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  ITU-T A.5 justification information for referenced document CM-SP-MULPIv4.0-I08-231211 (2024) in draft J.224 (Rev)
1. Clear description of the referenced document:
Name: CM-SP-MULPIv4.0-I08-231211 (2024)
Title: DOCSIS 4.0 MAC and Upper Layer Protocols Interface Specification
2. Status of approval:
Approved
3. Justification for the specific reference:
main reference in J.224
4. Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
https://www.cablelabs.com/innovations/patents
5. Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
Widely deployed in a lot of DOCSIS 4.0 implementations under CableLabs certification program
6. The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
Published in December 11, 2023, and very stable
7. Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
None
8. Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
2.1 Normative References/
In order to claim compliance with this specification, it is necessary to conform to the following standards and other works as indicated, in addition to the other requirements of this specification. Notwithstanding, intellectual property rights may be required to use or implement such normative references./
[CANN DHCP-Reg]/
CableLabs DHCP Options Registry Specification, CL-SP-CANN-DHCP-Reg-I17-220831, August 31, 2022, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS DEPI]/
DOCSIS Downstream External-PHY Interface, CM-SP-DEPI-I08-100611, June 11, 2010, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS DRFI]/
DOCSIS Downstream Radio Frequency Interface, CM-SP-DRFI-I16-170111, January 11, 2017, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS DSG]/
DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway (DSG) Specification, CM-SP-DSG-I25-170906, September 6, 2017, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS DTI]/
DOCSIS Timing Interface, CM-SP-DTI-I06-150305, March 5, 2015, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS eDOCSIS]/
eDOCSIS Specification, CM-SP-eDOCSIS-I31-220831, August 31, 2022, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS L2VPN]/
DOCSIS Business Services over DOCSIS, Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks, CM-SP-L2VPN-I16-220328, March 28, 2022, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS MULPIv3.0]/
DOCSIS 3.0, MAC and Upper Layer Protocols Interface Specification, CM-SP-MULPIv3.0-C01-171207, December 7, 2017, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS MULPIv3.1]/
DOCSIS 3.1, MAC and Upper Layer Protocols Interface Specification, CM-SP-MULPIv3.1-I24-221019, October 19, 2022, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS OSSIv2.0]/
DOCSIS 2.0, Operations Support System Interface Specification, CM-SP-OSSIv2.0-C01-081104, November 4, 2008, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS OSSIv3.0]/
DOCSIS 3.0, Operations Support System Interface Specification, CM-SP-OSSIv3.0-C01-171207, December 7, 2017, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS PHYv3.0]/
DOCSIS 3.0, Physical Layer Specification, CM-SP-PHYv3.0-C01-171207, December 7, 2017, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS PHYv3.1]/
DOCSIS 3.1, Physical Layer Specification, CM-SP-PHYv3.1-I19-211110, November 10, 2021, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS PHYv4.0]/
DOCSIS 4.0, Physical Layer Specification, CM-SP-PHYv4.0-I06-221019, October 19, 2022, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS R-DEPI]/
DOCSIS Remote Downstream External PHY Interface Specification, CM-SP-R-DEPI-I16-210804, August 4, 2021, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS RFIv1.1]/
DOCSIS 1.1, Radio Frequency Interface Specification, CM-SP-RFIv1.1-C01-050907, September 7, 2005, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS RFIv2.0]/
DOCSIS 2.0, Radio Frequency Interface Specification, CM-SP-RFIv2.0-C02-090422, April 22, 2009, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS R-PHY]/
DOCSIS Remote PHY Specification, CM-SP-R-PHY-I17-220531, May 31, 2022, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS SECv3.0]/
DOCSIS 3.0, Security Specification, CM-SP-SECv3.0-C01-171207, December 7, 2017, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS SECv3.1]/
DOCSIS 3.1, Security Specification, CM-SP-SECv3.1-I10-211110, November 10, 2021, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS SECv4.0]/
DOCSIS 4.0, Security Specification, CM-SP-SECv4.0-I05-221019, October 19, 2022, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[DOCSIS SYNC]/
Synchronization Techniques for DOCSIS Technology Specification, CM-SP-SYNC-I03-220715, July 15, 2022, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[draft-ietf-tsvwg-aqm-dualq-coupled]/
IETF Internet Draft draft-ietf-tsvwg-aqm-dualq-coupled-06, K. De Schepper, B. Briscoe (Ed.), O. Bondarenko and I.-J. Tsang, DualQ Coupled AQM for Low Latency, Low Loss and Scalable Throughput (L4S), July 2018 (Work in Progress)./
[draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id]/
IETF Internet Draft draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id-03, K. De Schepper, B. Briscoe (Ed.) and I.-J. Tsang, Identifying Modified Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Semantics for Ultra-Low Queuing Delay (L4S), July 2018 (Work in Progress)./
[IEEE 802.1Q]/
IEEE Std. 802.1Q-2018, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridge Local Area Networks, July 2018./
[IEEE 802.3]/
IEEE Std. 802.3 - 2018, IEEE Standard for Information technology – Telecommunications and information exchange between systems – Local and metropolitan area networks – Specific requirements Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications./
[IEEE 1588-2008]/
IEEE Std. 1588-2008 (Revision of IEEE Std 1588-2002), IEEE Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems, July 24, 2008./
[ISO/IEC 8802-2]/
ISO/IEC 8802-2:1998, Information technology, Telecommunications and information exchange between systems, Local and metropolitan area networks, Specific requirements. Part 2: Logical link control./
[ISO/IEC 8802-3]/
ISO/IEC 8802-3:2000, Information technology, Telecommunications and information exchange between systems, Local and metropolitan area networks, Specific requirements, Part 3: Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) access method and physical layer specifications./
[ISO/IEC 8825-1]/
ISO/IEC 8825-1:2008, Information technology, ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER), Ed. #4./
[ITU-T G.8275.1]/
ITU-T Recommendation G.8275.1 (6/2016), Precision time protocol telecom profile for phase/time synchronization with full timing support from the network./
[ITU-T J.83A]/
Annex A of ITU-T Recommendation J.83 (12/2007), Digital multi-program systems for television, sound and data services for cable distribution./
[ITU-T J.83B]/
Annex B of ITU-T Recommendation J.83 (12/2007), Digital multi-program systems for television, sound and data services for cable distribution./
[ITU-T X.25]/
ITU-T Recommendation X.25 (9/98), Interface between Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) and Data Circuit-terminating Equipment (DCE) for terminals operating in the packet mode and connected to public data networks by dedicated circuit./
[LLX]/
Low Latency Xhaul over DOCSIS Technology Specification, CM-SP-LLX-I02-200623, June 23, 2020, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[PKT-MGCP]/
PacketCable Network-Based Call Signaling Protocol Specification, PKT-SP-EC-MGCP-C01-071129, November 29, 2007, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc./
[RFC 768]/
IETF RFC 768/STD0006, J. Postel, User Datagram Protocol, August 1980./
[RFC 868]/
IETF RFC 868/STD0026, J. Postel, K. Harrenstien, Time Protocol, May 1983./
[RFC 1042]/
IETF RFC 1042, J. Postel, J.K. Reynolds, Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams over IEEE 802 networks, February 1988./
[RFC 1112]/
IETF RFC 1112/STD0005, S.E. Deering, Host extensions for IP multicasting, August 1989./
[RFC 1157]/
IETF RFC 1157, J.D. Case, M. Fedor, M.L. Schoffstall, J. Davin, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), May 1990./
[RFC 1191]/
IETF RFC 1191, J. Mogul, S. Deering, Path MTU Discovery, November 1990./
[RFC 1350]/
IETF RFC 1350/STD0033, K. Sollins, The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2), July 1992./
[RFC 1493]/
IETF RFC 1493, E. Decker, P. Langille, A. Rijsinghani, K. McCloghrie, Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges, July 1993./
[RFC 1700]/
IETF RFC 1700, J Reynolds, J. Postel, Assigned Numbers, October 1994./
[RFC 1812]/
IETF RFC 1812, F. Baker, Ed., Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers, June 1995./
[RFC 1945]/
IETF RFC 1945, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0, May 1996./
[RFC 1981]/
IETF RFC 1981, J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul, Path MTU discovery for IP version 6, August 1996./
[RFC 2104]/
IETF RFC 2104, H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, R. Canetti, HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication, February 1997./
[RFC 2131]/
IETF RFC 2131, R. Droms, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, March 1997./
[RFC 2132]/
IETF RFC 2132, S. Alexander, R. Droms, DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions, March 1997./
[RFC 2236]/
IETF RFC 2236, Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2, November 1997./
[RFC 2309]/
IETF RFC 2309, Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet, April 1998./
[RFC 2348]/
IETF RFC 2348, G. Malkin, A. Harkin, TFTP Blocksize Option, May 1998./
[RFC 2460]/
IETF RFC 2460, S. Deering, R. Hinden, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6), Specification, December 1998./
[RFC 2461]/
IETF RFC 2461, T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson, Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6), December 1998./
[RFC 2462]/
IETF RFC 2462, S. Thomson, T. Narten, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, December 1998./
[RFC 2464]/
IETF RFC 2464, N, Crawford, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks, December 1998./
[RFC 2474]/
IETF RFC 2474, K. Nichols, S. Blake, F. Baker, D. Black, Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers, December 1998./
[RFC 2616]/
IETF RFC 2616, R. Fielding, et al., Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, June 1999./
[RFC 2669]/
IETF RFC 2669, M. St. Johns, Ed, DOCSIS Cable Device MIB Cable Device Management Information Base for DOCSIS compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems, August 1999./
[RFC 2710]/
IETF RFC 2710, Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6, MLD v1, October 1999./
[RFC 2786]/
IETF RFC 2786, M. St. Johns, Diffie-Helman USM Key Management Information Base and Textual Convention, March 2000./
[RFC 3032]/
IETF RFC 3032, MPLS Label Stack Encoding. E. Rosen, D. Tappan, G. Fedorkow, Y. Rekhter, D. Farinacci, T. Li, A. Conta, January 2001./
[RFC 3046]/
IETF RFC 3046, M. Patrick, DHCP Relay Agent Information Option, January 2001./
[RFC 3203]/
IETF RFC 3203, Y. T'Joens, C. Hublet, P. DeSchrijver, DHCP reconfigure extension, December 2001./
[RFC 3219]/
IETF RFC 3219, J. Rosenberg, H. Salama, M. Squire, Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP), January 2002./
[RFC 3256]/
IETF RFC 3256, D. Jones, R. Woundy, The DOCSIS (Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications) Device Class DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Relay Agent Information Sub-option, April 2002./
[RFC 3376]/
IETF RFC 3376, B. Cain, S. Deering, I. Kouvelas, B. Fenner, A. Thyagarajan, Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3, October 2002./
[RFC 3495]/
IETF RFC 3495, B. Beser, P. Duffy, Ed., Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Option for CableLabs Client Configuration, March 2003./
[RFC 3513]/
IETF RFC 3513, R. Hinden, S. Deering, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture, April 2003./
[RFC 3633]/
IETF RFC 3633, O. Troan, R. Droms, IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6, December 2003./
[RFC 3810]/
IETF RFC 3810, R. Vida, Ed., L. Costa, Ed. Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6, June 2004./
[RFC 4303]/
IETF RFC 4303, S. Kent, IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP), December 2005./
[RFC 4361]/
IETF RFC 4361, T. Lemon, B. Sommerfeld, Node-specific Client Identifiers for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Version Four (DHCPv4), February 2006./
[RFC 4601]/
IETF RFC 4601, B. Fenner, M. Handley, H. Holbrook, I. Kouvelas, Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised), August 2006./
[RFC 4604]/
IETF RFC 4604, H. Holbrook, B. Cain, B. Haberman, Using IGMPv3 and MLDv2 for Source-Specific Multicast, August 2006./
[RFC 4605]/
IETF RFC 4605, B. Fenner, H. He, B. Haberman, H. Sandick, IGMP/MLD-based Multicast Forwarding ("IGMP/MLD Proxying")" August 2006./
[RFC 4607]/
IETF RFC 4607, H. Holbrook, B. Cain, Source-Specific Multicast for IP, August 2006./
[RFC 4649]/
IETF RFC 4649, B. Volz, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Relay Agent Remote-ID Option, August 2006./
[RFC 4862]/
IETF RFC 4862, S. Thomson, T. Narten, T. Jinmei, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, September 2007./
[RFC 5460]/
IETF RFC 5460, M. Stapp, DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery, February 2009./
[RFC 5462]/
IETF RFC 5462, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic Class" Field. L. Andersson, R. Asati, February 2009./
[RFC 7559]/
IETF RFC 7559, S. Krishnan, D. Anipko, D. Thaler, Packet-Loss Resiliency for Router Solicitations, May 2015./
[RFC 8311]/
IETF RFC 8311, D. Black, Relaxing Restrictions on Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Experimentation, January 2018./
[RFC 8415]/
IETF RFC 8415, T. Mrugalski, M. Siodelski, B. Volz, A. Yourtchenko, M. Richardson, S. Jiang, T. Lemon, T. Winters, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6), November 2018./
[SHA]/
FIPS PUB 180-1, Secure Hash Standard, 1993 May 11./
9. Qualification of Cablelabs:
10. Other (for any supplementary information):
None
Note: This form is based on Recommendation ITU-T A.5