RFC 793

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RFC 793 is the foundational Internet standard that defines the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), specifying how reliable, ordered, and error-checked data transmission works between hosts on an IP network.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Internet standard
Request for Comments
TCP specification
abbreviation RFC 793
appliesTo IP networks
area Computer networking
Internet protocols
author Jon Postel
category Standards Track
datePublished September 1981
defines TCP acknowledgment mechanism
TCP connection establishment
TCP connection termination
TCP flow control
TCP header format
TCP options mechanism
TCP retransmission behavior
TCP sequence numbers
TCP state machine
TCP urgent data handling
definesProtocol Transmission Control Protocol
editor Jon Postel
influenced modern TCP implementations
language English
layer transport layer
obsoletedBy RFC 9293
partOf TCP/IP
surface form: TCP/IP protocol suite
protocolAcronym Transmission Control Protocol
surface form: TCP
publishedBy Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Internet Activities Board
Internet Engineering Task Force
publisherSeries RFCs
surface form: RFC series
relatedTo Internet Protocol
RFC 1122
RFC 791
host requirements
specifies TCP timers
TCP user interface assumptions
error reporting for TCP
half-close behavior
reset (RST) processing
three-way handshake
standardizes error-checked data transmission
ordered data delivery
reliable data transmission
status Internet Standard
title Transmission Control Protocol
yearPublished 1981

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Jon Postel notableWork RFC 793
RFC 791 relatedTo RFC 793