A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 7609 Title: IBM's Shared Memory Communications over RDMA (SMC-R) Protocol Author: M. Fox, C. Kassimis, J. Stevens Status: Informational Stream: Independent Date: August 2015 Mailbox: mjfox@us.ibm.com, kassimis@us.ibm.com, sjerry@us.ibm.com Pages: 143 Characters: 326888 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-fox-tcpm-shared-memory-rdma-07.txt URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7609 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7609 This document describes IBM's Shared Memory Communications over RDMA (SMC-R) protocol. This protocol provides Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) communications to TCP endpoints in a manner that is transparent to socket applications. It further provides for dynamic discovery of partner RDMA capabilities and dynamic setup of RDMA connections, as well as transparent high availability and load balancing when redundant RDMA network paths are available. It maintains many of the traditional TCP/IP qualities of service such as filtering that enterprise users demand, as well as TCP socket semantics such as urgent data. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce https://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/search For downloading RFCs, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC