Possibly not very on topic, but it might not be wise to call TCP a single standard when it has become to complex nowadays. The tangled mess of RFCs describing TCP has become so complex that an RFC is written to provide a roadmap of TCP[0]. And that roadmap references more than 150 other RFCs.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc7414" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc7414</a>