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This article lists [[communication protocol]]s that are designed for [[file transfer]] over a [[telecommunications network]].

This article lists [[communication protocol]]sprotocols that are designed for [[file transfer]] over a [[telecommunications network]].

Protocols for [[shared resource|shared]] [[file system]]s—such as [[9P (protocol)|9P]] and the [[Network File System]]—are beyond the scope of this article, as are [[file synchronization]] protocols.

Protocols for [[shared resource|shared]] [[file system]]s—such such as [[9P (protocol)|9P]] and the [[Network File System]]—are are beyond the scope of this article, as are [[file synchronization]] protocols.

==Protocols for packet-switched networks==

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Fast and Secure Protocol]] || [[FASP]] || [[Ying Xu]], Michelle Munson, Serban Simu || 2007 || {{n/a}} || {{nonpartisan|No}} || <ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=20090063698 |status=patent |title=Method and system for aggregate bandwith control [sic] |pubdate= |gdate=30 May 2017 |fdate=5 March 2009 |pridate=4 September 2007 |inventor=[[Ying Xu]], Michelle Christine Munson, Serban Simu |assign1=Aspera, Inc. |assign2=[[IBM]] |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US20090063698}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport]] || [[FLUTE]] || [[Internet Society]] || 2004 || {{n/a}} || {{partial|{{IETF RFC|6726}}}} || <ref>{{cite IETF |title=FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport |rfc=3926 |last=Paila |first=Toni |last2=Luby |first2=Michael |last3=Lehtonen |first3=Rami |last4=Roca |first4=Vincent |last5=Walsh |first5=Rod |date=October 2004 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |accessdate=2018-03-07}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[File Service Protocol]] || [[File Service Protocol|FSP]] || Wen-King Su || 1991 || {{n/a}} || {{nonpartisan|No}} || <ref>{{cite book |title=The Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary |edition=2nd |editor-last=Petersen |editor-first=Julie K. |publisher=CRC Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-4200-4067-8 |via=Google Books |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YH_LBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA357 |chapter=File Service Protocol |page=357 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fsp-faq/part2/ |title=File Service Protocol (FSP) Frequently Asked Questions [Part 2/2] |date=21 July 1995 |at=Section: "Who writes and maintains FSP software?" |website=FAQs.org |access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | Multicast Dissemination Protocol || MDP || || || || {{nonpartisan|No}} ||

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Multicast File Transfer Protocol]] || [[Multicast File Transfer Protocol|MFTP]] || C. Kenneth Miller et al. || 1995 || {{n/a}} || {{partial failure|[https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-miller-mftp-spec-03 IETF Draft] {{small|(1998)}}}} || <ref>{{cite patent |country=U S |number=7710961 |status=patent |title=System and method for sending packets over a computer network |pubdate= |gdate=20 December 2011 |fdate=12 August 2010 |pridate=19 January 1995 |inventor=C. Kenneth Miller, Thomas Andresen, Thomas Gardner, Craig Michelson, Kenneth Cates, Marc White, Kary Robertson |assign1=Darby and Mohaine LLC |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US8081629B2/en}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol || NORM || || || || {{ya|text={{IETF RFC|5740}}}} ||

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Odette File Transfer Protocol|Odette File Transfer Protocol 2]] || [[OFTP|OFTP2]] || Organisation for Data Exchange by Tele Transmission in Europe || 2007 || X.25, Internet protocol suite || {{ya|text={{IETF RFC|5024}}}} {{small|(V1.3)}} || <ref name="Friend">{{cite IETF |title=ODETTE File Transfer Protocol 2 |rfc=5024 |last=Friend |first=Ieuan |date=November 2007 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |accessdate=2018-02-22}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Reliable Blast UDP]] || [[RBUDP]] || Eric He et al. || 2002 || {{n/a}} || {{nonpartisan|No}} || <ref name="He">{{cite conference |url=https://www.evl.uic.edu/eric/papers/He-Cluster-02.pdf |title=Reliable Blast UDP: Predictable High Performance Bulk Data Transfer |first=Eric |last=He |first2=Jason |last2=Leigh |first3=Oliver |last3=Yu |first4=Thomas A. |last4=DeFanti |date=September 2002 |conference=IEEE Cluster Computing 2002 |___location=Chicago |book-title=Proceedings: IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC (January 2002) |oclc=5942572037 |issn=1552-5244 |pages=317–24 |access-date=2018-03-02}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Rcp (Unix)|Remote copy]] || [[Rcp (Unix)|rcp]] || {{dunno}} || 1982 || Internet protocol suite || {{nonpartisan|No}} || <ref>{{cite book |title=Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution |last=McKusick |first=Marshall Kirk |author-link=Marshall Kirk McKusick |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-56592-582-3 |chapter=Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable |chapter-url=http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html |publisher=O'Reilly & Associates |at=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781565925823/page/ Section: "4.2BSD"] |title-link=Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution }}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol]] || [[S-HTTP]] || IETF Web Transaction Security Working Group || 1999 || {{n/a}} || {{partial|{{IETF RFC|2660}}}} || <ref>{{cite IETF |title=The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol |rfc=2660 |last=Rescorla |first=Eric |last2=Schiffman |first2=Allan M. |date=August 1999 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |accessdate=2018-03-09}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Simple Asynchronous File Transfer]] || [[Simple Asynchronous File Transfer|SAFT]] || Ulli Horlacher || 1995 || {{n/a}} || {{nonpartisan|No}} || <ref name="fex">{{cite web |url=https://fex.belwue.de/saft/ |title=SAFT / sendfile |last=Horlacher |first=Ulli |website=fex.belwue.de |access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref><ref name="sendfile">{{cite web |url=http://manpages.org/sendfile |title=sendfile(1) |last=Horlacher |first=Ulli |website=manpages.org |access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Simple File Transfer Protocol]] || [[Simple File Transfer Protocol|SFTP]] || Mark K. Lottor || 1984 || {{n/a}} || {{ya|text={{IETF RFC|913}}}} || <ref>Lottor (1984), pp. 1, 13</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Tsunami UDP Protocol]] || [[Tsunami UDP Protocol|Tsunami]] || Mark Meiss et al. || 2002 || {{n/a}} || {{nonpartisan|No}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=http://tsunami-udp.sourceforge.net/ |title=Tsunami UDP Protocol |last=Wagner |first=Jan |website=tsunami-udp.sourceforge.net |publisher=Jon Wagner |via=SourceForge}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://anml.iu.edu/research.shtml?prim=lab_research |title=Research |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729055331/http://anml.iu.edu/research.shtml?prim=lab_research |at=Section: "Tsunami" |website=anml.iu.edu |publisher=Pervasive Technology Labs at [[Indiana University]] |archive-date=2010-07-29}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[Tus open protocol for resumable file uploads]] || [[Tus open protocol for resumable file uploads|tus]] || Felix Geisendörfer, Marius Kleidl et al. || 2014 || {{n/a}} || {{nonpartisan|No}} || <ref name="github">{{GitHub|tus/tus-resumable-upload-protocol/blob/master/protocol.md}}</ref><ref name="tusio">{{cite web |url=https://tus.io |title=tus - resumable file uploads}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left" | [[UDP-based Data Transfer Protocol]] || [[UDP-based Data Transfer Protocol|UDT]] || Yunhong Gu || 2004 || {{n/a}} || {{nonpartisan|No}} ||