Stream Control Transmission Protocol
is designed to transport Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) signalling messages over
IP networks. but is capable of broader applications.
Reference edit
- SCTP Project page, by Thomas Dreibholz
- SCTP website
- Stream Control Transmission Protocol, Wikipedia
- SCTP, Network Sorcery
- sctp.de
Documentation edit
- RFC 4960, Stream Control Transmission Protocol, 2007-09
- SCTP for Beginners
- Introduction to Stream Control Transmission Protocol, Jan Newmarch, 2007-09-01
- Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Associations, Jan Newmarch, 2007-10-01
Description edit
SCTP is an alternative to
TCP or
UDP.
Two important facts about SCTP:
- it's designed to transport PSTN (conventional telephony) over IP; and
- the third (that is, the posthumous) edition of Unix Network Programming, by Richard Stevens, covers it.
The big question for Tclers is whether
Tcl deserves an SCTP-savvy
extension. Is
ceptcl a good location?
