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Title : TCP Adaptive User TimeOut (AUTO) Option
Author(s) : F. Gont
Filename : draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-auto-option-00.txt
Pages : 8
Date : 2004-5-19
The original TCP specification (RFC 793) defines a "USER TIMEOUT"
parameter that sets the policy as to when a user connection should be
aborted. However, TCP provides no means of letting users suggest an
abort policy to a remote peer dynamically. Even though a fixed policy
may work well in many cases, there are a number of scenarios where a
fixed USER TIMEOUT value may be inappropriate, and some means of
setting the abort policy dynamically may be necessary for TCP to be
used effectively in such scenarios. This document defines a new TCP
option, which lets a TCP peer suggest a USER TIMEOUT value to a
remote TCP during the connection-establishment phase, and modify it
during the life of a connection, thus adapting TCP's connection-abort
policy as necessary.
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