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Clear description of the referenced document:
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Name:
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MEF 45.1
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Title:
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MEF Standard 45.1 Layer 2 Control Protocols in Ethernet Services
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 2018
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Justification for the specific reference:
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G.8021 specifies its filter process by reference in part to MEF 45.1.
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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 45.1 defines L2CP behavior for MEF 10.4 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 net-works – Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery, 17 September 2009./
[2] IEEE Std 802.1AX – 2014, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area net-works – Link Aggregation, 10 December 2014./
[3] IEEE Std 802.1D – 2004, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area net-works—Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges, 9 June 2004./
[4] IEEE Std 802.1Q – 2014, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area net-works—Bridges and Bridged Networks, 3 November 2014./
[5] IEEE Std 802.1BR-2012, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area net-works – Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks – Bridge Port Extension, 16 July 2012./
[6] IEEE Std 802.1X – 2010, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area net-works—Port Based Network Access Control, 6 February 2010./
[7] IEEE Std 802.3 – 2018, IEEE Standard for Ethernet, 7 May 2018./
[8] IEEE Std 1588TM-2008, IEEE Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems - 27 March 2008, An-nex F./
[9] IETF RFC 2119, Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, March 1997./
[10] IETF RFC 8174, Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words, May 2017./
[11] ITU-T G.8264-2017, Distribution of Timing Information Through Packet Net-works – August 2017./
[12] MEF 6.2, Ethernet Services Definitions - Phase 3, August 2014./
[13] MEF 10.4, Subscriber Ethernet Service Attributes, December 2018./
[14] MEF 12.2, Carrier Ethernet Network Architecture Framework Part 2: Ethernet Services Layer, May 2014./
[15] MEF 16, Ethernet Local Management Interface (E-LMI), January 2006./
[16] MEF 26.2, External Network Network Interface (ENNI) and Operator Service Attributes, August 2016./
[17] MEF 43, Virtual NID (vNID) Functionality for E-Access Services, April 2014./
[18] MEF 51.1, Operator Ethernet Service Definitions, December 2018./
[19] MEF 62, Managed Access E-Line Service Definition, May 2018.
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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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