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TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions (tcpm)

Document Date Status IPR AD/Shepherd
Active Internet-Drafts (6 hits)
72 pages
draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-30
More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Feedback in TCP
2024-07-07
AD Evaluation 39
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
Reviews: secdir Early intdir Early secdir Early
Sep 2024
Action Holder: Zaheduzzaman Sarker 39
1 Zaheduzzaman Sarker
Michael Tüxen
19 pages
draft-ietf-tcpm-ack-rate-request-06
TCP ACK Rate Request Option
2024-10-02
I-D Exists
WG Document
Aug 2025

51 pages
draft-ietf-tcpm-generalized-ecn-16
ECN++: Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to TCP Control Packets
2024-10-20
I-D Exists
WG Document : Experimental
Dec 2024

Ian Swett
21 pages
draft-ietf-tcpm-prr-rfc6937bis-13
Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP
2024-11-09
New
I-D Exists
Waiting for WG Chair Go-Ahead : Proposed Standard
Oct 2024

Yoshifumi Nishida
23 pages
draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-edo-14
TCP Extended Data Offset Option
2024-09-05
I-D Exists
WG Document : Proposed Standard
Apr 2025

6 pages
draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-ghost-acks-01
Improve TCP Handling of Out-of-Window Packets to Mitigate Ghost ACKs
2024-10-18
I-D Exists
WG Document
Apr 2025

RFCs (47 hits)
23 pages
RFC 4138
Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
2005-08
Experimental RFC
Updated by rfc5682
Jon Peterson
33 pages
RFC 4614
A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
2006-09
Informational RFC
Obsoleted by rfc7414
Updated by rfc6247
Jon Peterson
18 pages
RFC 4653
Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events Errata
2006-08
Experimental RFC
Lars Eggert
28 pages
RFC 4953
Defending TCP Against Spoofing Attacks
2007-07
Informational RFC
Lars Eggert
19 pages
RFC 4987
TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and Common Mitigations Errata
2007-08
Informational RFC
Lars Eggert
13 pages
RFC 5461
TCP's Reaction to Soft Errors
2009-02
Informational RFC
Lars Eggert
14 pages
RFC 5482
TCP User Timeout Option
2009-03
Proposed Standard RFC
Magnus Westerlund
33 pages
RFC 5562
Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Capability to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets
2009-06
Experimental RFC
Lars Eggert
18 pages
RFC 5681
TCP Congestion Control Errata
2009-09
Draft Standard RFC
Updated by rfc9438
Lars Eggert
19 pages
RFC 5682
Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP
2009-09
Proposed Standard RFC
Lars Eggert
15 pages
RFC 5827
Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
2010-04
Experimental RFC
Lars Eggert
48 pages
RFC 5925
The TCP Authentication Option Errata
2010-06
Proposed Standard RFC
Lars Eggert
15 pages
RFC 5926
Cryptographic Algorithms for the TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO) Errata
2010-06
Proposed Standard RFC
Lars Eggert
36 pages
RFC 5927
ICMP Attacks against TCP
2010-07
Informational RFC
Lars Eggert
19 pages
RFC 5961
Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks Errata
2010-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc9293
Lars Eggert
23 pages
RFC 6069
Making TCP More Robust to Long Connectivity Disruptions (TCP-LCD)
2010-12
Experimental RFC
Lars Eggert
12 pages
RFC 6093
On the Implementation of the TCP Urgent Mechanism
2011-01
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc9293
Lars Eggert
10 pages
RFC 6191
Reducing the TIME-WAIT State Using TCP Timestamps
2011-04
Best Current Practice RFC
Also known as BCP 159
Lars Eggert
4 pages
RFC 6247
Moving the Undeployed TCP Extensions RFC 1072, RFC 1106, RFC 1110, RFC 1145, RFC 1146, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, and RFC 1693 to Historic Status
2011-05
Informational RFC
David Harrington
11 pages
RFC 6298
Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
2011-06
Proposed Standard RFC
Wesley Eddy
7 pages
RFC 6429
TCP Sender Clarification for Persist Condition
2011-12
Informational RFC
Obsoleted by rfc9293
Wesley Eddy
12 pages
RFC 6528
Defending against Sequence Number Attacks
2012-02
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc9293
Wesley Eddy
16 pages
RFC 6582
The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm Errata
2012-04
Proposed Standard RFC
Wesley Eddy
15 pages
RFC 6675
A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) for TCP
2012-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Wesley Eddy
9 pages
RFC 6691
TCP Options and Maximum Segment Size (MSS)
2012-07
Informational RFC
Obsoleted by rfc9293
Wesley Eddy
24 pages
RFC 6928
Increasing TCP's Initial Window
2013-04
Experimental RFC
Martin Stiemerling
16 pages
RFC 6937
Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP
2013-05
Experimental RFC
Martin Stiemerling
11 pages
RFC 6994
Shared Use of Experimental TCP Options
2013-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Martin Stiemerling
49 pages
RFC 7323
TCP Extensions for High Performance Errata
2014-09
Proposed Standard RFC
Martin Stiemerling
26 pages
RFC 7413
TCP Fast Open Errata
2014-12
Experimental RFC
Martin Stiemerling
57 pages
RFC 7414
A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
2015-02
Informational RFC
Updated by rfc7805
Martin Stiemerling
17 pages
RFC 7560
Problem Statement and Requirements for Increased Accuracy in Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Feedback
2015-08
Informational RFC
Martin Stiemerling
21 pages
RFC 7661
Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic
2015-10
Experimental RFC
Martin Stiemerling
15 pages
RFC 7765
TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) RTO Restart
2016-02
Experimental RFC
Martin Stiemerling
8 pages
RFC 7805
Moving Outdated TCP Extensions and TCP-Related Documents to Historic or Informational Status
2016-04
Informational RFC
Martin Stiemerling
17 pages
RFC 8257
Data Center TCP (DCTCP): TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers Errata
2017-10
Informational RFC
Mirja Kühlewind
18 pages
RFC 8312
CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance Networks
2018-02
Informational RFC
Obsoleted by rfc9438
Mirja Kühlewind
12 pages
RFC 8511
TCP Alternative Backoff with ECN (ABE)
2018-12
Experimental RFC
Mirja Kühlewind
47 pages
RFC 8803
0-RTT TCP Convert Protocol
2020-07
Experimental RFC
Mirja Kühlewind
12 pages
RFC 8961
Requirements for Time-Based Loss Detection
2020-11
Best Current Practice RFC
Also known as BCP 233
Martin Duke
29 pages
RFC 8985
The RACK-TLP Loss Detection Algorithm for TCP
2021-02
Proposed Standard RFC
Martin Duke
29 pages
RFC 9040
TCP Control Block Interdependence
2021-07
Informational RFC
Martin Duke
25 pages
RFC 9235
TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO) Test Vectors Errata
2022-05
Informational RFC
Martin Duke
98 pages
RFC 9293
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Errata
2022-08
Internet Standard RFC
Also known as STD 7
Martin Duke
9 pages
RFC 9406
HyStart++: Modified Slow Start for TCP
2023-05
Proposed Standard RFC
Martin Duke
28 pages
RFC 9438
CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks
2023-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Martin Duke
25 pages
RFC 9648
YANG Data Model for TCP
2024-10
Proposed Standard RFC
Martin Duke
Related Internet-Drafts and RFCs (1 hit)
14 pages
draft-touch-tcpm-tcp-syn-ext-opt-13
TCP SYN Extended Option Space Using an Out-of-Band Segment
2024-09-05
I-D Exists