A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : UDP Usage Guidelines Authors : Lars Eggert Godred Fairhurst Greg Shepherd Filename : draft-tsvwg-rfc5405bis-00.txt Pages : 37 Date : 2014-12-09 Abstract: The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal message-passing transport that has no inherent congestion control mechanisms. Because congestion control is critical to the stable operation of the Internet, applications and other protocols that choose to use UDP as an Internet transport must employ mechanisms to prevent congestion collapse and to establish some degree of fairness with concurrent traffic. They may also need to implement additional mechanisms, depending on how they use UDP. This document provides guidelines on the use of UDP for the designers of applications, tunnels and other protocols that use UDP. Congestion control guidelines are a primary focus, but the document also provides guidance on other topics, including message sizes, reliability, checksums, and middlebox traversal. If published as an RFC, this document will obsolete RFC5405. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tsvwg-rfc5405bis/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tsvwg-rfc5405bis-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt