{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-tsvwg-tfrc-05",
  "doc_id": "RFC3448",
  "title": "TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification",
  "authors": [
    "M. Handley",
    "S. Floyd",
    "J. Padhye",
    "J. Widmer"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "24",
  "pub_status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "source": "Transport and Services Working Group",
  "abstract": "This document specifies TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC).  TFRC is a congestion control mechanism for unicast flows operating in a best- effort Internet environment.  It is reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP flows, but has a much lower variation of throughput over time compared with TCP, making it more suitable for applications such as telephony or streaming media where a relatively smooth sending rate is of importance. [STANDARDS-TRACK]",
  "pub_date": "January 2003",
  "keywords": [
    "TFRC",
    "TCP Friendly Rate Control",
    "congestion",
    "unicast",
    "streaming media"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC5348"
  ],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC3448",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc3448"
}