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TCP Encapsulation Considerations
draft-pauly-tsvwg-tcp-encapsulation-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Tommy Pauly , Eric Kinnear
Last updated 2019-01-03 (Latest revision 2018-07-02)
Replaces draft-pauly-tcp-encapsulation
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Abstract

Network protocols other than TCP, such as UDP, are often blocked or suboptimally handled by network middleboxes. One strategy that applications can use to continue to send non-TCP traffic on such networks is to encapsulate datagrams or messages within in a TCP stream. However, encapsulating datagrams within TCP streams can lead to performance degradation. This document provides guidelines for how to use TCP for encapsulation, a summary of performance concerns, and some suggested mitigations for these concerns.

Authors

Tommy Pauly
Eric Kinnear

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