RFC 3436 (rfc3436) - Page 1 of 9
Transport Layer Security over Stream Control Transmission Protocol
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Network Working Group A. Jungmaier
Request for Comments: 3436 University of Essen
Category: Standards Track E. Rescorla
RTFM Inc.
M. Tuexen
Siemens AG
December 2002
Transport Layer Security over
Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes the usage of the Transport Layer Security
(TLS) protocol, as defined in RFC 2246, over the Stream Control
Transmission Protocol (SCTP), as defined in RFC 2960 and RFC 3309.
The user of TLS can take advantage of the features provided by SCTP,
namely the support of multiple streams to avoid head of line blocking
and the support of multi-homing to provide network level fault
tolerance.
Additionally, discussions of extensions of SCTP are also supported,
meaning especially the support of dynamic reconfiguration of IP-
addresses.
Jungmaier, et al. Standards Track
