BibSonomy publications for /user/phbaer/transmissionTue Jul 15 20:29:03 CEST 2008September79385Transmission Control ProtocolRFC1981control protocol transmission The specification of TCP. Replaces RFCs 761 and 675. This document describes the DoD Standard Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). There have been nine earlier editions of the ARPA TCP specification on which this standard is based, and the present text draws heavily from them. There have been many contributors to this work both in terms of concepts and in terms of text. This edition clarifies several details and removes the end-of-letter buffer-size adjustments, and redescribes the letter mechanism as a push function.