RFC 2581 on TCP Congestion Control

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        RFC 2581: 

        Title:	    TCP Congestion Control
	Author(s):  M. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens
        Status:     Proposed Standard
	Date:       April 1999
        Mailbox:    mallman@grc.nasa.gov, vern@aciri.org, 
		    rstevens@kohala.com
        Pages:      14	
        Characters: 31351
        Obsoletes:  2001
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tcpimpl-cong-control-05.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2581.txt

his document defines TCP's four intertwined congestion control
algorithms: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and
fast recovery.  In addition, the document specifies how TCP should
begin transmission after a relatively long idle period, as well as
discussing various acknowledgment generation methods.

This document is a product of the TCP Implementation Working Group of
the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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