All the up-to-date RFCs can be found at : http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index2.html
Here, I have listed only the current SCTP RFCs and their inter-dependencies (As on June 14, 2012).
As the name implies, INFORMATIONAL RFCs are better than the PROPOSED STANDARD RFCs to understand the protocol !
RFC 4960 is the latest SCTP PROPOSED STANDARD RFC.
Definitions :
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RFC = Request For Comments
SCTP = Stream Control Transmission Protocol
...........> Extended by RFC
--------> Obsoleted by RFC
'PROPOSED STANDARD' RFCs CHART
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| .....> 6526 (IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Per SCTP Stream - Mar 2012)
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| .....> 6525 (SCTP Stream Reconfiguration - Feb 2012)
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| .....> 6096 (SCTP chunk flags registration - Jan 2011)
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| .....> 6083 (Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) for SCTP)
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| .....> 5811 (SCTP-Based Transport Mapping Layer (TML) for Forwarding
| . and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Protocol - Mar 2010)
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| .....> 5043 (SCTP Direct Data Placement (DDP) Adaptation - Oct 2007)
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| .....> 5061 (SCTP Dynamic Address Reconfiguration - Sep 2007)
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4960 (SCTP - Sep 2007)
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| .....> 4895 (Authenticated Chunks for the SCTP - Aug 2007)
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| .....> 4820 (Padding Chunk and Parameter for the SCTP - Mar 2007)
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| .....> 4168 (SCTP as Transport for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
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| .....> 3873 (SCTP Management Information Base (MIB) - Sep 2004)
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| .....> 3758 (SCTP Partial Reliability Extension - May 2004)
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| .....> 3554 (On the Use of SCTP with IPsec - July 2003)
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2960 (SCTP - Oct 2000)
[Note : RFC 3309 (SCTP Checksum change - Sep 2002) updates RFC 2960, is not showed in the above chart as it is Obsoleted by RFC 4960. ]
INFORMATIONAL RFCs
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6458 (Sockets API Extensions for the SCTP - Dec 2011)
5062 (Security Attacks Found Against SCTP and Current Countermeasures - Sep 2007)
4460 (SCTP Specification Errata and Issues - Apr 2006)
4166 (Telephony Signalling Transport over SCTP Applicability Statement - Feb 2006)
3286 (An Introduction to the SCTP) - May 2002)
EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
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6084 (General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) over SCTP and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) - Jan 2011)
5827 (Early Retransmit for TCP and SCTP - May 2010)
4138 (Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the SCTP - Aug 2005)
3708 (Using TCP Duplicate Selective Acknowledgement (DSACKs) and SCTP Duplicate Transmission Sequence Numbers (TSNs) to Detect Spurious Retransmissions - Feb 2004)
BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
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6335 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry - Aug 2011
