RFC 9260: Stream Control Transmission Protocol

This document describes the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and obsoletes RFC 4960. It incorporates the specification of the chunk flags registry…

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Outgoing relationships (37 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 4460: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Specification Errata and Issues
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 7053: SACK-IMMEDIATELY Extension for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 6096: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Chunk Flags Registration
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 8540: Stream Control Transmission Protocol: Errata and Issues in RFC 4960
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Normative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Normative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Normative reference — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 1123: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support
Normative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Normative reference — RFC 7296: Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Normative reference — RFC 6335: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry
Normative reference — RFC 8201: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Normative reference — RFC 1982: Serial Number Arithmetic
Normative reference — RFC 8899: Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for Datagram Transports
Normative reference — RFC 4895: Authenticated Chunks for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Normative reference — RFC 6083: Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security
Informative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1858: Security Considerations for IP Fragment Filtering
Informative reference — RFC 2522: Photuris: Session-Key Management Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3465: TCP Congestion Control with Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC)
Informative reference — RFC 2196: Site Security Handbook
Informative reference — RFC 6951: UDP Encapsulation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Packets for End-Host to End-Host Communication
Informative reference — RFC 6458: Sockets API Extensions for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Informative reference — RFC 8261: Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Encapsulation of SCTP Packets
Informative reference — RFC 3873: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Management Information Base (MIB)
Informative reference — RFC 8260: Stream Schedulers and User Message Interleaving for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Incoming relationships (11 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9693: Benchmarking Methodology for Stateful NATxy Gateways
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9438: CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9911: Common YANG Data Types
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9244: Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Telemetry
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9530: Digest Fields
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9406: HyStart++: Modified Slow Start for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9868: Transport Options for UDP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9317: Operational Considerations for Streaming Media
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9870: Export of UDP Options Information in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9710: Simple Fixes to the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Entities IANA Registry
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9768: More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) Feedback in TCP