[tcpm] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-uto-02.txt

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	Title		: TCP User Timeout Option
	Author(s)	: L. Eggert, F. Gont
	Filename	: draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-uto-02.txt
	Pages		: 17
	Date		: 2005-10-27

The TCP user timeout controls how long transmitted data may remain
   unacknowledged before a connection is forcefully closed.  It is a
   local, per-connection parameter.  The advisory TCP User Timeout
   Option allows conforming TCP implementations to exchange their local
   user timeouts.  This is an in-protocol mechanism to allow a host to
   modify its local user timeout for a connection based on knowledge of
   the peer's user timeout.  Increasing the user timeouts allows
   established TCP connections to survive extended periods of
   disconnection.  Decreasing user timeouts allows busy servers to
   explicitly notify their clients that they will maintain the
   connection state only across short periods of disconnection.

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