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  ITU-T A.5 justification information for referenced document IETF RFC 2597 (1999) in draft G.9943
1. Clear description of the referenced document:
Name: IETF RFC 2597 (1999)
Title: F. Baker, "Assured Forwarding PHB Group", June 1999.
2. Status of approval:
Proposed Standard
3. Justification for the specific reference:
This document deals with the management of home networks. This reference is needed to manage external technology not specified in ITU-T.
4. Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
Information on IPR issues regarding RFCs is available at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/. Specifically: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=rfc_search&rfc_search=2597
5. Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
generally stable and well-understood; real implementation desirable but not necessary; no known technical flaws; considered immature; may be changed if problems are found or better solutions are identified; deploying implementation of such standards into a disruption-sensitive environment is not recommended
6. The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
generally stable and well-understood; real implementation desirable but not necessary; no known technical flaws; considered immature; may be changed if problems are found or better solutions are identified; deploying implementation of such standards into a disruption-sensitive environment is not recommended
7. Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
RFC 2597 Updated by RFC3260
8. Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
[Blake] Blake, S., Black, D., Carlson, M., Davies, E., Wang, Z. and/
W. Weiss, "An Architecture for Differentiated Services",/
RFC 2475, December 1998./
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[Bradner] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate/
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997./
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[Clark] Clark, D. and Fang, W., Explicit Allocation of Best Effort/
Packet Delivery Service. IEEE/ACM Transactions on/
Networking, Volume 6, Number 4, August 1998, pp. 362-373./
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[Floyd] Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V., Random Early Detection/
gateways for Congestion Avoidance. IEEE/ACM Transactions on/
Networking, Volume 1, Number 4, August 1993, pp. 397-413./
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[Nichols] Nichols, K., Blake, S., Baker, F. and D. Black, "Definition/
of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4/
and IPv6 Headers", RFC 2474, December 1998./
9. Qualification of ISOC/IETF:
9.1-9.6     Decisions of ITU Council to admit ISOC to participate in the work of the Sector (June 1995 and June 1996).
9.7     The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) is responsible for ongoing maintenance of the RFCs when the need arises. Comments on RFCs and corresponding changes are accommodated through the existing standardization process.
9.8     Each revision of a given RFC has a different RFC number, so no confusion is possible. All RFCs always remain available on-line. An index of RFCs and their status may be found in the IETF archives at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html.
10. Other (for any supplementary information):
None
Note: This form is based on Recommendation ITU-T A.5