Problem Statement for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Sally Floyd, Mark James Handley, Eddie Kohler · 2006
This document describes for the historical record the motivation behind the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), an unreliable transport protocol incorporating end-to-end congestion control. DCCP implements a congestion-controlled, unreliable flow of datagrams for use by applications such as streaming media or on-line games. This memo provides information for the Internet community.