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	Title		: UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
	Author(s)	: L. Eggert
	Filename	: draft-eggert-tsvwg-udp-guidelines-01.txt
	Pages		: 11
	Date		: 2007-3-20

The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal, message-passing
   transport that has no inherent congestion control mechanisms.
   Because congestion control is critical to the stable operation of the
   Internet, applications and upper-layer protocols that choose to use
   UDP as an Internet transport must employ mechanisms to prevent
   congestion collapse and establish some degree of fairness with
   concurrent traffic.  This document provides guidelines on the use of
   UDP for the designers of such applications and upper-layer protocols
   that cover congestion-control and other topics, including message
   sizes and reliability.

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