API. The benefits of this mapping include compatibility…

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Outgoing relationships (12 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 3493: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 3758: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Partial Reliability Extension
Normative reference — RFC 4895: Authenticated Chunks for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Normative reference — RFC 5061: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 3542: Advanced Sockets Application Program Interface (API) for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1644: T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions Functional Specification
Informative reference — RFC 6083: Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Informative reference — RFC 1106: TCP big window and NAK options
Informative reference — RFC 6247: Moving the Undeployed TCP Extensions RFC 1072, RFC 1106, RFC 1110, RFC 1145, RFC 1146, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, and RFC 1693 to Historic Status

Incoming relationships (7 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 7657: Differentiated Services (Diffserv) and Real-Time Communication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9260: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6951: UDP Encapsulation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Packets for End-Host to End-Host Communication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8260: Stream Schedulers and User Message Interleaving for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6897: Multipath TCP (MPTCP) Application Interface Considerations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7496: Additional Policies for the Partially Reliable Stream Control Transmission Protocol Extension
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7829: SCTP-PF: A Quick Failover Algorithm for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol