A Survey of Lower-than-Best-Effort Transport Protocols

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• IETF RFC 1323 [Superseded*]
• IETF RFC 2309 [Superseded*]
• IETF RFC 3168 [Active*]
• IETF RFC 3662 [Superseded*]
• IETF RFC 5348 [Active*]
• IETF RFC 5681 [Active*]