RFC 2481: A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP

This note describes a proposed addition of ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) to IP. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

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Outgoing relationships (11 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Informative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Informative reference — RFC 2406: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 2402: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 2309: Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 1349: Type of Service in the Internet Protocol Suite
Informative reference — RFC 2001: TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms
Informative reference — RFC 1141: Incremental updating of the Internet checksum
Informative reference — RFC 1455: Physical Link Security Type of Service

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3360: Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered Harmful
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6040: Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3042: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2780: IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3124: The Congestion Manager
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3148: A Framework for Defining Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity Metrics
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2757: Long Thin Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2760: Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites