{
  "number": 2988,
  "title": "Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer",
  "authors": [
    "V. Paxson",
    "M. Allman"
  ],
  "published": "2000-11",
  "status": "Proposed Standard",
  "stream": "IETF",
  "area": "wit",
  "working_group": "tsvwg",
  "pages": 8,
  "formats": [
    "TXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "abstract": "This document defines the standard algorithm that Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) senders are required to use to compute and manage their retransmission timer. [STANDARDS-TRACK]",
  "keywords": [
    "TCP",
    "transmission control protocol",
    "algorithm"
  ],
  "draft": "draft-paxson-tcp-rto-01",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC2988",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc2988",
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC6298"
  ],
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc2988/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc2988.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2988",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2988/"
  },
  "text_modified": "2000-11-02T16:47:00Z"
}