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<title abbrev='Transaction TCP - Concepts'>Extending TCP for Transactions -- Concepts</title>
<author initials='B.' surname='Braden' fullname='Bob Braden'>
<organization>University of Southern California,  Information Sciences Institute</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>4676 Admiralty Way</street>
<city>Marina del Rey</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>90292</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 310 822 1511</phone>
<email>Braden@ISI.EDU</email></address></author>
<date month='November' year='1992' />
<abstract>
<t>This memo discusses extension of TCP to provide transaction-oriented service, without altering its virtual-circuit operation.  This extension would fill the large gap between connection-oriented TCP and datagram-based UDP, allowing TCP to efficiently perform many applications for which UDP is currently used.  A separate memo contains a detailed functional specification for this proposed extension.</t>
<t>This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number NCR-8922231.</t></abstract></front>

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