Transmission Control Protocol
= Transmission Control Protocol
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= TCP
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<Transmission Control Protocol> provides a reliable ordered byte-stream service between its <endpoints>, using sequencing, acknowledgements and retransmission. Receipt by that transport does not establish that a receiving application has durably stored the data or completed a user operation.<Transmission Control Protocol (RFC 793)>[§§1.5 and 2.6: operation and reliable communication]{ref}