Lossless and overhead free DCCP - UDP header conversion (U-DCCP)
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Transport Area Working Group                                    M. Amend
Internet-Draft                                          Deutsche Telekom
Intended status: Experimental                               A. Brunstrom
Expires: January 9, 2020                                      A. Kassler
                                                     Karlstad University
                                                            V. Rakocevic
                                               City University of London
                                                           July 08, 2019

    Lossless and overhead free DCCP - UDP header conversion (U-DCCP)
            draft-amend-tsvwg-dccp-udp-header-conversion-01

Abstract

   The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is a transport-layer
   protocol that provides upper layers with the ability to use non-
   reliable congestion-controlled flows.  DCCP is not widely deployed in
   the Internet, and the reason for that can be defined as a typical
   example of a chicken-egg problem.  Even if an application developer
   decided to use DCCP, the middle-boxes like firewalls and NATs would
   prevent DCCP end-to-end since they lack support for DCCP.  Moreover,
   as long as the protocol penetration of DCCP does not increase, the
   middle-boxes will not handle DCCP properly.  To overcome this
   challenge, NAT/NATP traversal and UDP encapsulation for DCCP is
   already defined.  However, the former requires special middle-box
   support and the latter introduces overhead.  The recent proposal of a
   multipath extension for DCCP further underlines the challenge of
   efficient middle-box passing as its main goal is to be applied over
   the Internet, traversing numerous uncontrolled middle-boxes.  This
   document introduces a new solution which disguises DCCP during
   transmission as UDP without requiring middle-box modification or
   introducing any overhead.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  U-DCCP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.2.  The DCCP Generic header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.3.  UDP header  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.4.  U-DCCP conversion considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.5.  U-DCCP header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.6.  Implementation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.7.  Pseudo-code DCCP to U-DCCP conversion . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.8.  Pseudo-code U-DCCP to DCCP restoration  . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.9.  U-DCCP negotiation (required????) . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   6.  Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   7.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   8.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

1.  Introduction

   The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) [RFC4340] is a
   transport-layer protocol that provides upper layers with the ability