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  ITU-T A.5 justification information for referenced document IETF RFC 7348 (2014) in draft Q.BNG-P4switch
1. Clear description of the referenced document:
Name: IETF RFC 7348 (2014)
Title: Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN): A Framework for Overlaying Virtualized Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks
2. Status of approval:
Informational
3. Justification for the specific reference:
The VxLAN tunnel protocol should be supported in this draft recommendation . It’s format should keep align with the specification in RFC 7348.
4. Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
Information on IPR issues regarding RFCs is available at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/
5. Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
It is a mature document.
6. The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
RFC 7348 has a status of INFORMATIONAL and was published in 2014. Since then it has been widely implemented and became one of the major components of Internet
7. Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
The following file is maintained by ISOC/IETF and has all the requested information: http://www.ietf.org/iesg/1rfc_index.txt
8. Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
Normative References:/
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997./
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Informative References:/
[802.1aq] IEEE, "Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks -- Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks -- Amendment 20: Shortest Path Bridging", IEEE P802.1aq-2012, 2012./
[802.1D] IEEE, "Draft Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks/ Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges", IEEE P802.1D-2004, 2004./
[802.1X] IEEE, "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks -- Port-Based Network Acces Control", IEEE Std 802.1X-2010, February 2010./
[RFC1191] Mogul, J. and S. Deering, "Path MTU discovery", RFC 1191, November 1990./
[RFC1981] McCann, J., Deering, S., and J. Mogul, "Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6", RFC 1981, August 1996./
[RFC4541] Christensen, M., Kimball, K., and F. Solensky, "Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches", RFC 4541, May 2006./
[RFC4601] Fenner, B., Handley, M., Holbrook, H., and I. Kouvelas, "Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)", RFC 4601, August 2006./
[RFC5015] Handley, M., Kouvelas, I., Speakman, T., and L. Vicisano, "Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-PIM)", RFC 5015, October 2007./
[RFC6325] Perlman, R., Eastlake 3rd, D., Dutt, D., Gai, S., and A. Ghanwani, "Routing Bridges (RBridges): Base Protocol Specification", RFC 6325, July 2011./
[RFC6335] Cotton, M., Eggert, L., Touch, J., Westerlund, M., and S. Cheshire, "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry", BCP 165, RFC 6335, August 2011.
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