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authorGerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>2007-11-21 10:00:17 -0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-28 14:54:45 -0800
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[DCCP]: Update documentation
This updates the DCCP documentation, following input from Ian McDonald, clarifiying the status of DCCP, and adding a note about the test tree. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
index f771034e8f27..fdc93beec057 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
@@ -19,19 +19,23 @@ for real time and multimedia traffic.
It has a base protocol and pluggable congestion control IDs (CCIDs).
-It is at proposed standard RFC status and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol
-is at:
- http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/dccp/
+DCCP is a Proposed Standard (RFC 2026), and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol
+is at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dccp-charter.html
Missing features
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-The DCCP implementation does not currently have all the features that are in
-the RFC.
+The Linux DCCP implementation does not currently support all the features that are
+specified in RFCs 4340...42.
The known bugs are at:
http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/TODO#DCCP
+For more up-to-date versions of the DCCP implementation, please consider using
+the experimental DCCP test tree; instructions for checking this out are on:
+http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/DCCP_Testing#Experimental_DCCP_source_tree
+
+
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