Additional
Information: Internet standards (STDs), Requests for Comments (RFCs), Best Current Practices (BCPs), and maybe an occasional Internet-Draft, all defining and directly related to TCP.
RFCs Sites:
RFC2861 - TCP Congestion Window Validation RFC2861 - TCP Congestion Window Validation: An experimental RFC that addresses revalidation of TCP congestion window after a period of time when connection wasn't network-limited. (RFCs) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2861.txt
RFC1323 - TCP Extensions for High Performance RFC1323 - TCP Extensions for High Performance: Defines TCP Window Scale option, timestamps, and protection against wrapped sequence numbers (PAWS). (RFCs) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1323.txt
RFC3042 - Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit RFC3042 - Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit: A standards-track set of changes to TCP that decreases reliance on the retransmission timer. (RFCs) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3042.txt
RFC2581 - TCP Congestion Control RFC2581 - TCP Congestion Control: Proposed standard set of congestion avoidance features in a TCP implementation. (RFCs) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2581.txt
BCP28 - Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms BCP28 - Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms: Best current practices document describing ways to improve TCP performance over satellite links. (RFCs) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp28.txt
RFC3168 - The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP RFC3168 - The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP: A two-bit IP packet header field that allows to reduce the number of TCP retransmissions in the Internet. (RFCs) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3168.txt
RFC793 - Transmission Control Protocol RFC793 - Transmission Control Protocol: The original TCP definition. Also STD7. (RFCs) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793.txt
RFC2018 - TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options RFC2018 - TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options: Defines SACK (a technique to better recover from multiple packet losses per round-trip time interval). (RFCs) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2018.txt