RFC - 3246

An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3246.txt
Authors:	B. Davie [Cisco Systems, Inc.], A. Charny [Cisco Systems, Inc.], J.C.R. Bennett [Motorola], K. Benson [Tellabs], J.Y. Le Boudec [EPFL], W. Courtney [TRW], S. Davari [PMC-Sierra], V. Firoiu [Nortel Networks], D. Stiliadis [Lucent Technologies]
Date:	March 2002
Category:	Proposed Standard

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Obsoletes:
RFC-2598	An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Obsoleted by RFC-3246prop)

Referred by:	29 RFC
Refers to:	7 RFC

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Status

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

This document defines a PHB (per-hop behavior) called Expedited Forwarding (EF). The PHB is a basic building block in the Differentiated Services architecture. EF is intended to provide a building block for low delay, low jitter and low loss services by ensuring that the EF aggregate is served at a certain configured rate. This document obsoletes RFC 2598(-> 3246^prop).

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