RFC 9331: The Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)

This specification defines the protocol to be used for a new network service called Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable throughput (L4S). L4S uses an Explicit…

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Outgoing relationships (46 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Normative reference — RFC 6679: Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for RTP over UDP
Normative reference — RFC 4774: Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field
Informative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Informative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 9000: QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport
Informative reference — RFC 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Informative reference — RFC 4340: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Informative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines
Informative reference — RFC 9147: The Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Protocol Version 1.3
Informative reference — RFC 3246: An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)
Informative reference — RFC 5348: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification
Informative reference — RFC 6040: Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification
Informative reference — RFC 5706: Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols and Protocol Extensions
Informative reference — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Informative reference — RFC 8083: Multimedia Congestion Control: Circuit Breakers for Unicast RTP Sessions
Informative reference — RFC 3540: Robust Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Signaling with Nonces
Informative reference — RFC 5129: Explicit Congestion Marking in MPLS
Informative reference — RFC 4342: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)
Informative reference — RFC 9001: Using TLS to Secure QUIC
Informative reference — RFC 3649: HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows
Informative reference — RFC 4341: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 2: TCP-like Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 5033: Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms
Informative reference — RFC 7713: Congestion Exposure (ConEx) Concepts, Abstract Mechanism, and Requirements
Informative reference — RFC 8311: Relaxing Restrictions on Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Experimentation
Informative reference — RFC 5865: A Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) for Capacity-Admitted Traffic
Informative reference — RFC 6660: Encoding Three Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) States in the IP Header Using a Single Diffserv Codepoint (DSCP)
Informative reference — RFC 6675: A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 8033: Proportional Integral Controller Enhanced (PIE): A Lightweight Control Scheme to Address the Bufferbloat Problem
Informative reference — RFC 8290: The Flow Queue CoDel Packet Scheduler and Active Queue Management Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 8312: CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance Networks
Informative reference — RFC 5562: Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Capability to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets
Informative reference — RFC 5622: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion ID 4: TCP-Friendly Rate Control for Small Packets (TFRC-SP)
Informative reference — RFC 8257: Data Center TCP (DCTCP): TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers
Informative reference — RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 8298: Self-Clocked Rate Adaptation for Multimedia
Informative reference — RFC 8511: TCP Alternative Backoff with ECN (ABE)
Informative reference — RFC 8985: The RACK-TLP Loss Detection Algorithm for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 7560: Problem Statement and Requirements for Increased Accuracy in Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Feedback
Informative reference — RFC 8888: RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Feedback for Congestion Control

Incoming relationships (5 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9957: The DOCSIS Queue Protection Algorithm to Preserve Low Latency
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9599: Guidelines for Adding Congestion Notification to Protocols that Encapsulate IP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9600: TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Support
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9601: Propagating Explicit Congestion Notification across IP Tunnel Headers Separated by a Shim
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9956: A Non-Queue-Building Per-Hop Behavior (NQB PHB) for Differentiated Services