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TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses
RFC 8684

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2024-01-25
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Verified Errata tag)
2023-01-04
Jenny Bui Posted related IPR disclosure Koninklijke KPN N.V.'s Statement about IPR related to RFC 8684 belonging to Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO)
2021-06-15
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2021-06-01
Jenny Bui Posted related IPR disclosure Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)'s Statement about IPR related to RFC 8684
2020-04-03
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC8684
2020-03-30
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8684, changed abstract to 'TCP/IP communication is currently restricted to a single path per connection, …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8684, changed abstract to 'TCP/IP communication is currently restricted to a single path per connection, yet multiple paths often exist between peers. The simultaneous use of these multiple paths for a TCP/IP session would improve resource usage within the network and thus improve user experience through higher throughput and improved resilience to network failure.

Multipath TCP provides the ability to simultaneously use multiple paths between peers. This document presents a set of extensions to traditional TCP to support multipath operation. The protocol offers the same type of service to applications as TCP (i.e., a reliable bytestream), and it provides the components necessary to establish and use multiple TCP flows across potentially disjoint paths.

This document specifies v1 of Multipath TCP, obsoleting v0 as specified in RFC 6824, through clarifications and modifications primarily driven by deployment experience.', changed pages to 68, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2020-03-30, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-mptcp-rfc6824bis and RFC 6824)
2020-03-30
(System) RFC published