Technical Summary
This document is a compilation of issues found since the
publication of the SCTP protocol specification as RFC 4960
in September 2007 based on experience with implementing,
testing, and using SCTP along with the suggested fixes. It
provides deltas to RFC4960 and is organized in a time-ordered
way. The issues are listed in the order they were brought up.
Because some text is changed several times the last delta in
the text is the one that should be applied. In addition to the
delta, a description of the problem and the details of the
solution are also provided.
Working Group Summary
This document was adopted 22nd August 2016, as an
Informational document to document the intended
changes to the base spec. This follows the same process
used to update RFC 2960 to RFC 4960 (where RFC 4460
documents the changes between the two spec).
Publication of RFC 4460 had the advantage that base spec
implementers updating RFC 2960, did not then have to
derive the changes between the two RFCs. This process
also only required editorial work to complete publication
of RFC 4960. Since this plan had worked well, the
implementers of SCTP requested the WG to proceed in
the same way for the present work. The resulting document
progressed with input from the WG and SCTP implementers
was subject of a WGLC comments in Dec 2017. A revised ID
was presented to TSVWG, and received support for publication.
Document Quality
There are existing implementations of the protocol. People
from the implementer community commented on and reviewed
this ID. The document represents consensus of the TSVWG.
Personnel
Gorry Fairhurst is the Document Shepherd for this document.
Spencer Dawkins is the Responsible Area Director.