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Clear description of the referenced document:
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Name:
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MEF 45
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Title:
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Multi-CEN L2CP
This document specifies the service attributes and requirements for handling Layer 2
Control Protocol (L2CP) Frames in a Carrier Ethernet Network.
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Status of approval:
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Approved in 2014
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Justification for the specific reference:
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The Ethernet Layer 2 Control Protocol (L2CP) definitions in MEF 45 supplement MEF 6.2 to form the basis of this Recommendation.
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Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
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No known issues.
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Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
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Commonly referenced all over the world for metro Ethernet services.
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The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
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Commonly referenced all over the world for metro Ethernet services.
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Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
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MEF 45 defeins L2CP behaviour for MEF 10.2 and MEF 6.3
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Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
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[1] IEEE Std 802.1AB – 2009, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks/
– Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery, 17 September/
2009./
[2] IEEE Std 802.1AX – 2008, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks/
– Link Aggregation, 3 November 2008./
[3] IEEE Std 802.1AXbk – 2012, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area/
networks – Link Aggregation Amendment 1: Protocol Addressing, 25 May 2012./
[4] IEEE Std 802.1D – 2004, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area networks—/
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges, 9 June 2004./
[5] IEEE Std 802.1Q – 2011, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area networks—/
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridge Local Area/
Networks, 7 May 2003./
[6] IEEE Std 802.1Qbe – 2011, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area networks—/
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridge Local Area/
Networks Amendment 15: Multiple I-SID Registration Protocol, 16 September/
2011./
[7] IEEE Std 802.1Qbb – 2011, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area networks—/
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridge Local Area/
Networks Amendment 17: Priority-based Flow Control, 30 September 2011./
[8] IEEE Std 802.1aq – 2012, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area networks—/
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridge Local Area/
Networks Amendment 20: Shortest Path Bridging, 29 June 2012./
[9] IEEE Std 802.1Qbg – 2012, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area networks—/
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridge Local Area/
Networks Amendment 21: Edge Virtual Bridging, 5 July 2012./
[10] IEEE Std 802.1BR-2012, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area/
networks – Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks – Bridge Port Extension, 16 July/
2012./
[11] IEEE Std 802.1X – 2010, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area/
networks—Port Based Network Access Control, 6 February 2010./
[12] IEEE Std 802.3 – 2012, IEEE Standard for Ethernet, 28 December 2012./
(Normative)/
[13] IEEE Std 1588TM-2008. IEEE Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization/
Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems - 27 March/
2008, Annex F/
[14] International Telecommunication Union, Recommendation G.8264-2008./
Distribution of Timing Through Packet Networks - October 10, 2008./
[15] Internet Engineering Task Force RFC 2119. Key words for use in RFCs to/
Indicate Requirement Levels, March 1997./
[16] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 4, Metro Ethernet Network Architecture/
Framework: Part 1 – Generic Framework, May 2004./
[17] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 6.1, Ethernet Services Definitions - Phase 2,/
April 2008./
[18] Metro Ethernet Forum, MEF 6.1.1, Layer 2 Control Protocol Handling/
Amendment to MEF 6.1, January 2012./
[19] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 10.3, Ethernet Services Attributes Phase 3,/
October 2013./
[20] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 16, Ethernet Local Management Interface (ELMI),/
January 2006./
[21] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 20, User Network Interface (UNI) Type 2/
Implementation Agreement, July 2008./
[22] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 22.1, Mobile Backhaul Phase 2, January/
2012./
[23] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 23.1, Carrier Ethernet Class of Service Phase/
2, January 2012./
[24] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 26.1, External Network Network Interface/
(ENNI) –Phase 2, January 2012./
[25] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 28, External Network Network Interface/
(ENNI) Support for UNI Tunnel Access and Virtual UNI, October 2010./
[26] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 30, Service OAM Fault Management Implementation/
Agreement, January 2011./
[27] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 33, Ethernet Access Services Definition, January/
2012./
[28] Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 35, Service OAM Performance Monitoring/
Implementation Agreement, April 2012.
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9.
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Qualification of
MEF:
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The MEF was recognized under the provisions of ITU-T Recommendation A.5 on 24 September 2002. Qualifying information is on file with TSB.
9.5 The IPR policy of the MEF may be found in Article 10 of the MEF Bylaws which are available on the MEF public WEB site metroethernetforum.org.
9.6 All MEF Technical Specifications, Implementation Agreements, and Test Specifications are approved by an electronic letter ballot of all MEF members. For a MEF document to pass an electronic letter ballot at least a quorum of members (defined by the MEF bylaws as 1/3 of the MEF membership) must vote Yes or No. In addition, of the Yes plus No votes at least 75% of the votes must be Yes.
9.7 All published MEF documents are available for download free of charge in PDF or WORD format from the MEF public WEB site www.metroethernetforum.org .
9.8 Each revision of a given MEF document has a different MEF number.
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Other (for any supplementary information):
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None
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