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draft-ietf-taps-transports-usage-09
TAPS                                                            M. Welzl
Internet-Draft                                        University of Oslo
Intended status: Informational                                 M. Tuexen
Expires: April 29, 2018                 Muenster Univ. of Appl. Sciences
                                                              N. Khademi
                                                      University of Oslo
                                                        October 26, 2017

On the Usage of Transport Features Provided by IETF Transport Protocols
                  draft-ietf-taps-transports-usage-09

Abstract

   This document describes how the transport protocols Transmission
   Control Protocol (TCP), MultiPath TCP (MPTCP), Stream Control
   Transmission Protocol (SCTP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and
   Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite) expose services to
   applications and how an application can configure and use the
   features that make up these services.  It also discusses the service
   provided by the Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)
   congestion control mechanism.  The description results in a set of
   transport abstractions that can be exported in a TAPS API.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Pass 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.1.  Primitives Provided by TCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
       3.1.1.  Excluded Primitives or Parameters  . . . . . . . . . .  9
     3.2.  Primitives Provided by MPTCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     3.3.  Primitives Provided by SCTP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       3.3.1.  Excluded Primitives or Parameters  . . . . . . . . . . 18
     3.4.  Primitives Provided by UDP and UDP-Lite  . . . . . . . . . 18
     3.5.  The service of LEDBAT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
   4.  Pass 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     4.1.  CONNECTION Related Primitives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
     4.2.  DATA Transfer Related Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
   5.  Pass 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
     5.1.  CONNECTION Related Transport Features  . . . . . . . . . . 41
     5.2.  DATA Transfer Related Transport Features . . . . . . . . . 47
       5.2.1.  Sending Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
       5.2.2.  Receiving Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
       5.2.3.  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
   6.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
   7.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
   8.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
   9.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
     9.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
     9.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
   Appendix A.  Overview of RFCs used as input for pass 1 . . . . . . 53
   Appendix B.  How this document was developed . . . . . . . . . . . 54
   Appendix C.  Revision information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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1.  Terminology

   Transport Feature:  a specific end-to-end feature that the transport
      layer provides to an application.  Examples include
      confidentiality, reliable delivery, ordered delivery, message-
      versus-stream orientation, etc.
   Transport Service:  a set of Transport Features, without an
      association to any given framing protocol, which provides a
      complete service to an application.
   Transport Protocol:  an implementation that provides one or more
      transport services using a specific framing and header format on
      the wire.
   Transport Protocol Component:  an implementation of a Transport
      Feature within a protocol.
   Transport Service Instance:  an arrangement of transport protocols
      with a selected set of features and configuration parameters that
      implements a single transport service, e.g., a protocol stack (RTP
      over UDP).
   Application:  an entity that uses the transport layer for end-to-end
      delivery of data across the network (this may also be an upper
      layer protocol or tunnel encapsulation).
   Endpoint:  an entity that communicates with one or more other
      endpoints using a transport protocol.
   Connection:  shared state of two or more endpoints that persists
      across messages that are transmitted between these endpoints.
   Primitive:  a function call that is used to locally communicate
      between an application and a transport endpoint.  A primitive is
      related to one or more Transport Features.
   Event:  a primitive that is invoked by a transport endpoint.
   Parameter:  a value passed between an application and a transport
      protocol by a primitive.
   Socket:  the combination of a destination IP address and a
      destination port number.
   Transport Address:  the combination of an IP address, transport
      protocol and the port number used by the transport protocol.

2.  Introduction

   This specification describes an abstract interface for applications
   to make use of Transport Services, such that applications are no
   longer directly tied to a specific protocol.  Breaking this strict
   connection can reduce the effort for an application programmer, yet
   attain greater transport flexibility by pushing complexity into an
   underlying Transport Services (TAPS) system.

   This design process has started with a survey of the services
   provided by IETF transport protocols and congestion control

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   mechanisms [RFC8095].  The present document and [FJ16] complement
   this survey with an in-depth look at the defined interactions between
   applications and the following unicast transport protocols:
   Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), MultiPath TCP (MPTCP), Stream
   Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP),
   Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite).  We also define a
   primitive to enable/disable and configure the Low Extra Delay
   Background Transport (LEDBAT) unicast congestion control mechanism.
   For UDP and UDP-Lite, the first step of the protocol analysis -- a
   discussion of relevant RFC text -- is documented in [FJ16].

   This snapshot in time analysis of the IETF transport protocols is
   published as an RFC to document the authors' and working group's
   analysis, generating a set of transport abstractions that can be
   exported in a TAPS API.  It provides the basis for the minimal set of
   transport services that end systems supporting TAPS should implement
   [I-D.draft-gjessing-taps-minset].

   The list of primitives, events and transport features in this
   document is strictly based on the parts of protocol specifications
   that describe what the protocol provides to an application using it
   and how the application interacts with it.  Transport protocols
   provide communication between processes that operate on network
   endpoints, which means that they allow for multiplexing of
   communication between the same IP addresses, and this multiplexing is
   achieved using port numbers.  Port multiplexing is therefore assumed
   to be always provided and not discussed in this document.

   Parts of a protocol that are explicitly stated as optional to
   implement are not covered.  Interactions between the application and
   a transport protocol that are not directly related to the operation
   of the protocol are also not covered.  For example, there are various
   ways for an application to use socket options to indicate its
   interest in receiving certain notifications [RFC6458].  However, for
   the purpose of identifying primitives, events and transport features,
   the ability to enable or disable the reception of notifications is
   irrelevant.  Similarly, "one-to-many style sockets" [RFC6458] just
   affect the application programming style, not how the underlying
   protocol operates, and they are therefore not discussed here.  The
   same is true for the ability to obtain the unchanged value of a
   parameter that an application has previously set (e.g.,via "get" in
   get/set operations [RFC6458]).

   The document presents a three-pass process to arrive at a list of
   transport features.  In the first pass, the relevant RFC text is
   discussed per protocol.  In the second pass, this discussion is used
   to derive a list of primitives and events that are uniformly
   categorized across protocols.  Here, an attempt is made to present or

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   -- where text describing primitives or events does not yet exist --
   construct primitives or events in a slightly generalized form to
   highlight similarities.  This is, for example, achieved by renaming
   primitives or events of protocols or by avoiding a strict 1:1-mapping
   between the primitives or events in the protocol specification and
   primitives or events in the list.  Finally, the third pass presents
   transport features based on pass 2, identifying which protocols
   implement them.

   In the list resulting from the second pass, some transport features
   are missing because they are implicit in some protocols, and they
   only become explicit when we consider the superset of all transport
   features offered by all protocols.  For example, TCP always carries
   out congestion control; we have to consider it together with a
   protocol like UDP (which does not have congestion control) before we
   can consider congestion control as a transport feature.  The complete
   list of transport features across all protocols is therefore only
   available after pass 3.

   Some protocols are connection-oriented.  Connection-oriented
   protocols often use an initial call to a specific primitive to open a
   connection before communication can progress, and require
   communication to be explicitly terminated by issuing another call to
   a primitive (usually called "close").  A "connection" is the common
   state that some transport primitives refer to, e.g., to adjust
   general configuration settings.  Connection establishment,
   maintenance and termination are therefore used to categorize
   transport primitives of connection-oriented transport protocols in
   pass 2 and pass 3.  For this purpose, UDP is assumed to be used with
   "connected" sockets, i.e. sockets that are bound to a specific pair
   of addresses and ports [FJ16].

3.  Pass 1

   This first iteration summarizes the relevant text parts of the RFCs
   describing the protocols, focusing on what each transport protocol
   provides to the application and how it is used (abstract API
   descriptions, where they are available).  When presenting primitives,
   events and parameters, the use of lower- and upper-case characters is
   made uniform for the sake of readability.

3.1.  Primitives Provided by TCP

   The initial TCP specification [RFC0793] states: "The Transmission
   Control Protocol (TCP) is intended for use as a highly reliable host-
   to-host protocol between hosts in packet-switched computer
   communication networks, and in interconnected systems of such

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   networks".  Section 3.8 in this specification [RFC0793] further
   specifies the interaction with the application by listing several
   transport primitives.  It is also assumed that an Operating System
   provides a means for TCP to asynchronously signal the application;
   the primitives representing such signals are called 'events' in this
   section.  This section describes the relevant primitives.

   Open:  this is either active or passive, to initiate a connection or
      listen for incoming connections.  All other primitives are
      associated with a specific connection, which is assumed to first
      have been opened.  An active open call contains a socket.  A
      passive open call with a socket waits for a particular connection;
      alternatively, a passive open call can leave the socket
      unspecified to accept any incoming connection.  A fully specified
      passive call can later be made active by calling 'Send'.
      Optionally, a timeout can be specified, after which TCP will abort
      the connection if data has not been successfully delivered to the
      destination (else a default timeout value is used).  A procedure
      for aborting the connection is used to avoid excessive
      retransmissions, and an application is able to control the
      threshold used to determine the condition for aborting; this
      threshold may be measured in time units or as a count of
      retransmission [RFC1122].  This indicates that the timeout could
      also be specified as a count of retransmission.

      Also optional, for multihomed hosts, the local IP address can be
      provided [RFC1122].  If it is not provided, a default choice will
      be made in case of active open calls.  A passive open call will
      await incoming connection requests to all local addresses and then
      maintain usage of the local IP address where the incoming
      connection request has arrived.  Finally, the 'options' parameter
      allows the application to specify IP options such as source route,
      record route, or timestamp [RFC1122].  It is not stated on which
      segments of a connection these options should be applied, but
      probably all segments, as this is also stated in a specification
      given for the usage of source route (section 4.2.3.8 of
      [RFC1122]).  Source route is the only non-optional IP option in
      this parameter, allowing an application to specify a source route
      when it actively opens a TCP connection.

      Master Key Tuples (MKTs) for authentication can optionally be
      configured when calling open (section 7.1 of [RFC5925]).  When
      authentication is in use, complete TCP segments are authenticated,
      including the TCP IPv4 pseudoheader, TCP header, and TCP data.

      TCP Fast Open (TFO) [RFC7413] allows applications to immediately
      hand over a message from the active open to the passive open side
      of a TCP connection together with the first message establishment

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      packet (the SYN).  This can be useful for applications that are
      sensitive to TCP's connection setup delay.  [RFC7413] states that
      "TCP implementations MUST NOT use TFO by default, but only use TFO
      if requested explicitly by the application on a per-service-port
      basis".  The size of the message sent with TFO cannot be more than
      TCP's maximum segment size (minus options used in the SYN).  For
      the active open side, it is recommended to change or replace the
      connect() call in order to support a user data buffer argument
      [RFC7413].  For the passive open side, the application needs to
      enable the reception of Fast Open requests, e.g. via a new
      TCP_FASTOPEN setsockopt() socket option before listen().  The
      receiving application must be prepared to accept duplicates of the
      TFO message, as the first data written to a socket can be
      delivered more than once to the application on the remote host.

   Send:  this is the primitive that an application uses to give the
      local TCP transport endpoint a number of bytes that TCP should
      reliably send to the other side of the connection.  The 'urgent'
      flag, if set, states that the data handed over by this send call
      is urgent and this urgency should be indicated to the receiving
      process in case the receiving application has not yet consumed all
      non-urgent data preceding it.  An optional timeout parameter can
      be provided that updates the connection's timeout (see 'open').
      Additionally, optional parameters allow to indicate the preferred
      outgoing MKT (current_key) and/or the preferred incoming MKT
      (rnext_key) of a connection (section 7.1 of [RFC5925]).

   Receive:  This primitive allocates a receiving buffer for a provided
      number of bytes.  It returns the number of received bytes provided
      in the buffer when these bytes have been received and written into
      the buffer by TCP.  The application is informed of urgent data via
      an 'urgent' flag: if it is on, there is urgent data.  If it is
      off, there is no urgent data or this call to 'receive' has
      returned all the urgent data.  The application is also informed
      about the current_key and rnext_key information carried in a
      recently received segment via an optional parameter (section 7.1
      of [RFC5925]).

   Close:  This primitive closes one side of a connection.  It is
      semantically equivalent to "I have no more data to send" but does
      not mean "I will not receive any more", as the other side may
      still have data to send.  This call reliably delivers any data
      that has already been given to TCP (and if that fails, 'close'
      becomes 'abort').

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   Abort:  This primitive causes all pending 'send' and 'receive' calls
      to be aborted.  A TCP "RESET" message is sent to the TCP endpoint
      on the other side of the connection [RFC0793].

   Close Event:  TCP uses this primitive to inform an application that
      the application on the other side has called the 'close'
      primitive, so the local application can also issue a 'close' and
      terminate the connection gracefully.  See [RFC0793], Section 3.5.

   Abort Event:  When TCP aborts a connection upon receiving a "RESET"
      from the peer, it "advises the user and goes to the CLOSED state."
      See [RFC0793], Section 3.4.

   User Timeout Event:  This event is executed when the user timeout
      expires (see 'open') (section 3.9 of [RFC0793]).  All queues are
      flushed and the application is informed that the connection had to
      be aborted due to user timeout.

   Error_Report event:  This event informs the application of "soft
      errors" that can be safely ignored [RFC5461], including the
      arrival of an ICMP error message or excessive retransmissions
      (reaching a threshold below the threshold where the connection is
      aborted).  See section 4.2.4.1 of [RFC1122].

   Type-of-Service:  Section 4.2.4.2 of the requirements for Internet
      hosts [RFC1122] states that "the application layer MUST be able to
      specify the Type-of-Service (TOS) for segments that are sent on a
      connection".  The application should be able to change the TOS
      during the connection lifetime, and the TOS value should be passed
      to the IP layer unchanged.  Since then the TOS field has been
      redefined.  The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) model [RFC2475]
      [RFC3260] replaces this field in the IP Header, assigning the six
      most significant bits to carry the Differentiated Services Code
      Point (DSCP) field [RFC2474].

   Nagle:  The Nagle algorithm delays sending data for some time to
      increase the likelihood of sending a full-sized segment (section
      4.2.3.4 of [RFC1122]).  An application can disable the Nagle
      algorithm for an individual connection.

   User Timeout Option:  The User Timeout Option (UTO) [RFC5482] allows
      one end of a TCP connection to advertise its current user timeout
      value so that the other end of the TCP connection can adapt its
      own user timeout accordingly.  In addition to the configurable
      value of the User Timeout (see 'send'), there are three per-
      connection state variables that an application can adjust to
      control the operation of the User Timeout Option (UTO): 'adv_uto'
      is the value of the UTO advertised to the remote TCP peer

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      (default: system-wide default user timeout); 'enabled' (default
      false) is a boolean-type flag that controls whether the UTO option
      is enabled for a connection.  This applies to both sending and
      receiving. 'changeable' is a boolean-type flag (default true) that
      controls whether the user timeout may be changed based on a UTO
      option received from the other end of the connection. 'changeable'
      becomes false when an application explicitly sets the user timeout
      (see 'send').

   Set / Get Authentication Parameters:  The preferred outgoing MKT
      (current_key) and/or the preferred incoming MKT (rnext_key) of a
      connection can be configured.  Information about current_key and
      rnext_key carried in a recently received segment can be retrieved
      (section 7.1 of [RFC5925]).

3.1.1.  Excluded Primitives or Parameters

   The 'open' primitive can be handed optional Precedence or security/
   compartment information [RFC0793], but this was not included here
   because it is mostly irrelevant today [RFC7414].

   The 'Status' primitive was not included because the initial TCP
   specification describes this primitive as "implementation dependent"
   and states that it "could be excluded without adverse effect"
   [RFC0793].  Moreover, while a data block containing specific
   information is described, it is also stated that not all of this
   information may always be available.  While [RFC5925] states that
   'Status' "SHOULD be augmented to allow the MKTs of a current or
   pending connection to be read (for confirmation)", the same
   information is also available via 'Receive', which, following
   [RFC5925], "MUST be augmented" with that functionality.  The 'Send'
   primitive includes an optional 'push' flag which, if set, requires
   data to be promptly transmitted to the receiver without delay
   [RFC0793]; the 'Receive' primitive described in can (under some
   conditions) yield the status of the 'push' flag.  Because "push"
   functionality is optional to implement for both the 'send' and
   'receive' primitives [RFC1122], this functionality is not included
   here.  The requirements for Internet hosts [RFC1122] also introduce
   keep-alives to TCP, but these are optional to implement and hence not
   considered here.  The same document also describes that "some TCP
   implementations have included a FLUSH call", indicating that this
   call is also optional to implement.  It is therefore not considered
   here.

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3.2.  Primitives Provided by MPTCP

   Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is an extension to TCP that allows the use of
   multiple paths for a single data-stream.  It achieves this by
   creating different so-called TCP subflows for each of the interfaces
   and scheduling the traffic across these TCP subflows.  The service
   provided by MPTCP is described as follows in [RFC6182]: "Multipath
   TCP MUST follow the same service model as TCP [RFC0793]: in- order,
   reliable, and byte-oriented delivery.  Furthermore, a Multipath TCP
   connection SHOULD provide the application with no worse throughput or
   resilience than it would expect from running a single TCP connection
   over any one of its available paths."

   Further, there are some constraints on the API exposed by MPTCP,
   stated in [RFC6182]: "A multipath-capable equivalent of TCP MUST
   retain some level of backward compatibility with existing TCP APIs,
   so that existing applications can use the newer merely by upgrading
   the operating systems of the end hosts."  As such, the primitives
   provided by MPTCP are equivalent to the ones provided by TCP.
   Nevertheless, the MPTCP RFCs [RFC6824] and [RFC6897] clarify some
   parts of TCP's primitives with respect to MPTCP and add some
   extensions for better control on MPTCP's subflows.  Hereafter is a
   list of the clarifications and extensions the above cited RFCs
   provide to TCP's primitives.

   Open:  "An application should be able to request to turn on or turn
      off the usage of MPTCP" [RFC6897].  This functionality can be
      provided through a socket-option called 'tcp_multipath_enable'.
      Further, MPTCP must be disabled in case the application is binding
      to a specific address [RFC6897].

   Send/Receive:  The sending and receiving of data does not require any
      changes to the application when MPTCP is being used [RFC6824].
      The MPTCP-layer will "take one input data stream from an
      application, and split it into one or more subflows, with
      sufficient control information to allow it to be reassembled and
      delivered reliably and in order to the recipient application."
      The use of the Urgent Pointer is special in MPTCP [RFC6824], which
      states: "a TCP subflow MUST NOT use the Urgent Pointer to
      interrupt an existing mapping."

   Address and Subflow Management:  MPTCP uses different addresses and
      allows a host to announce these addresses as part of the protocol.
      The MPTCP API Considerations RFC [RFC6897] says "An application
      should be able to restrict MPTCP to binding to a given set of
      addresses" and thus allows applications to limit the set of
      addresses that are being used by MPTCP.  Further, "An application
      should be able to obtain information on the pairs of addresses

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      used by the MPTCP subflows".

3.3.  Primitives Provided by SCTP

   TCP has a number of limitations that SCTP removes (section 1.1 of
   [RFC4960]).  The following three removed limitations directly
   translate into transport features that are visible to an application
   using SCTP: 1) it allows for preservation of message delimiters; 2)
   it does not provide in-order or reliable delivery unless the
   application wants that; 3) multi-homing is supported.  In SCTP,
   connections are called "associations" and they can be between not
   only two (as in TCP) but multiple addresses at each endpoint.

   Section 10 of the SCTP base protocol specification [RFC4960]
   specifies the interaction with the application (which SCTP calls the
   "Upper Layer Protocol" (ULP)).  It is assumed that the Operating
   System provides a means for SCTP to asynchronously signal the
   application; the primitives representing such signals are called
   'events' in this section.  Here, we describe the relevant primitives.
   In addition to the abstract API described in the section 10 of the
   SCTP base protocol specification [RFC4960], an extension to the
   socket API is described in [RFC6458].  This covers the functionality
   of the base protocol [RFC4960] and some of its extensions [RFC3758],
   [RFC4895], [RFC5061].  For other protocol extensions [RFC6525],
   [RFC6951], [RFC7053], [RFC7496], [RFC7829],
   [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctp-ndata], the corresponding extensions of the
   socket API are specified in these protocol specifications.  The
   functionality exposed to the ULP through all these APIs is considered
   here.

   The abstract API contains a 'SetProtocolParameters' primitive that
   allows to adjust elements of a parameter list [RFC4960]; it is stated
   that SCTP implementations "may allow ULP to customize some of these
   protocol parameters", indicating that none of the elements of this
   parameter list are mandatory to make ULP-configurable.  Thus, we only
   consider the parameters in the abstract API that are also covered in
   one of the other RFCs listed above, which leads us to exclude the
   parameters RTO.Alpha, RTO.Beta and HB.Max.Burst.  For clarity, we
   also replace 'SetProtocolParameters' itself with primitives that
   adjust parameters or groups of parameters that fit together.

   Initialize:  Initialize creates a local SCTP instance that it binds
      to a set of local addresses (and, if provided, a local port
      number) [RFC4960].  Initialize needs to be called only once per
      set of local addresses.  A number of per-association
      initialization parameters can be used when an association is
      created, but before it is connected (via the primitive 'Associate'

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      below): the maximum number of inbound streams the application is
      prepared to support, the maximum number of attempts to be made
      when sending the INIT (the first message of association
      establishment), and the maximum retransmission timeout (RTO) value
      to use when attempting an INIT [RFC6458].  At this point, before
      connecting, an application can also enable UDP encapsulation by
      configuring the remote UDP encapsulation port number [RFC6951].

   Associate:  This creates an association (the SCTP equivalent of a
      connection) that connects the local SCTP instance and a remote
      SCTP instance.  To identify the remote endpoint, it can be given
      one or multiple (using "connectx") sockets (section 9.9 of
      [RFC6458]).  Most primitives are associated with a specific
      association, which is assumed to first have been created.
      Associate can return a list of destination transport addresses so
      that multiple paths can later be used.  One of the returned
      sockets will be selected by the local endpoint as default primary
      path for sending SCTP packets to this peer, but this choice can be
      changed by the application using the list of destination
      addresses.  Associate is also given the number of outgoing streams
      to request and optionally returns the number of negotiated
      outgoing streams.  An optional parameter of 32 bits, the
      adaptation layer indication, can be provided [RFC5061].  If
      authenticated chunks are used, the chunk types required to be sent
      authenticated by the peer can be provided [RFC4895].  A
      'SCTP_Cant_Str_Assoc' notification is used to inform the
      application of a failure to create an association [RFC6458].  An
      application could use sendto() or sendmsg() to implicitly setup an
      association, thereby handing over a message that SCTP might send
      during the association setup phase [RFC6458].  Note that this
      mechanism is different from TCP's TFO mechanism: the message would
      arrive only once, after at least one RTT, as it is sent together
      with the third message exchanged during association setup, the
      COOKIE-ECHO chunk).

   Send:  This sends a message of a certain length in bytes over an
      association.  A number can be provided to later refer to the
      correct message when reporting an error, and a stream id is
      provided to specify the stream to be used inside an association
      (we consider this as a mandatory parameter here for simplicity: if
      not provided, the stream id defaults to 0).  A condition to
      abandon the message can be specified (for example limiting the
      number of retransmissions or the lifetime of the user message).
      This allows to control the partial reliability extension
      [RFC3758], [RFC7496].  An optional maximum life time can specify
      the time after which the message should be discarded rather than
      sent.  A choice (advisory, i.e. not guaranteed) of the preferred
      path can be made by providing a socket, and the message can be

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      delivered out-of-order if the unordered flag is set.  An advisory
      flag indicates that the peer should not delay the acknowledgement
      of the user message provided [RFC7053].  Another advisory flag
      indicates whether the application prefers to avoid bundling user
      data with other outbound DATA chunks (i.e., in the same packet).
      A payload protocol-id can be provided to pass a value that
      indicates the type of payload protocol data to the peer.  If
      authenticated chunks are used, the key identifier for
      authenticating DATA chunks can be provided [RFC4895].

   Receive:  Messages are received from an association, and optionally a
      stream within the association, with their size returned.  The
      application is notified of the availability of data via a 'Data
      Arrive' notification.  If the sender has included a payload
      protocol-id, this value is also returned.  If the received message
      is only a partial delivery of a whole message, a partial flag will
      indicate so, in which case the stream id and a stream sequence
      number are provided to the application.

   Shutdown:  This primitive gracefully closes an association, reliably
      delivering any data that has already been handed over to SCTP.  A
      parameter lets the application control whether further receive or
      send operations or both are disabled when the call is issued.  A
      return code informs about success or failure of this procedure.

   Abort:  This ungracefully closes an association, by discarding any
      locally queued data and informing the peer that the association
      was aborted.  Optionally, an abort reason to be passed to the peer
      may be provided by the application.  A return code informs about
      success or failure of this procedure.

   Change Heartbeat / Request Heartbeat:  This allows the application to
      enable/disable heartbeats and optionally specify a heartbeat
      frequency as well as requesting a single heartbeat to be carried
      out upon a function call, with a notification about success or
      failure of transmitting the HEARTBEAT chunk to the destination.

   Configure Max. Retransmissions of an Association:  The parameter
      Association.Max.Retrans [RFC4960] (called "sasoc_maxrxt" in the
      SCTP socket API extensions [RFC6458]), allows to configure the
      number of unsuccessful retransmissions after which an entire
      association is considered as failed; this should invoke a
      'Communication Lost' notification.

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   Set Primary:  This allows to set a new primary default path for an
      association by providing a socket.  Optionally, a default source
      address to be used in IP datagrams can be provided.

   Change Local Address / Set Peer Primary:  This allows an endpoint to
      add/remove local addresses to/from an association.  In addition,
      the peer can be given a hint which address to use as the primary
      address [RFC5061].

   Configure Path Switchover:  The abstract API contains a primitive
      called 'Set Failure Threshold' [RFC4960].  This configures the
      parameter "Path.Max.Retrans", which determines after how many
      retransmissions a particular transport address is considered as
      unreachable.  If there are more transport addresses available in
      an association, reaching this limit will invoke a path switchover.
      An extension called "SCTP-PF" adds a concept of "Potentially
      Failed" (PF) paths to this method [RFC7829].  When a path is in PF
      state, SCTP will not entirely give up sending on that path, but it
      will preferably send data on other active paths if such paths are
      available.  Entering the PF state is done upon exceeding a
      configured maximum number of retransmissions.  Thus, for all paths
      where this mechanism is used, there are two configurable error
      thresholds: one to decide that a path is in PF state, and one to
      decide that the transport address is unreachable.

   Set / Get Authentication Parameters:  This allows an endpoint to add/
      remove key material to/from an association.  In addition, the
      chunk types being authenticated can be queried [RFC4895].

   Add / Reset Streams, Reset Association:  This allows an endpoint to
      add streams to an existing association or or to reset them
      individually.  Additionally, the association can be reset
      [RFC6525].

   Status:  The 'Status' primitive returns a data block with information
      about a specified association, containing: association connection
      state; destination transport address list; destination transport
      address reachability states; current local and peer receiver
      window sizes; current local congestion window sizes; number of
      unacknowledged DATA chunks; number of DATA chunks pending receipt;
      primary path; most recent SRTT on primary path; RTO on primary
      path; SRTT and RTO on other destination addresses [RFC4960] and
      MTU per path [RFC6458].

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   Enable / Disable Interleaving:  This allows to enable or disable the
      negotiation of user message interleaving support for future
      associations.  For existing associations it is possible to query
      whether user message interleaving support was negotiated or not on
      a particular association [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctp-ndata].

   Set Stream Scheduler:  This allows to select a stream scheduler per
      association, with a choice of: First Come First Serve, Round
      Robin, Round Robin per Packet, Priority Based, Fair Bandwidth,
      Weighted Fair Queuing [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctp-ndata].

   Configure Stream Scheduler:  This allows to change a parameter per
      stream for the schedulers: a priority value for the Priority Based
      scheduler and a weight for the Weighted Fair Queuing scheduler.

   Enable / Disable NoDelay:  This turns on/off any Nagle-like algorithm
      for an association [RFC6458].

   Configure Send Buffer Size:  This controls the amount of data SCTP
      may have waiting in internal buffers to be sent or retransmitted
      [RFC6458].

   Configure Receive Buffer Size:  This sets the receive buffer size in
      octets, thereby controlling the receiver window for an association
      [RFC6458].

   Configure Message Fragmentation:  If a user message causes an SCTP
      packet to exceed the maximum fragmentation size (which can be
      provided by the application, and is otherwise the PMTU size), then
      the message will be fragmented by SCTP.  Disabling message
      fragmentation will produce an error instead of fragmenting the
      message [RFC6458].

   Configure Path MTU Discovery:  Path MTU Discovery can be enabled or
      disabled per peer address of an association (section 8.1.12 of
      [RFC6458]).  When it is enabled, the current Path MTU value can be
      obtained.  When it is disabled, the Path MTU to be used can be
      controlled by the application.

   Configure Delayed SACK Timer:  The time before sending a SACK can be
      adjusted; delaying SACKs can be disabled; the number of packets
      that must be received before a SACK is sent without waiting for
      the delay timer to expire can be configured [RFC6458].

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   Set Cookie Life Value:  The Cookie life value can be adjusted
      (section 8.1.2 of [RFC6458]).  "Valid.Cookie.Life" is also one of
      the parameters that is potentially adjustable with
      'SetProtocolParameters' [RFC4960].

   Set Maximum Burst:  The maximum burst of packets that can be emitted
      by a particular association (default 4, and values above 4 are
      optional to implement) can be adjusted (section 8.1.2 of
      [RFC6458]).  "Max.Burst" is also one of the parameters that is
      potentially adjustable with 'SetProtocolParameters' [RFC4960].

   Configure RTO Calculation:  The abstract API contains the following
      adjustable parameters: RTO.Initial; RTO.Min; RTO.Max; RTO.Alpha;
      RTO.Beta.  Only the initial, minimum and maximum RTO are also
      described as configurable in the SCTP sockets API extensions
      [RFC6458].

   Set DSCP Value:  The DSCP value can be set per peer address of an
      association (section 8.1.12 of [RFC6458]).

   Set IPv6 Flow Label:  The flow label field can be set per peer
      address of an association (section 8.1.12 of [RFC6458]).

   Set Partial Delivery Point:  This allows to specify the size of a
      message where partial delivery will be invoked.  Setting this to a
      lower value will cause partial deliveries to happen more often
      [RFC6458].

   Communication Up Notification:  When a lost communication to an
      endpoint is restored or when SCTP becomes ready to send or receive
      user messages, this notification informs the application process
      about the affected association, the type of event that has
      occurred, the complete set of sockets of the peer, the maximum
      number of allowed streams and the inbound stream count (the number
      of streams the peer endpoint has requested).  If interleaving is
      supported by both endpoints, this information is also included in
      this notification.

   Restart Notification:  When SCTP has detected that the peer has
      restarted, this notification is passed to the upper layer
      [RFC6458].

   Data Arrive Notification:  When a message is ready to be retrieved
      via the 'Receive' primitive, the application is informed by this
      notification.

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   Send Failure Notification / Receive Unsent Message / Receive
   Unacknowledged Message:  When a message cannot be delivered via an
      association, the sender can be informed about it and learn whether
      the message has just not been acknowledged or (e.g. in case of
      lifetime expiry) if it has not even been sent.  This can also
      inform the sender that a part of the message has been successfully
      delivered.

   Network Status Change Notification:  This informs the application
      about a socket becoming active/inactive [RFC4960] or "Potentially
      Failed" [RFC7829].

   Communication Lost Notification:  When SCTP loses communication to an
      endpoint (e.g. via Heartbeats or excessive retransmission) or
      detects an abort, this notification informs the application
      process of the affected association and the type of event (failure
      OR termination in response to a shutdown or abort request).

   Shutdown Complete Notification:  When SCTP completes the shutdown
      procedures, this notification is passed to the upper layer,
      informing it about the affected assocation.

   Authentication Notification:  When SCTP wants to notify the upper
      layer regarding the key management related to authenticated chunks
      [RFC4895], this notification is passed to the upper layer.

   Adaptation Layer Indication Notification:  When SCTP completes the
      association setup and the peer provided an adaptation layer
      indication, this is passed to the upper layer [RFC5061],
      [RFC6458].

   Stream Reset Notification:  When SCTP completes the procedure for
      resetting streams [RFC6525], this notification is passed to the
      upper layer, informing it about the result.

   Assocation Reset Notification:  When SCTP completes the association
      reset procedure [RFC6525], this notification is passed to the
      upper layer, informing it about the result.

   Stream Change Notification:  When SCTP completes the procedure used
      to increase the number of streams [RFC6525], this notification is
      passed to the upper layer, informing it about the result.

   Sender Dry Notification:  When SCTP has no more user data to send or
      retransmit on a particular association, this notification is
      passed to the upper layer [RFC6458].

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   Partial Delivery Aborted Notification:  When a receiver has begun to
      receive parts of a user message but the delivery of this message
      is then aborted, this notification is passed to the upper layer
      (section 6.1.7 of [RFC6458]).

3.3.1.  Excluded Primitives or Parameters

   The 'Receive' primitive can return certain additional information,
   but this is optional to implement and therefore not considered.  With
   a 'Communication Lost' notification, some more information may
   optionally be passed to the application (e.g., identification to
   retrieve unsent and unacknowledged data).  SCTP "can invoke" a
   'Communication Error' notification and "may send" a 'Restart'
   notification, making these two notifications optional to implement.
   The list provided under 'Status' includes "etc", indicating that more
   information could be provided.  The primitive 'Get SRTT Report'
   returns information that is included in the information that 'Status'
   provides and is therefore not discussed.  The 'Destroy SCTP Instance'
   API function was excluded: it erases the SCTP instance that was
   created by 'Initialize', but is not a Primitive as defined in this
   document because it does not relate to a transport feature.  The
   'Shutdown' event informs an application that the peer has sent a
   SHUTDOWN, and hence no further data should be sent on this socket
   (section 6.1 of [RFC6458]).  However, if an application would try to
   send data on the socket, it would get an error message anyway; thus,
   this event is classified as "just affecting the application
   programming style, not how the underlying protocol operates" and not
   included here.

3.4.  Primitives Provided by UDP and UDP-Lite

   The set of pass 1 primitives for UDP and UDP-Lite is documented in
   [FJ16].

3.5.  The service of LEDBAT

   The service of the Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)
   congestion control mechanism is described as follows: "LEDBAT is
   designed for use by background bulk-transfer applications to be no
   more aggressive than standard TCP congestion control (as specified in
   RFC 5681) and to yield in the presence of competing flows, thus
   limiting interference with the network performance of competing
   flows" [RFC6817].

   LEDBAT does not have any primitives, as LEDBAT is not a transport
   protocol.  According to its specification [RFC6817], "LEDBAT can be
   used as part of a transport protocol or as part of an application, as

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   long as the data transmission mechanisms are capable of carrying
   timestamps and acknowledging data frequently.  LEDBAT can be used
   with TCP, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), and Datagram
   Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), with appropriate extensions where
   necessary; and it can be used with proprietary application protocols,
   such as those built on top of UDP for peer-to- peer (P2P)
   applications."  At the time of writing, the appropriate extensions
   for TCP, SCTP or DCCP do not exist.

   A numer of configurable parameters exist in the LEDBAT specification:
   TARGET, which is the queuing delay target at which LEDBAT tries to
   operate, must be set to 100ms or less. 'allowed_increase' (should be
   1, must be greater than 0) limits the speed at which LEDBAT increases
   its rate. 'gain', which, according to [RFC6817], "MUST be set to 1 or
   less" to avoid a faster ramp-up than TCP Reno, determines how quickly
   the sender responds to changes in queueing delay.  Implementations
   may divide 'gain' into two parameters, one for increase and a
   possibly larger one for decrease.  We call these parameters
   'Gain_Inc' and 'Gain_Dec' here.  'Base_History' is the size of the
   list of measured base delays, and, according to [RFC6817], "SHOULD be
   10".  This list can be filtered using a 'Filter' function which is
   not prescribed [RFC6817], yielding a list of size 'Current_Filter'.
   The initial and minimum congestion windows, 'Init_CWND' and
   'Min_CWND', should both be 2.

   Regarding which of these parameters should be under control of an
   application, the possible range goes from exposing nothing on the one
   hand, to considering everything that is not prescribed with a "MUST"
   in the specification as a parameter on the other hand.  Function
   implementations are not provided as a parameter to any of the
   transport protocols discussed here, and hence we do not regard the
   'Filter' function as a parameter.  However, to avoid unnecessarily
   limiting future implementations, we consider all other parameters
   above as tunable parameters that should be exposed.

4.  Pass 2

   This pass categorizes the primitives from pass 1 based on whether
   they relate to a connection or to data transmission.  Primitives are
   presented following the nomenclature
   "CATEGORY.[SUBCATEGORY].PRIMITIVENAME.PROTOCOL".  The CATEGORY can be
   CONNECTION or DATA.  Within the CONNECTION category, ESTABLISHMENT,
   AVAILABILITY, MAINTENANCE and TERMINATION subcategories can be
   considered.  The DATA category does not have any SUBCATEGORY.  The
   PROTOCOL name "UDP(-Lite)" is used when primitives are equivalent for
   UDP and UDP-Lite; the PROTOCOL name "TCP" refers to both TCP and
   MPTCP.  We present "connection" as a general protocol-independent

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   concept and use it to refer to, e.g., TCP connections (identifiable
   by a unique pair of IP addresses and TCP port numbers), SCTP
   associations (identifiable by multiple IP address and port number
   pairs), as well UDP and UDP-Lite connections (identifiable by a
   unique socket pair).

   Some minor details are omitted for the sake of generalization --
   e.g., SCTP's 'Close' [RFC4960] returns success or failure, and lets
   the application control whether further receive or send operations or
   both are disabled [RFC6458].  This is not described in the same way
   for TCP [RFC0793], but these details play no significant role for the
   primitives provided by either TCP or SCTP (for the sake of being
   generic, it could be assumed that both receive and send operations
   are disabled in both cases).

   The TCP 'Send' and 'Receive' primitives include usage of an 'urgent'
   parameter.  This parameter controls a mechanism that is required to
   implement the "synch signal" used by telnet [RFC0854], but [RFC6093]
   states that "new applications SHOULD NOT employ the TCP urgent
   mechanism".  Because pass 2 is meant as a basis for the creation of
   future systems, the "urgent" mechanism is excluded.  This also
   concerns the notification 'Urgent Pointer Advance' in the
   'Error_Report' (section 4.2.4.1 of [RFC1122]).

   Since LEDBAT is a congestion control mechanism and not a protocol, it
   is not currently defined when to enable / disable or configure the
   mechanism.  For instance, it could be a one-time choice upon
   connection establishment or when listening for incoming connections,
   in which case it should be categorized under CONNECTION.ESTABLISHMENT
   or CONNECTION.AVAILABILITY, respectively.  To avoid unnecessarily
   limiting future implementations, it was decided to place it under
   CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE, with all parameters that are described in the
   specification [RFC6817] made configurable.

4.1.  CONNECTION Related Primitives

   ESTABLISHMENT:

   Active creation of a connection from one transport endpoint to one or
   more transport endpoints.
   Interfaces to UDP and UDP-Lite allow both connection-oriented and
   connection-less usage of the API [RFC8085].

   o  CONNECT.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Open' (active) or 'Open' (passive) with
      socket, followed by 'Send'

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      Parameters: 1 local IP address (optional); 1 destination transport
      address (for active open; else the socket and the local IP address
      of the succeeding incoming connection request will be maintained);
      timeout (optional); options (optional); MKT configuration
      (optional); user message (optional)

      Comments: If the local IP address is not provided, a default
      choice will automatically be made.  The timeout can also be a
      retransmission count.  The options are IP options to be used on
      all segments of the connection.  At least the Source Route option
      is mandatory for TCP to provide.  'MKT configuration' refers to
      the ability to configure Master Key Tuples (MKTs) for
      authentication.  The user message may be transmitted to the peer
      application immediately upon reception of the TCP SYN packet.  To
      benefit from the lower latency this provides as part of the
      experimental TFO mechanism, its length must be at most the TCP's
      maximum segment size (minus TCP options used in the SYN).  The
      message may also be delivered more than once to the application on
      the remote host.

   o  CONNECT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Initialize', followed by 'Enable /
      Disable Interleaving' (optional), followed by 'Associate'

      Parameters: list of local SCTP port number / IP address pairs
      ('Initialize'); one or several sockets (identifying the peer);
      outbound stream count; maximum allowed inbound stream count;
      adaptation layer indication (optional); chunk types required to be
      authenticated (optional); request interleaving on/off; maximum
      number of INIT attemps (optional); maximum init.  RTO for INIT
      (optional); user message (optional); remote UDP port number
      (optional)

      Returns: socket list or failure

      Comments: 'Initialize' needs to be called only once per list of
      local SCTP port number / IP address pairs.  One socket will
      automatically be chosen; it can later be changed in MAINTENANCE.
      The user message may be transmitted to the peer application
      immediately upon reception of the packet containing the COOKIE-
      ECHO chunk.  To benefit from the lower latency this provides, its
      length must be limited such that it fits into the packet
      containing the COOKIE-ECHO chunk.  If a remote UDP port number is
      provided, SCTP packets will be encapsulated in UDP.

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   o  CONNECT.MPTCP:

      This is similar to CONNECT.TCP except for one additional boolean
      parameter that allows to enable or disable MPTCP for a particular
      connection or socket (default: enabled).

   o  CONNECT.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Connect' followed by 'Send'.

      Parameters: 1 local IP address (default (ANY), or specified); 1
      destination transport address; 1 local port (default (OS chooses),
      or specified); 1 destination port (default (OS chooses), or
      specified).

      Comments: Associates a transport address creating a UDP(-Lite)
      socket connection.  This can be called again with a new transport
      address to create a new connection.  The CONNECT function allows
      an application to receive errors from messages sent to a transport
      address.

   AVAILABILITY:

   Preparing to receive incoming connection requests.

   o  LISTEN.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Open' (passive)

      Parameters: 1 local IP address (optional); 1 socket (optional);
      timeout (optional); buffer to receive a user message (optional);
      MKT configuration (optional)

      Comments: if the socket and/or local IP address is provided, this
      waits for incoming connections from only and/or to only the
      provided address.  Else this waits for incoming connections
      without this / these constraint(s).  ESTABLISHMENT can later be
      performed with 'Send'.  If a buffer is provided to receive a user
      message, a user message can be received from a TFO-enabled sender
      before TCP's connection handshake is completed.  This message may
      arrive multiple times.  'MKT configuration' refers to the ability
      to configure Master Key Tuples (MKTs) for authentication.

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   o  LISTEN.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Initialize', followed by 'Communication
      Up' or 'Restart' notification and possibly 'Adaptation Layer'
      notification

      Parameters: list of local SCTP port number / IP address pairs
      (initialize)

      Returns: socket list; outbound stream count; inbound stream count;
      adaptation layer indication; chunks required to be authenticated;
      interleaving supported on both sides yes/no

      Comments: 'Initialize' needs to be called only once per list of
      local SCTP port number / IP address pairs.  'Communication Up' can
      also follow a 'Communication Lost' notification, indicating that
      the lost communication is restored.  If the peer has provided an
      adaptation layer indication, an 'Adaptation Layer' notification is
      issued.

   o  LISTEN.MPTCP:

      This is similar to LISTEN.TCP except for one additional boolean
      parameter that allows to enable or disable MPTCP for a particular
      connection or socket (default: enabled).

   o  LISTEN.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Receive'.

      Parameters: 1 local IP address (default (ANY), or specified); 1
      destination transport address; local port (default (OS chooses),
      or specified); destination port (default (OS chooses), or
      specified).

      Comments: The 'Receive' function registers the application to
      listen for incoming UDP(-Lite) datagrams at an endpoint.

   MAINTENANCE:

   Adjustments made to an open connection, or notifications about it.
   These are out-of-band messages to the protocol that can be issued at
   any time, at least after a connection has been established and before
   it has been terminated (with one exception: CHANGE_TIMEOUT.TCP can

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   only be issued for an open connection when DATA.SEND.TCP is called).
   In some cases, these primitives can also be immediately issued during
   ESTABLISHMENT or AVAILABILITY, without waiting for the connection to
   be opened (e.g.  CHANGE_TIMEOUT.TCP can be done using TCP's 'Open'
   primitive).  For UDP and UDP-Lite, these functions may establish a
   setting per connection, but may also be changed per datagram message.

   o  CHANGE_TIMEOUT.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Open' or 'Send' combined with
      unspecified control of per-connection state variables

      Parameters: timeout value (optional); adv_uto (optional); boolean
      uto_enabled (optional, default false); boolean changeable
      (optional, default true)

      Comments: when sending data, an application can adjust the
      connection's timeout value (time after which the connection will
      be aborted if data could not be delivered).  If 'uto_enabled' is
      true, the 'timeout value' (or, if provided, the value 'adv_uto')
      will be advertised for the TCP on the other side of the connection
      to adapt its own user timeout accordingly. 'uto_enabled' controls
      whether the UTO option is enabled for a connection.  This applies
      to both sending and receiving. 'changeable' controls whether the
      user timeout may be changed based on a UTO option received from
      the other end of the connection; it becomes false when 'timeout
      value' is used.

   o  CHANGE_TIMEOUT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Change HeartBeat' combined with
      'Configure Max. Retransmissions of an Association'

      Parameters: 'Change Heartbeat': heartbeat frequency; 'Configure
      Max. Retransmissions of an Association': association.max.retrans

      Comments: 'Change Heartbeat' can enable / disable heartbeats in
      SCTP as well as change their frequency.  The parameter
      'association.max.retrans' defines after how many unsuccessful
      transmissions of any packets (including heartbeats) the
      association will be terminated; thus these two primitives /
      parameters together can yield a similar behavior for SCTP
      associations as CHANGE_TIMEOUT.TCP does for TCP connections.

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   o  DISABLE_NAGLE.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: not specified

      Parameters: one boolean value

      Comments: the Nagle algorithm delays data transmission to increase
      the chance to send a full-sized segment.  An application must be
      able to disable this algorithm for a connection.

   o  DISABLE_NAGLE.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Enable / Disable NoDelay'

      Parameters: one boolean value

      Comments: Nagle-like algorithms delay data transmission to
      increase the chance to send a full-sized packet.

   o  REQUEST_HEARTBEAT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Request HeartBeat'

      Parameters: socket

      Returns: success or failure

      Comments: requests an immediate heartbeat on a path, returning
      success or failure.

   o  ADD_PATH.MPTCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: not specified

      Parameters: local IP address and optionally the local port number

      Comments: the application specifies the local IP address and port
      number that must be used for a new subflow.

   o  ADD_PATH.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Change Local Address / Set Peer
      Primary'

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      Parameters: local IP address

   o  REM_PATH.MPTCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: not specified

      Parameters: local IP address; local port number; remote IP
      address; remote port number

      Comments: the application removes the subflow specified by the IP/
      port-pair.  The MPTCP implementation must trigger a removal of the
      subflow that belongs to this IP/port-pair.

   o  REM_PATH.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Change Local Address / Set Peer
      Primary'

      Parameters: local IP address

   o  SET_PRIMARY.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set Primary'

      Parameters: socket

      Returns: result of attempting this operation

      Comments: update the current primary address to be used, based on
      the set of available sockets of the association.

   o  SET_PEER_PRIMARY.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Change Local Address / Set Peer
      Primary'

      Parameters: local IP address

      Comments: this is only advisory for the peer.

   o  CONFIG_SWITCHOVER.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Configure Path Switchover'

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      Parameters: primary max retrans (no. of retransmissions after
      which a path is considered inactive); PF max retrans (no. of
      retransmissions after which a path is considered to be
      "Potentially Failed", and others will be preferably used)
      (optional)

   o  STATUS.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Status', 'Enable / Disable
      Interleaving' and 'Network Status Change' notification.

      Returns: data block with information about a specified
      association, containing: association connection state; destination
      transport address list; destination transport address reachability
      states; current local and peer receiver window sizes; current
      local congestion window sizes; number of unacknowledged DATA
      chunks; number of DATA chunks pending receipt; primary path; most
      recent SRTT on primary path; RTO on primary path; SRTT and RTO on
      other destination addresses; MTU per path; interleaving supported
      yes/no.

      Comments: The 'Network Status Change' notification informs the
      application about a socket becoming active/inactive; this only
      affects the programming style, as the same information is also
      available via 'Status'.

   o  STATUS.MPTCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: not specified

      Returns: list of pairs of tuples of IP address and TCP port number
      of each subflow.  The first of the pair is the local IP and port
      number, while the second is the remote IP and port number.

   o  SET_DSCP.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: not specified

      Parameters: DSCP value

      Comments: this allows an application to change the DSCP value for
      outgoing segments.

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   o  SET_DSCP.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set DSCP value'

      Parameters: DSCP value

      Comments: this allows an application to change the DSCP value for
      outgoing packets on a path.

   o  SET_DSCP.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set_DSCP'

      Parameter: DSCP value

      Comments: This allows an application to change the DSCP value for
      outgoing UDP(-Lite) datagrams.  [RFC7657] and [RFC8085] provide
      current guidance on using this value with UDP.

   o  ERROR.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Error_Report'

      Returns: reason (encoding not specified); subreason (encoding not
      specified)

      Comments: soft errors that can be ignored without harm by many
      applications; an application should be able to disable these
      notifications.  The reported conditions include at least: ICMP
      error message arrived; Excessive Retransmissions.

   o  ERROR.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Error_Report'

      Returns: Error report

      Comments: This returns soft errors that may be ignored without
      harm by many applications; An application must connect to be able
      receive these notifications.

   o  SET_AUTH.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: not specified

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      Parameters: current_key; rnext_key

      Comments: current_key and rnext_key are the preferred outgoing MKT
      and the preferred incoming MKT, respectively, for a segment that
      is sent on the connection.

   o  SET_AUTH.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set / Get Authentication Parameters'

      Parameters: key_id; key; hmac_id

   o  GET_AUTH.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: not specified

      Parameters: current_key; rnext_key

      Comments: current_key and rnext_key are the preferred outgoing MKT
      and the preferred incoming MKT, respectively, that were carried on
      a recently received segment.

   o  GET_AUTH.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set / Get Authentication Parameters'

      Parameters: key_id; chunk_list

   o  RESET_STREAM.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Add / Reset Streams, Reset Association'

      Parameters: sid; direction

   o  RESET_STREAM-EVENT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Stream Reset' notification

      Parameters: information about the result of RESET_STREAM.SCTP.

      Comments: This is issued when the procedure for resetting streams
      has completed.

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   o  RESET_ASSOC.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Add / Reset Streams, Reset Association'

      Parameters: information related to the extension, defined in
      [RFC3260].

   o  RESET_ASSOC-EVENT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Association Reset' notification

      Parameters: information about the result of RESET_ASSOC.SCTP.

      Comments: this is issued when the procedure for resetting an
      association has completed.

   o  ADD_STREAM.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Add / Reset Streams, Reset Association'

      Parameters: number if outgoing and incoming streams to be added

   o  ADD_STREAM-EVENT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Stream Change' notification

      Parameters: information about the result of ADD_STREAM.SCTP.

      Comments: this is issued when the procedure for adding a stream
      has completed.

   o  SET_STREAM_SCHEDULER.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set Stream Scheduler'

      Parameters: scheduler identifier

      Comments: choice of First Come First Serve, Round Robin, Round
      Robin per Packet, Priority Based, Fair Bandwidth, Weighted Fair
      Queuing.

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   o  CONFIGURE_STREAM_SCHEDULER.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Configure Stream Scheduler'

      Parameters: priority

      Comments: the priority value only applies when Priority Based or
      Weighted Fair Queuing scheduling is chosen with
      SET_STREAM_SCHEDULER.SCTP.  The meaning of the parameter differs
      between these two schedulers but in both cases it realizes some
      form of prioritization regarding how bandwidth is divided among
      streams.

   o  SET_FLOWLABEL.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set IPv6 Flow Label'

      Parameters: flow label

      Comments: this allows an application to change the IPv6 header's
      flow label field for outgoing packets on a path.

   o  AUTHENTICATION_NOTIFICATION-EVENT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Authentication' notification

      Returns: information regarding key management.

   o  CONFIG_SEND_BUFFER.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Configure Send Buffer Size'

      Parameters: size value in octets

   o  CONFIG_RECEIVE_BUFFER.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Configure Receive Buffer Size'

      Parameters: size value in octets

      Comments: this controls the receiver window.

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   o  CONFIG_FRAGMENTATION.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Configure Message Fragmentation'

      Parameters: one boolean value (enable/disable); maximum
      fragmentation size (optional; default: PMTU)

      Comments: if fragmentation is enabled, messages exceeding the
      maximum fragmentation size will be fragmented.  If fragmentation
      is disabled, trying to send a message that exceeds the maximum
      fragmentation size will produce an error.

   o  CONFIG_PMTUD.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Configure Path MTU Discovery'

      Parameters: one boolean value (PMTUD on/off); PMTU value
      (optional)

      Returns: PMTU value

      Comments: this returns a meaningful PMTU value when PMTUD is
      enabled (the boolean is true), and the PMTU value can be set if
      PMTUD is disabled (the boolean is false)

   o  CONFIG_DELAYED_SACK.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Configure Delayed SACK Timer'

      Parameters: one boolean value (delayed SACK on/off); timer value
      (optional); number of packets to wait for (default 2)

      Comments: if delayed SACK is enabled, SCTP will send a SACK upon
      either receiving the provided number of packets or when the timer
      expires, whatever occurs first.

   o  CONFIG_RTO.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Configure RTO Calculation'

      Parameters: init (optional); min (optional); max (optional)

      Comments: this adjusts the initial, minimum and maximum RTO
      values.

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   o  SET_COOKIE_LIFE.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set Cookie Life Value'

      Parameters: cookie life value

   o  SET_MAX_BURST.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set Maximum Burst'

      Parameters: max burst value

      Comments: not all implementations allow values above the default
      of 4.

   o  SET_PARTIAL_DELIVERY_POINT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set Partial Delivery Point'

      Parameters: partial delivery point (integer)

      Comments: this parameter must be smaller or equal to the socket
      receive buffer size.

   o  SET_CHECKSUM_ENABLED.UDP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Checksum_Enabled'.

      Parameters: 0 when zero checksum is used at sender, 1 for checksum
      at sender (default)

   o  SET_CHECKSUM_REQUIRED.UDP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Require_Checksum'.

      Parameter: 0 to allow zero checksum, 1 when a non-zero checksum is
      required (default) at receiver

   o  SET_CHECKSUM_COVERAGE.UDP-Lite:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set_Checksum_Coverage'

      Parameters: coverage length at sender (default maximum coverage)

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   o  SET_MIN_CHECKSUM_COVERAGE.UDP-Lite:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set_Min_Coverage'.

      Parameter: coverage length at receiver (default minimum coverage)

   o  SET_DF.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive event: 'Set_DF'.

      Parameter: 0 when DF is not set (default) in the IPv4 header, 1
      when DF is set

   o  GET_MMS_S.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive event: 'Get_MM_S'.

      Comments: this retrieves the maximum transport-message size that
      may be sent using a non-fragmented IP packet from the configured
      interface.

   o  GET_MMS_R.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive event: 'Get_MMS_R'.

      Comments: this retrieves the maximum transport-message size that
      may be received from the configured interface.

   o  SET_TTL.UDP(-Lite) (IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set_TTL' and 'Set_IPV6_Unicast_Hops'

      Parameters: IPv4 TTL value or IPv6 Hop Count value

      Comments: this allows an application to change the IPv4 TTL of
      IPv6 Hop count value for outgoing UDP(-Lite) datagrams.

   o  GET_TTL.UDP(-Lite) (IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Get_TTL' and 'Get_IPV6_Unicast_Hops'

      Returns: IPv4 TTL value or IPv6 Hop Count value

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      Comments: this allows an application to read the the IPv4 TTL of
      IPv6 Hop count value from a received UDP(-Lite) datagram.

   o  SET_ECN.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set_ECN'

      Parameters: ECN value

      Comments: this allows a UDP(-Lite) application to set the ECN
      codepoint field for outgoing UDP(-Lite) datagrams.  Defaults to
      sending '00'.

   o  GET_ECN.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Get_ECN'

      Parameters: ECN value

      Comments: this allows a UDP(-Lite) application to read the ECN
      codepoint field from a received UDP(-Lite) datagram.

   o  SET_IP_OPTIONS.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Set_IP_Options'

      Parameters: options

      Comments: this allows a UDP(-Lite) application to set IP Options
      for outgoing UDP(-Lite) datagrams.  These options can at least be
      the Source Route, Record Route, and Time Stamp option.

   o  GET_IP_OPTIONS.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Get_IP_Options'

      Returns: options

      Comments: this allows a UDP(-Lite) application to receive any IP
      options that are contained in a received UDP(-Lite) datagram.

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   o  CONFIGURE.LEDBAT:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: N/A

      Parameters: enable (boolean); target; allowed_increase; gain_inc;
      gain_dec; base_history; current_filter; init_cwnd; min_cwnd
      Comments: 'enable' is a newly invented parameter that enables or
      disables the whole LEDBAT service.

   TERMINATION:

   Gracefully or forcefully closing a connection, or being informed
   about this event happening.

   o  CLOSE.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Close'

      Comments: this terminates the sending side of a connection after
      reliably delivering all remaining data.

   o  CLOSE.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Shutdown'

      Comments: this terminates a connection after reliably delivering
      all remaining data.

   o  ABORT.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Abort'

      Comments: this terminates a connection without delivering
      remaining data and sends an error message to the other side.

   o  ABORT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Abort'

      Parameters: abort reason to be given to the peer (optional)

      Comments: this terminates a connection without delivering
      remaining data and sends an error message to the other side.

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   o  ABORT.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive event: 'Close'

      Comments: this terminates a connection without delivering
      remaining data.  No further UDP(-Lite) datagrams are sent/received
      for this transport service instance.

   o  TIMEOUT.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'User Timeout' event

      Comments: the application is informed that the connection is
      aborted.  This event is executed on expiration of the timeout set
      in CONNECTION.ESTABLISHMENT.CONNECT.TCP (possibly adjusted in
      CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE.CHANGE_TIMEOUT.TCP).

   o  TIMEOUT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Communication Lost' event

      Comments: the application is informed that the connection is
      aborted. this event is executed on expiration of the timeout that
      should be enabled by default (see the beginning of section 8.3 in
      [RFC4960]) and was possibly adjusted in
      CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE.CHANGE_TIMEOOUT.SCTP.

   o  ABORT-EVENT.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: not specified.

   o  ABORT-EVENT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Communication Lost' event

      Returns: abort reason from the peer (if available)

      Comments: the application is informed that the other side has
      aborted the connection using CONNECTION.TERMINATION.ABORT.SCTP.

   o  CLOSE-EVENT.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: not specified.

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   o  CLOSE-EVENT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Shutdown Complete' event

      Comments: the application is informed that
      CONNECTION.TERMINATION.CLOSE.SCTP was successfully completed.

4.2.  DATA Transfer Related Primitives

   All primitives in this section refer to an existing connection, i.e.
   a connection that was either established or made available for
   receiving data (although this is optional for the primitives of UDP(-
   Lite)).  In addition to the listed parameters, all sending primitives
   contain a reference to a data block and all receiving primitives
   contain a reference to available buffer space for the data.  Note
   that CONNECT.TCP and LISTEN.TCP in the ESTABLISHMENT and AVAILABILITY
   category also allow to transfer data (an optional user message)
   before the connection is fully established.

   o  SEND.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Send'

      Parameters: timeout (optional); current_key (optional); rnext_key
      (optional)

      Comments: this gives TCP a data block for reliable transmission to
      the TCP on the other side of the connection.  The timeout can be
      configured with this call (see also
      CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE.CHANGE_TIMEOUT.TCP). 'current_key' and
      'rnext_key' are authentication parameters that can be configured
      with this call (see also CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE.SET_AUTH.TCP).

   o  SEND.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Send'

      Parameters: stream number; context (optional); socket (optional);
      unordered flag (optional); no-bundle flag (optional); payload
      protocol-id (optional); pr-policy (optional) pr-value (optional);
      sack-immediately flag (optional); key-id (optional)

      Comments: this gives SCTP a data block for transmission to the
      SCTP on the other side of the connection (SCTP association).  The
      'stream number' denotes the stream to be used.  The 'context'

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      number can later be used to refer to the correct message when an
      error is reported.  The 'socket' can be used to state which path
      should be preferred, if there are multiple paths available (see
      also CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE.SETPRIMARY.SCTP).  The data block can
      be delivered out-of-order if the 'unordered flag' is set.  The
      'no-bundle flag' can be set to indicate a preference to avoid
      bundling.  The 'payload protocol-id' is a number that will, if
      provided, be handed over to the receiving application.  Using pr-
      policy and pr-value the level of reliability can be controlled.
      The 'sack-immediately' flag can be used to indicate that the peer
      should not delay the sending of a SACK corresponding to the
      provided user message.  If specified, the provided key-id is used
      for authenticating the user message.

   o  SEND.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Send'

      Parameters: IP Address and Port Number of the destination endpoint
      (optional if connected)

      Comments: this provides a message for unreliable transmission
      using UDP(-Lite) to the specified transport address.  IP address
      and Port may be omitted for connected UDP(-Lite) sockets.  All
      CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE.SET_*.UDP(-Lite) primitives apply per
      message sent.

   o  RECEIVE.TCP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Receive'.

      Parameters: current_key (optional); rnext_key (optional)

      Comments: 'current_key' and 'rnext_key' are authentication
      parameters that can be read with this call (see also
      CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE.GET_AUTH.TCP).

   o  RECEIVE.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Data Arrive' notification, followed by
      'Receive'

      Parameters: stream number (optional)

      Returns: stream sequence number (optional); partial flag

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      (optional)

      Comments: if the 'stream number' is provided, the call to receive
      only receives data on one particular stream.  If a partial message
      arrives, this is indicated by the 'partial flag', and then the
      'stream sequence number' must be provided such that an application
      can restore the correct order of data blocks that comprise an
      entire message.

   o  RECEIVE.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Receive',

      Parameters: buffer for received datagram

      Comments: all CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE.GET_*.UDP(-Lite) primitives
      apply per message received.

   o  SENDFAILURE-EVENT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Send Failure' notification, optionally
      followed by 'Receive Unsent Message' or 'Receive Unacknowledged
      Message'

      Returns: cause code; context; unsent or unacknowledged message
      (optional)

      Comments: 'cause code' indicates the reason of the failure, and
      'context' is the context number if such a number has been provided
      in DATA.SEND.SCTP, for later use with 'Receive Unsent Message' or
      'Receive Unacknowledged Message', respectively.  These primitives
      can be used to retrieve the unsent or unacknowledged message (or
      part of the message, in case a part was delivered) if desired.

   o  SEND_FAILURE.UDP(-Lite):

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Send'

      Comments: this may be used to probe for the effective PMTU when
      using in combination with the 'MAINTENANCE.SET_DF' primitive.

   o  SENDER_DRY-EVENT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Sender Dry' notification

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      Comments: this informs the application that the stack has no more
      user data to send.

   o  PARTIAL_DELIVERY_ABORTED-EVENT.SCTP:

      Pass 1 primitive / event: 'Partial Delivery Aborted' notification

      Comments: this informs the receiver of a partial message that the
      further delivery of the message has been aborted.

5.  Pass 3

   This section presents the superset of all transport features in all
   protocols that were discussed in the preceding sections, based on the
   list of primitives in pass 2 but also on text in pass 1 to include
   transport features that can be configured in one protocol and are
   static properties in another (congestion control, for example).
   Again, some minor details are omitted for the sake of generalization
   -- e.g., TCP may provide various different IP options, but only
   source route is mandatory to implement, and this detail is not
   visible in the Pass 3 transport feature "Specify IP Options".  As
   before, "UDP(-Lite)" represents both UDP and UDP-Lite, and TCP refers
   to both TCP and MPTCP.

5.1.  CONNECTION Related Transport Features

   ESTABLISHMENT:
   Active creation of a connection from one transport endpoint to one or
   more transport endpoints.

   o  Connect
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP, UDP(-Lite)

   o  Specify which IP Options must always be used
      Protocols: TCP, UDP(-Lite)

   o  Request multiple streams
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Limit the number of inbound streams
      Protocols: SCTP

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   o  Specify number of attempts and/or timeout for the first
      establishment message
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP

   o  Obtain multiple sockets
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Disable MPTCP
      Protocols: MPTCP

   o  Configure authentication
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP
      Comments: with TCP, this allows to configure Master Key Tuples
      (MKTs).  In SCTP, this allows to specify which chunk types must
      always be authenticated.  DATA, ACK etc. are different 'chunks' in
      SCTP; one or more chunks may be included in a single packet.

   o  Indicate an Adaptation Layer (via an adaptation code point)
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Request to negotiate interleaving of user messages
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Hand over a message to reliably transfer (possibly multiple times)
      before connection establishment
      Protocols: TCP

   o  Hand over a message to reliably transfer during connection
      establishment
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Enable UDP encapsulation with a specified remote UDP port number
      Protocols: SCTP

   AVAILABILITY:
   Preparing to receive incoming connection requests.

   o  Listen, 1 specified local interface
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP, UDP(-Lite)

   o  Listen, N specified local interfaces
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Listen, all local interfaces
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP, UDP(-Lite)

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   o  Obtain requested number of streams
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Limit the number of inbound streams
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Specify which IP Options must always be used
      Protocols: TCP, UDP(-Lite)

   o  Disable MPTCP
      Protocols: MPTCP

   o  Configure authentication
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP
      Comments: with TCP, this allows to configure Master Key Tuples
      (MKTs).  In SCTP, this allows to specify which chunk types must
      always be authenticated.  DATA, ACK etc. are different 'chunks' in
      SCTP; one or more chunks may be included in a single packet.

   o  Indicate an Adaptation Layer (via an adaptation code point)
      Protocols: SCTP

   MAINTENANCE:
   Adjustments made to an open connection, or notifications about it.

   o  Change timeout for aborting connection (using retransmit limit or
      time value)
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP

   o  Suggest timeout to the peer
      Protocols: TCP

   o  Disable Nagle algorithm
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP

   o  Request an immediate heartbeat, returning success/failure
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Notification of Excessive Retransmissions (early warning below
      abortion threshold)
      Protocols: TCP

   o  Add path
      Protocols: MPTCP, SCTP
      MPTCP Parameters: source-IP; source-Port; destination-IP;
      destination-Port
      SCTP Parameters: local IP address

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   o  Remove path
      Protocols: MPTCP, SCTP
      MPTCP Parameters: source-IP; source-Port; destination-IP;
      destination-Port
      SCTP Parameters: local IP address

   o  Set primary path
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Suggest primary path to the peer
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Configure Path Switchover
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Obtain status (query or notification)
      Protocols: SCTP, MPTCP
      SCTP parameters: association connection state; destination
      transport address list; destination transport address reachability
      states; current local and peer receiver window sizes; current
      local congestion window sizes; number of unacknowledged DATA
      chunks; number of DATA chunks pending receipt; primary path; most
      recent SRTT on primary path; RTO on primary path; SRTT and RTO on
      other destination addresses; MTU per path; interleaving supported
      yes/no
      MPTCP parameters: subflow-list (identified by source-IP; source-
      Port; destination-IP; destination-Port)

   o  Specify DSCP field
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP, UDP(-Lite)

   o  Notification of ICMP error message arrival
      Protocols: TCP, UDP(-Lite)

   o  Change authentication parameters
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP

   o  Obtain authentication information
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP

   o  Reset Stream
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Notification of Stream Reset
      Protocols: STCP

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   o  Reset Association
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Notification of Association Reset
      Protocols: STCP

   o  Add Streams
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Notification of Added Stream
      Protocols: STCP

   o  Choose a scheduler to operate between streams of an association
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Configure priority or weight for a scheduler
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Specify IPv6 flow label field
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Configure send buffer size
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Configure receive buffer (and rwnd) size
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Configure message fragmentation
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Configure PMTUD
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Configure delayed SACK timer
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Set Cookie life value
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Set maximum burst
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Configure size where messages are broken up for partial delivery
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Disable checksum when sending
      Protocols: UDP

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   o  Disable checksum requirement when receiving
      Protocols: UDP

   o  Specify checksum coverage used by the sender
      Protocols: UDP-Lite

   o  Specify minimum checksum coverage required by receiver
      Protocols: UDP-Lite

   o  Specify DF field
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Get max. transport-message size that may be sent using a non-
      fragmented IP packet from the configured interface
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Get max. transport-message size that may be received from the
      configured interface
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Specify TTL/Hop count field
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Obtain TTL/Hop count field
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Specify ECN field
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Obtain ECN field
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Specify IP Options
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Obtain IP Options
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Enable and configure "Low Extra Delay Background Transfer"
      Protocols: A protocol implementing the LEDBAT congestion control
      mechanism

   TERMINATION:
   Gracefully or forcefully closing a connection, or being informed
   about this event happening.

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   o  Close after reliably delivering all remaining data, causing an
      event informing the application on the other side
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP
      Comments: a TCP endpoint locally only closes the connection for
      sending; it may still receive data afterwards.

   o  Abort without delivering remaining data, causing an event
      informing the application on the other side
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP
      Comments: in SCTP a reason can optionally be given by the
      application on the aborting side, which can then be received by
      the application on the other side.

   o  Abort without delivering remaining data, not causing an event
      informing the application on the other side
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Timeout event when data could not be delivered for too long
      Protocols: TCP, SCTP
      Comments: the timeout is configured with CONNECTION.MAINTENANCE
      "Change timeout for aborting connection (using retransmit limit or
      time value)".

5.2.  DATA Transfer Related Transport Features

   All transport features in this section refer to an existing
   connection, i.e. a connection that was either established or made
   available for receiving data.  Note that TCP allows to transfer data
   (a single optional user message, possibly arriving multiple times)
   before the connection is fully established.  Reliable data transfer
   entails delay -- e.g. for the sender to wait until it can transmit
   data, or due to retransmission in case of packet loss.

5.2.1.  Sending Data

   All transport features in this section are provided by DATA.SEND from
   pass 2.  DATA.SEND is given a data block from the application, which
   we here call a "message" if the beginning and end of the data block
   can be identified at the receiver, and "data" otherwise.

   o  Reliably transfer data, with congestion control
      Protocols: TCP

   o  Reliably transfer a message, with congestion control
      Protocols: SCTP

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   o  Unreliably transfer a message, with congestion control
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Unreliably transfer a message, without congestion control
      Protocols: UDP(-Lite)

   o  Configurable Message Reliability
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Choice of stream
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Choice of path (destination address)
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Ordered message delivery (potentially slower than unordered)
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Unordered message delivery (potentially faster than ordered)
      Protocols: SCTP, UDP(-Lite)

   o  Request not to bundle messages
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Specifying a "payload protocol-id" (handed over as such by the
      receiver)
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Specifying a key id to be used to authenticate a message
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Request not to delay the acknowledgement (SACK) of a message
      Protocols: SCTP

5.2.2.  Receiving Data

   All transport features in this section are provided by DATA.RECEIVE
   from pass 2.  DATA.RECEIVE fills a buffer provided by the
   application, with what we here call a "message" if the beginning and
   end of the data block can be identified at the receiver, and "data"
   otherwise.

   o  Receive data (with no message delimiting)
      Protocols: TCP

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   o  Receive a message
      Protocols: SCTP, UDP(-Lite)

   o  Choice of stream to receive from
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Information about partial message arrival
      Protocols: SCTP
      Comments: in SCTP, partial messages are combined with a stream
      sequence number so that the application can restore the correct
      order of data blocks an entire message consists of.

5.2.3.  Errors

   This section describes sending failures that are associated with a
   specific call to DATA.SEND from pass 2.

   o  Notification of an unsent (part of a) message
      Protocols: SCTP, UDP(-Lite)

   o  Notification of an unacknowledged (part of a) message
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Notification that the stack has no more user data to send
      Protocols: SCTP

   o  Notification to a receiver that a partial message delivery has
      been aborted
      Protocols: SCTP

6.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank (in alphabetical order) Bob Briscoe,
   Spencer Dawkins, Aaron Falk, David Hayes, Karen Nielsen, Tommy Pauly,
   Joe Touch and Brian Trammell for providing valuable feedback on this
   document.  We especially thank Christoph Paasch for providing input
   related to Multipath TCP, and Gorry Fairhurst and Tom Jones for
   providing input related to UDP(-Lite).  This work has received
   funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and
   innovation programme under grant agreement No. 644334 (NEAT).

7.  IANA Considerations

   This memo includes no request to IANA.

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8.  Security Considerations

   Authentication, confidentiality protection, and integrity protection
   are identified as transport features [RFC8095].  These transport
   features are generally provided by a protocol or layer on top of the
   transport protocol; none of the transport protocols considered in
   this document provides these transport features on its own.
   Therefore, these transport features are not considered in this
   document, with the exception of native authentication capabilities of
   TCP and SCTP for which the security considerations in [RFC5925] and
   [RFC4895] apply.

   Security considerations for the use of UDP and UDP-Lite are provided
   in the referenced RFCs.  Security guidance for application usage is
   provided in the UDP-Guidelines [RFC8085].

9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

   [FJ16]     Fairhurst, G. and T. Jones, "Features of the User Datagram
              Protocol (UDP) and Lightweight UDP (UDP-Lite) Transport
              Protocols", draft-ietf-taps-transports-usage-udp-04 (work
              in progress), July 2017.

   [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctp-ndata]
              Stewart, R., Tuexen, M., Loreto, S., and R. Seggelmann,
              "Stream Schedulers and User Message Interleaving for the
              Stream Control Transmission Protocol",
              draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-ndata-08 (work in progress),
              October 2016.

   [RFC0793]  Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7,
              RFC 793, DOI 10.17487/RFC0793, September 1981,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc793>.

   [RFC1122]  Braden, R., Ed., "Requirements for Internet Hosts -
              Communication Layers", STD 3, RFC 1122, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC1122, October 1989,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1122>.

   [RFC3758]  Stewart, R., Ramalho, M., Xie, Q., Tuexen, M., and P.
              Conrad, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
              Partial Reliability Extension", RFC 3758, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC3758, May 2004,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3758>.

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   [RFC4895]  Tuexen, M., Stewart, R., Lei, P., and E. Rescorla,
              "Authenticated Chunks for the Stream Control Transmission
              Protocol (SCTP)", RFC 4895, DOI 10.17487/RFC4895,
              August 2007, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4895>.

   [RFC4960]  Stewart, R., Ed., "Stream Control Transmission Protocol",
              RFC 4960, DOI 10.17487/RFC4960, September 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4960>.

   [RFC5061]  Stewart, R., Xie, Q., Tuexen, M., Maruyama, S., and M.
              Kozuka, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
              Dynamic Address Reconfiguration", RFC 5061, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC5061, September 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5061>.

   [RFC5482]  Eggert, L. and F. Gont, "TCP User Timeout Option",
              RFC 5482, DOI 10.17487/RFC5482, March 2009,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5482>.

   [RFC5925]  Touch, J., Mankin, A., and R. Bonica, "The TCP
              Authentication Option", RFC 5925, DOI 10.17487/RFC5925,
              June 2010, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5925>.

   [RFC6182]  Ford, A., Raiciu, C., Handley, M., Barre, S., and J.
              Iyengar, "Architectural Guidelines for Multipath TCP
              Development", RFC 6182, DOI 10.17487/RFC6182, March 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6182>.

   [RFC6458]  Stewart, R., Tuexen, M., Poon, K., Lei, P., and V.
              Yasevich, "Sockets API Extensions for the Stream Control
              Transmission Protocol (SCTP)", RFC 6458, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC6458, December 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6458>.

   [RFC6525]  Stewart, R., Tuexen, M., and P. Lei, "Stream Control
              Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Stream Reconfiguration",
              RFC 6525, DOI 10.17487/RFC6525, February 2012,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6525>.

   [RFC6817]  Shalunov, S., Hazel, G., Iyengar, J., and M. Kuehlewind,
              "Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)", RFC 6817,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6817, December 2012,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6817>.

   [RFC6824]  Ford, A., Raiciu, C., Handley, M., and O. Bonaventure,
              "TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple
              Addresses", RFC 6824, DOI 10.17487/RFC6824, January 2013,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6824>.

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   [RFC6897]  Scharf, M. and A. Ford, "Multipath TCP (MPTCP) Application
              Interface Considerations", RFC 6897, DOI 10.17487/RFC6897,
              March 2013, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6897>.

   [RFC6951]  Tuexen, M. and R. Stewart, "UDP Encapsulation of Stream
              Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Packets for End-Host
              to End-Host Communication", RFC 6951, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC6951, May 2013,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6951>.

   [RFC7053]  Tuexen, M., Ruengeler, I., and R. Stewart, "SACK-
              IMMEDIATELY Extension for the Stream Control Transmission
              Protocol", RFC 7053, DOI 10.17487/RFC7053, November 2013,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7053>.

   [RFC7413]  Cheng, Y., Chu, J., Radhakrishnan, S., and A. Jain, "TCP
              Fast Open", RFC 7413, DOI 10.17487/RFC7413, December 2014,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7413>.

   [RFC7496]  Tuexen, M., Seggelmann, R., Stewart, R., and S. Loreto,
              "Additional Policies for the Partially Reliable Stream
              Control Transmission Protocol Extension", RFC 7496,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7496, April 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7496>.

   [RFC7829]  Nishida, Y., Natarajan, P., Caro, A., Amer, P., and K.
              Nielsen, "SCTP-PF: A Quick Failover Algorithm for the
              Stream Control Transmission Protocol", RFC 7829,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7829, April 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7829>.

   [RFC8085]  Eggert, L., Fairhurst, G., and G. Shepherd, "UDP Usage
              Guidelines", BCP 145, RFC 8085, DOI 10.17487/RFC8085,
              March 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8085>.

9.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.draft-gjessing-taps-minset]
              Gjessing, S. and M. Welzl, "A Minimal Set of Transport
              Services for TAPS Systems", draft-gjessing-taps-minset-05
              (work in progress), June 2017.

   [RFC0854]  Postel, J. and J. Reynolds, "Telnet Protocol
              Specification", STD 8, RFC 854, DOI 10.17487/RFC0854,
              May 1983, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc854>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/

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              RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC2474]  Nichols, K., Blake, S., Baker, F., and D. Black,
              "Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS
              Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers", RFC 2474,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2474, December 1998,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2474>.

   [RFC2475]  Blake, S., Black, D., Carlson, M., Davies, E., Wang, Z.,
              and W. Weiss, "An Architecture for Differentiated
              Services", RFC 2475, DOI 10.17487/RFC2475, December 1998,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2475>.

   [RFC3260]  Grossman, D., "New Terminology and Clarifications for
              Diffserv", RFC 3260, DOI 10.17487/RFC3260, April 2002,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3260>.

   [RFC5461]  Gont, F., "TCP's Reaction to Soft Errors", RFC 5461,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5461, February 2009,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5461>.

   [RFC6093]  Gont, F. and A. Yourtchenko, "On the Implementation of the
              TCP Urgent Mechanism", RFC 6093, DOI 10.17487/RFC6093,
              January 2011, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6093>.

   [RFC7414]  Duke, M., Braden, R., Eddy, W., Blanton, E., and A.
              Zimmermann, "A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol
              (TCP) Specification Documents", RFC 7414, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC7414, February 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7414>.

   [RFC7657]  Black, D., Ed. and P. Jones, "Differentiated Services
              (Diffserv) and Real-Time Communication", RFC 7657,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7657, November 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7657>.

   [RFC8095]  Fairhurst, G., Ed., Trammell, B., Ed., and M. Kuehlewind,
              Ed., "Services Provided by IETF Transport Protocols and
              Congestion Control Mechanisms", RFC 8095, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC8095, March 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8095>.

Appendix A.  Overview of RFCs used as input for pass 1

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   TCP:  [RFC0793], [RFC1122], [RFC5482], [RFC5925], [RFC7413]
   MPTCP:  [RFC6182], [RFC6824], [RFC6897]
   SCTP:  RFCs without a socket API specification: [RFC3758], [RFC4895],
      [RFC4960], [RFC5061].
      RFCs that include a socket API specification: [RFC6458],
      [RFC6525], [RFC6951], [RFC7053], [RFC7496] [RFC7829].
   UDP(-Lite):  See [FJ16]
   LEDBAT:  [RFC6817].

Appendix B.  How this document was developed

   This section gives an overview of the method that was used to develop
   this document.  It was given to contributors for guidance, and it can
   be helpful for future updates or extensions.

   This document is only concerned with transport features that are
   explicitly exposed to applications via primitives.  It also strictly
   follows RFC text: if a transport feature is truly relevant for an
   application, the RFCs should say so, and they should describe how to
   use and configure it.  Thus, the approach followed for developing
   this document was to identify the right RFCs, then analyze and
   process their text.

   Primitives that "MAY" be implemented by a transport protocol were
   excluded.  To be included, the minimum requirement level for a
   primitive to be implemented by a protocol was "SHOULD".  Where
   [RFC2119]-style requirements levels are not used, primitives were
   excluded when they are described in conjunction with statements like,
   e.g.: "some implementations also provide" or "an implementation may
   also".  Excluded primitives or parameters were briefly described in a
   dedicated subsection.

   Pass 1: This began by identifying text that talks about primitives.
   An API specification, abstract or not, obviously describes primitives
   -- but we are not *only* interested in API specifications.  The text
   describing the 'send' primitive in the API specified in [RFC0793],
   for instance, does not say that data transfer is reliable.  TCP's
   reliability is clear, however, from this text in Section 1 of
   [RFC0793]: "The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is intended for
   use as a highly reliable host-to-host protocol between hosts in
   packet-switched computer communication networks, and in
   interconnected systems of such networks."

   Some text for pass 1 subsections was developed copy+pasting all the
   relevant text parts from the relevant RFCs, then adjusting
   terminology to match the terminology in Section 1 and adjusting
   (shortening!) phrasing to match the general style of the document.

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   An effort was made to formulate everything as a primitive description
   such that the primitive descriptions became as complete as possible
   (e.g., the "SEND.TCP" primitive in pass 2 is explicitly described as
   reliably transferring data); text that is relevant for the primitives
   presented in this pass but still does not fit directly under any
   primitive was used in a subsection's introduction.

   Pass 2: The main goal of this pass is unification of primitives.  As
   input, only text from pass 1 was used (no exterior sources).  The
   list in pass 2 is not arranged by protocol ("first protocol X, here
   are all the primitives; then protocol Y, here are all the primitives,
   ..") but by primitive ("primitive A, implemented this way in protocol
   X, this way in protocol Y, ...").  It was a goal to obtain as many
   similar pass 2 primitives as possible.  For instance, this was
   sometimes achieved by not always maintaining a 1:1 mapping between
   pass 1 and pass 2 primitives, renaming primitives etc.  For every new
   primitive, the already existing primitives were considered to try to
   make them as coherent as possible.

   For each primitive, the following style was used:

   o  PRIMITIVENAME.PROTOCOL:
      Pass 1 primitive / event:
      Parameters:
      Returns:
      Comments:

   The entries "Parameters", "Returns" and "Comments" were skipped when
   a primitive had no parameters, no described return value or no
   comments seemed necessary, respectively.  Optional parameters are
   followed by "(optional)".  When a default value is known, this was
   also provided.

   Pass 3: the main point of this pass is to identify transport features
   that are the result of static properties of protocols, for which all
   protocols have to be listed together; this is then the final list of
   all available transport features.  This list was primarily based on
   text from pass 2, with additional input from pass 1 (but no external
   sources).

Appendix C.  Revision information

   XXX RFC-Ed please remove this section prior to publication.

   -00 (from draft-welzl-taps-transports): this now covers TCP based on
   all TCP RFCs (this means: if you know of something in any TCP RFC
   that you think should be addressed, please speak up!) as well as

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   SCTP, exclusively based on [RFC4960].  We decided to also incorporate
   [RFC6458] for SCTP, but this hasn't happened yet.  Terminology made
   in line with [RFC8095].  Addressed comments by Karen Nielsen and
   Gorry Fairhurst; various other fixes.  Appendices (TCP overview and
   how-to-contribute) added.

   -01: this now also covers MPTCP based on [RFC6182], [RFC6824] and
   [RFC6897].

   -02: included UDP, UDP-Lite, and all extensions of SCTPs.  This
   includes fixing the [RFC6458] omission from -00.

   -03: wrote security considerations.  The "how to contribute" section
   was updated to reflect how the document *was* created, not how it
   *should be* created; it also no longer wrongly says that Experimental
   RFCs are excluded.  Included LEDBAT.  Changed abstract and intro to
   reflect which protocols/mechanisms are covered (TCP, MPTCP, SCTP,
   UDP, UDP-Lite, LEDBAT) instead of talking about "transport
   protocols".  Interleaving and stream scheduling added
   (draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-ndata).  TFO added.  "Set protocol parameters"
   in SCTP replaced with per-parameter (or parameter group) primitives.
   More primitives added, mostly previously overlooked ones from
   [RFC6458].  Updated terminology (s/transport service feature/
   transport feature) in line with an update of [RFC8095].  Made
   sequence of transport features / primitives more logical.  Combined
   MPTCP's add/rem subflow with SCTP's add/remove local address.

   -04: changed UDP's close into an ABORT (to better fit with the
   primitives of TCP and SCTP), and incorporated the corresponding
   transport feature in step 3 (this addresses a comment from Gorry
   Fairhurst).  Added TCP Authentication (RFC 5925, section 7.1).
   Changed TFO from looking like a primitive in pass 1 to be a part of
   'open'.  Changed description of SCTP authentication in pass 3 to
   encompass both TCP and SCTP.  Added citations of [RFC8095] and minset
   [I-D.draft-gjessing-taps-minset] to the intro, to give the context of
   this document.

   -05: minor fix to TCP authentication (comment from Joe Touch),
   several fixes from Gorry Fairhurst and Tom Jones.  Language fixes;
   updated to align with latest taps-transport-usage-udp ID.

   -06: addressed WGLC comments from Aaron Falk and Tommy Pauly.

   -07: addressed AD review comments from Spencer Dawkins.

   -08: removed "delivery number" which was based on an error in RFC
   4960: https://tools.ietf.org/html/
   draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-errata-02#section-3.34.

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   -09: for consistency with the draft-ietf-taps-minset-00, adjusted the
   following transport features in "pass 3": "Choice between unordered
   (potentially faster) or ordered delivery of messages" divided into
   two transport features (one for unordered, one for ordered); the word
   "reliably" was added to the transport features "Hand over a message
   to reliably transfer (possibly multiple times) before connection
   establishment" and "Hand over a message to reliably transfer during
   connection establishment".  Fixed RFC2119-style language into
   explicit citations (comment by Eric Rescorla and others).  Addressed
   editorial comments by Mirja Kuehlewind, Ben Campbell, Benoit Claise
   and the Gen-ART reviewer Roni Even, except for moving terminology
   section after the intro because the terminology is already used in
   the intro text.

Authors' Addresses

   Michael Welzl
   University of Oslo
   PO Box 1080 Blindern
   Oslo,   N-0316
   Norway

   Email: michawe@ifi.uio.no

   Michael Tuexen
   Muenster University of Applied Sciences
   Stegerwaldstrasse 39
   Steinfurt  48565
   Germany

   Email: tuexen@fh-muenster.de

   Naeem Khademi
   University of Oslo
   PO Box 1080 Blindern
   Oslo,   N-0316
   Norway

   Email: naeemk@ifi.uio.no

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