User Datagram Protocol

principal protocol used for transmission of datagrams across an IP network
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User Datagram Protocol

Summary

User Datagram Protocol is a computer network protocol[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of computer_network_protocol entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (965 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • User Datagram Protocol's instance of is recorded as computer network protocol[3].
  • User Datagram Protocol's instance of is recorded as internet standard[4].
  • User Datagram Protocol's GND ID is recorded as 4728148-0[5].
  • User Datagram Protocol's part of is recorded as Internet protocol suite[6].
  • User Datagram Protocol's Commons category is recorded as User Datagram Protocol[7].
  • User Datagram Protocol's publication date is recorded as +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • User Datagram Protocol's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07vkj[9].
  • User Datagram Protocol's RfC ID is recorded as 768[10].
  • User Datagram Protocol's PSH ID is recorded as 12378[11].
  • User Datagram Protocol's described by source is recorded as RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol[12].
  • User Datagram Protocol's described by source is recorded as Cloudflare[13].
  • User Datagram Protocol's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/udp[14].
  • User Datagram Protocol's has characteristic is recorded as connectionless communication[15].
  • User Datagram Protocol's uses is recorded as IPv4[16].
  • User Datagram Protocol's uses is recorded as IPv6[17].
  • User Datagram Protocol's Quora topic ID is recorded as User-Datagram-Protocol[18].
  • User Datagram Protocol's ITU/ISO/IEC object ID is recorded as 1.3.6.1.2.1.7[19].
  • User Datagram Protocol's Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme is recorded as udp[20].
  • User Datagram Protocol's OSI Model layer location is recorded as transport layer[21].
  • User Datagram Protocol's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 20636137[22].
  • User Datagram Protocol's Mozilla Developer Network article is recorded as Glossary/UDP[23].
  • User Datagram Protocol's GitHub topic is recorded as udp[24].
  • User Datagram Protocol's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C20636137[25].
  • User Datagram Protocol's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/user-datagram-protocol[26].
  • User Datagram Protocol's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 148011[27].

Body

Publication

User Datagram Protocol's publication date is recorded as +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]. Its part of is recorded as Internet protocol suite[6].

Why It Matters

User Datagram Protocol ranks in the top 4% of computer_network_protocol entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (965 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . rfc-editor.org. rfc-editor.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . tools.ietf.org. tools.ietf.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . RFC 1213: Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . iana.org. iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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