{"draft":"draft-paxson-tcp-rto-01","doc_id":"RFC2988","title":" Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer ","authors":["V. Paxson","M. Allman"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"8","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Transport Area Working Group","abstract":" This document defines the standard algorithm that Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) senders are required to use to compute and manage their retransmission timer.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"October 2000","keywords":["TCP","transmission control protocol","algorithm"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":["RFC6298"],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC2988","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc2988"}