{"draft":"draft-ietf-tsvwg-dsack-use-02","doc_id":"RFC3708","title":" Using TCP Duplicate Selective Acknowledgement (DSACKs) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Duplicate Transmission Sequence Numbers (TSNs) to Detect Spurious Retransmissions ","authors":["E. Blanton","M. Allman"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"9","pub_status":"EXPERIMENTAL","status":"EXPERIMENTAL","source":"Transport Area Working Group","abstract":" TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) provide notification of duplicate segment receipt through Duplicate Selective Acknowledgement (DSACKs) and Duplicate Transmission Sequence Number (TSN) notification, respectively.  This document presents conservative methods of using this information to identify unnecessary retransmissions for various applications.  This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. ","pub_date":"January 2004","keywords":["DSACK","Duplicate Selective Acknowledgement","SCTP","Stream Control Transmission Protocol","TSN","Transmission Sequence Number"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC3708","errata_url":null}