'''[http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4960%|%Stream Control Transmission Protocol]''' is designed to transport Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) signalling messages over [IP] networks. but is capable of broader applications.



** Reference **

   [http://www.iem.uni-due.de/~dreibh/sctp/%|%SCTP Project page], by Thomas Dreibholz:   

   [http://www.sctp.be/%|%SCTP website]:   

   [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCTP%|%Stream Control Transmission Protocol], Wikipedia:   

   [http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/sctp.htm%|%SCTP], [http://networksourcery.com%|%Network Sorcery]:   

   [http://www.sctp.de/sctp.html%|%sctp.de]:   



** Documentation **

   [RFC] [http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4960%|%4960], Stream Control Transmission Protocol, 2007-09:   

   [https://web.archive.org/web/20100327032854/http://tdrwww.exp-math.uni-essen.de/inhalt/forschung/sctp_fb/%|%SCTP for Beginners]:   

   [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9748%|%Introduction to Stream Control Transmission Protocol], Jan Newmarch, 2007-09-01:   

   [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9749%|%Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Associations], Jan Newmarch, 2007-10-01:   



** Description **

SCTP is an alternative to [TCP] or [UDP]. 

Two important facts about SCTP:

   * it's designed to transport PSTN (conventional telephony) over [IP]; and
   * the third (that is, the posthumous) edition of [http://www.unpbook.com/%|%Unix Network Programming], by Richard Stevens, covers it.

The big question for Tclers is whether [Tcl] deserves an SCTP-savvy
[extension].  Is [ceptcl] a good location?


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