3257: Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement.

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This document describes the applicability of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). It also contrasts SCTP with the two dominant transport protocols, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) & Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and gives some guidelines for when best to use SCTP and when not best to use SCTP.

Status INFORMATIONAL
Format TXT=24198 bytes
Authors
Date April 2002
Keyphrases SCTP protocols TCP Applicability Statement

References

RFC768: User Datagram Protocol.
RFC793: Transmission Control Protocol.
RFC1321: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm.
RFC1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance.
RFC1750: Randomness Recommendations for Security.
RFC1889: RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications. Audio-Video Transport Working Group,
RFC2246: The TLS Protocol Version 1.0.
RFC2401: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol.
RFC2663: IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and Considerations.
RFC2694: DNS extensions to Network Address Translators (DNS_ALG).
RFC2719: Framework Architecture for Signaling Transport.
RFC2960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol.

Referenced by

RFC4166: Telephony Signalling Transport over Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Applicability Statement.
RFC4168: The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) as a Transport for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).