RFC 6824: TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses

TCP/IP communication is currently restricted to a single path per connection, yet multiple paths often exist between peers. The simultaneous use of these…

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Outgoing relationships (15 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 6182: Architectural Guidelines for Multipath TCP Development
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Informative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Informative reference — RFC 6234: US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)
Informative reference — RFC 3022: Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)
Informative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance
Informative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Informative reference — RFC 3135: Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-Related Degradations
Informative reference — RFC 2979: Behavior of and Requirements for Internet Firewalls
Informative reference — RFC 6181: Threat Analysis for TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 6356: Coupled Congestion Control for Multipath Transport Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 2992: Analysis of an Equal-Cost Multi-Path Algorithm

Incoming relationships (14 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 8684: TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8303: On the Usage of Transport Features Provided by IETF Transport Protocols
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8368: Using an Autonomic Control Plane for Stable Connectivity of Network Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6897: Multipath TCP (MPTCP) Application Interface Considerations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7430: Analysis of Residual Threats and Possible Fixes for Multipath TCP (MPTCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8095: Services Provided by IETF Transport Protocols and Congestion Control Mechanisms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7416: A Security Threat Analysis for the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPLs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7828: The edns-tcp-keepalive EDNS0 Option
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8994: An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6978: A TCP Authentication Option Extension for NAT Traversal
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8743: Multiple Access Management Services Multi-Access Management Services (MAMS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7974: An Experimental TCP Option for Host Identification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8678: Enterprise Multihoming using Provider-Assigned IPv6 Addresses without Network Prefix Translation: Requirements and Solutions