TCP
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... transport protocols are maintained in
this RFC despite the optimizations that could be made if the line
were somewhat blurred (i.e. merging TCP and IP into a single, larger
element ...
... existing protocols remain unchanged. Routing, address spaces, TCP
congestion control, etc. behave as specified in the extant standards.
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... TCP Description ...
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A number of items have changed from the original TCP specification.
Bit-masks, where present have been converted into human-readable ...
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To calculate the length and checksum fields of the TCP element, a
canonicalized form of the element ...
... element MUST be encoded as in section 2.1.
The TCP offset element was expanded to a maximum of 255 from 16 to
allow for the increased size of the header ...
... Security considerations
that apply to IP, TCP and UDP also likely apply to BLOAT as it does
not attempt to correct for issues not related to message format ...