{
  "draft": "draft-handley-tcp-cwv-01",
  "doc_id": "RFC2861",
  "title": "TCP Congestion Window Validation",
  "authors": [
    "M. Handley",
    "J. Padhye",
    "S. Floyd"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "11",
  "pub_status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "status": "HISTORIC",
  "source": "Transport and Services Working Group",
  "abstract": "This document describes a simple modification to TCP's congestion control algorithms to decay the congestion window cwnd after the transition from a sufficiently-long application-limited period, while using the slow-start threshold ssthresh to save information about the previous value of the congestion window.  This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.",
  "pub_date": "June 2000",
  "keywords": [
    "TCP",
    "transmission control protocol"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC7661"
  ],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC2861",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc2861"
}