{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-tcpm-early-rexmt-04",
  "doc_id": "RFC5827",
  "title": "Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)",
  "authors": [
    "M. Allman",
    "K. Avrachenkov",
    "U. Ayesta",
    "J. Blanton",
    "P. Hurtig"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "15",
  "pub_status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "source": "TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions",
  "abstract": "This document proposes a new mechanism for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) that can be used to recover lost segments when a connection's congestion window is small.  The \"Early Retransmit\" mechanism allows the transport to reduce, in certain special circumstances, the number of duplicate acknowledgments required to trigger a fast retransmission.  This allows the transport to use fast retransmit to recover segment losses that would otherwise require a lengthy retransmission timeout. [STANDARDS-TRACK]",
  "pub_date": "April 2010",
  "keywords": [
    "transmission control protocol",
    "fast retransmission"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC5827",
  "errata_url": null
}