User Datagram Protocol

English

Proper noun

the User Datagram Protocol

1. (Internet) A communications protocol that has no error recovery features, and is mostly used to stream material over the Internet.

   Synonym: UDP

   • 1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768:

     This User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is defined to make available a datagram mode of packet-switched computer communication in the environment of an interconnected set of computer networks.