{
  "draft": null,
  "doc_id": "RFC879",
  "title": "The TCP Maximum Segment Size and Related Topics",
  "authors": [
    "J. Postel"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "11",
  "pub_status": "UNKNOWN",
  "status": "HISTORIC",
  "source": "Legacy",
  "abstract": "This RFC discusses the TCP Maximum Segment Size Option and related topics.  The purposes is to clarify some aspects of TCP and its interaction with IP.  This memo is a clarification to the TCP specification, and contains information that may be considered as \"advice to implementers\".",
  "pub_date": "November 1983",
  "keywords": [],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC7805",
    "RFC9293"
  ],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [
    "RFC6691"
  ],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC879",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc879"
}