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Clear description of the referenced document:
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Name:
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IEEE 802.1aq-2012
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Title:
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IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks— Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks—Amendment 20: Shortest Path Bridging
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Status of approval:
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Normative
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Justification for the specific reference:
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Typically transport Ethernet Equipment does not implement a control plane as each node is directly provisioned using the management plane.
However, it may be beneficial to implement the more advanced SPB control plane defined in [IEEE 802.1aq].
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Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
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Information on IEEE standards can be found at http://standards.ieee.org/db/patents/index.html
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Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
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The document is in existence. It is very widely used technology.
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The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
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It is an approved IEEE standard amendment. The 802.1Q-2011 revision was published on August 2011. This amendment was approved on June 2012.
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Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
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This specification is related to the 802.1Q suite of standards developed by the IEEE.
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Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
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The additional normative references (IEEE Std 802.1aq-2009 is an Amendment to IEEE Std 802.1Q-2011 which contains the references) are:/
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IETF RFC 5120 (Feb. 2008) M-ISIS: Multi Topology (MT) Routing in Intermediate System to Intermediate Systems (IS-ISs)./
IETF RFC 5303 (Oct. 2008), Three-Way Handshake for IS-IS Point-to-Point Adjacencies./
IETF RFC 5305 (Oct. 2008), IS-IS Extensions for Traffic Engineering./
IETF RFC 6165 (Apr. 2011), Extensions to IS-IS for Layer-2 Systems./
ISO/IEC 9577:1999, Information technology — Protocol identification in the network layer.3/
ISO/IEC 10589:2002, Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Intermediate System to Intermediate System intra-domain routeing information exchange protocol for use in conjunction with the protocol for providing the connectionless-mode network service./
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Qualification of
IEEE:
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The IEEE was recognized under the provisions of ITU-T Recommendation A.5 on 1 November 1999. Qualifying information is on file with TSB.
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Other (for any supplementary information):
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None
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