RFC 6994: Shared Use of Experimental TCP Options

This document describes how the experimental TCP option codepoints can concurrently support multiple TCP extensions, even within the same connection, using a…

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Outgoing relationships (12 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 4727: Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP Headers
Informative reference — RFC 2026: The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3
Informative reference — RFC 2131: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1157: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Informative reference — RFC 1155: Structure and identification of management information for TCP/IP-based internets
Informative reference — RFC 3692: Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful
Informative reference — RFC 951: Bootstrap Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2780: IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers
Informative reference — RFC 6013: TCP Cookie Transactions (TCPCT)

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7974: An Experimental TCP Option for Host Identification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9868: Transport Options for UDP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9768: More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) Feedback in TCP