The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Features of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Lightweight UDP (UDP- Lite) Transport Protocols' (draft-ietf-taps-transports-usage-udp-07.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Transport Services Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Mirja Kühlewind and Spencer Dawkins. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-taps-transports-usage-udp/ Technical Summary This document describes well established function calls as "primitives" that any program can use to get automated transport services from the UDP and UDP-lite transport protocols. These primitives are services provided by the standards-track versions of the corresponding protocols. The working group believes the primitives will be useful for users of a transport service implementation. Working Group Summary The primitives for UDP and UDP-lite were initially intended to be part of draft-ietf-transport-usage, however working group agreed to have a smaller document for these protocols, because the authors providing descriptions for these protocols had little overlap with the authors of draft-ietf-transport-usage, and the split allowed for better review by readers with expertise in these protocols. As this document describes primitives based on what already available in standards-track RFCs for those protocol it was straightforward to get consensus on the primitives. Document Quality All versions of this document got a fair amount of discussion on the working group mailing list, were well reviewed and got positive feedback during working group last call. Personnel The document shepherd is Zaheduzzaman Sarker. The responsible Area Director is Spencer Dawkins.
