1. Standardization
TCP is a standard protocol of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The basic specification of TCP is in Request for Comments RFC 793
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; although this standard dates back to the early 1980s, the fundamentals of the protocol have not changed significantly since then. However, since TCP was conceived in a context of network technologies and applications very different from those found today, it is still in a constant state of evolution. Numerous modifications, improvements and experimental proposals have been introduced or proposed by various IETF working groups.
So there is no single TCP normative document, but a whole corpus of RFCs and Internet drafts. This makes it difficult to draw up an exhaustive list of documents. The tcpm (TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions) working group is working...
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