The term used in RFC2960 to describe the logical sender or receiver of
SCTP (Stream Control
Transmission Protocol) packets. An SCTP
endpoint is represented to its peers as a combination of a set of eligible
destination transport addresses to which SCTP packets can be sent and a set of
eligible source transport addresses from which SCTP packets can be received. A
transport address used by an SCTP endpoint is unique to an SCTP endpoint.
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RFC 2960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol This document describes the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). SCTP is designed to transport PSTN signaling messages over IP networks, but is capable of broader applications.
RFC 3436: TLS over SCTP This document describes the usage of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, as defined in [RFC2246], over the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), as defined in [RFC2960] and [RFC3309].
