RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines

The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal message-passing transport that has no inherent congestion control mechanisms. This document provides…

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Outgoing relationships (36 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Normative reference — RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Normative reference — RFC 4821: Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery
Normative reference — RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Normative reference — RFC 5348: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification
Normative reference — RFC 6040: Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification
Normative reference — RFC 6298: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Normative reference — RFC 8084: Network Transport Circuit Breakers
Informative reference — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3550: RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 3551: RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control
Informative reference — RFC 7525: Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Informative reference — RFC 4340: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Informative reference — RFC 6513: Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Informative reference — RFC 6335: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry
Informative reference — RFC 7201: Options for Securing RTP Sessions
Informative reference — RFC 4880: OpenPGP Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 2309: Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 3493: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 6056: Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization
Informative reference — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informative reference — RFC 8083: Multimedia Congestion Control: Circuit Breakers for Unicast RTP Sessions
Informative reference — RFC 4987: TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and Common Mitigations
Informative reference — RFC 2675: IPv6 Jumbograms
Informative reference — RFC 4342: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)
Informative reference — RFC 3124: The Congestion Manager
Informative reference — RFC 919: Broadcasting Internet Datagrams
Informative reference — RFC 4341: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 2: TCP-like Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 8086: GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation
Informative reference — RFC 8087: The Benefits of Using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
Informative reference — RFC 2887: The Reliable Multicast Design Space for Bulk Data Transfer
Informative reference — RFC 6726: FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport
Informative reference — RFC 6773: DCCP-UDP: A Datagram Congestion Control Protocol UDP Encapsulation for NAT Traversal
Informative reference — RFC 6807: Population Count Extensions to Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)

Incoming relationships (42 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 8899: Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for Datagram Transports
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8926: Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9132: Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8900: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8084: Network Transport Circuit Breakers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9301: Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) Control Plane
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8086: GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8087: The Benefits of Using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8303: On the Usage of Transport Features Provided by IETF Transport Protocols
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8855: The Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8130: RTP Payload Format for the Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction Enhanced (MELPe) Codec
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8313: Use of Multicast across Inter-domain Peering Points
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9665: Service Registration Protocol for DNS-Based Service Discovery
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9715: IP Fragmentation Avoidance in DNS over UDP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9956: A Non-Queue-Building Per-Hop Behavior (NQB PHB) for Differentiated Services
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8759: RTP Payload for Timed Text Markup Language (TTML)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8817: RTP Payload Format for Tactical Secure Voice Cryptographic Interoperability Specification (TSVCIS) Codec
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9134: RTP Payload Format for ISO/IEC 21122 (JPEG XS)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9946: The UDP Speed Test Protocol (UDPSTP) for One-Way IP Capacity Metric Measurement
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9959: Careful Resume: Convergence of Congestion Control from Retained State
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8083: Multimedia Congestion Control: Circuit Breakers for Unicast RTP Sessions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9300: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8762: Simple Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9298: Proxying UDP in HTTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8811: DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9331: The Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8799: Limited Domains and Internet Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8931: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Selective Fragment Recovery
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8923: A Minimal Set of Transport Services for End Systems
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8663: MPLS Segment Routing over IP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9097: Metrics and Methods for One-Way IP Capacity
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9622: An Abstract Application Programming Interface (API) for Transport Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9623: Implementing Interfaces to Transport Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9868: Transport Options for UDP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9869: Datagram Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (DPLPMTUD) for UDP Options
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9308: Applicability of the QUIC Transport Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9317: Operational Considerations for Streaming Media
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9601: Propagating Explicit Congestion Notification across IP Tunnel Headers Separated by a Shim
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9664: An EDNS(0) Option to Negotiate Leases on DNS Updates
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9268: IPv6 Minimum Path MTU Hop-by-Hop Option
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9305: Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) Generic Protocol Extension
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9706: TreeDN: Tree-Based Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Live Streaming to Mass Audiences