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  ITU-T A.5 justification information for referenced document MEF 10.4 in draft G.8013/Y.1731
1. Clear description of the referenced document:
Name: MEF 10.4
Title: MEF Standard 10.4 Subscriber Ethernet Service Attributes MEF 10.4 describes the Service Attributes for Subscriber Ethernet Services provided to an Ethernet Subscriber by an Ethernet Service Provider. The Service Attributes describe behaviors observable at an Ethernet User Network Interface and from Ethernet User Network Interface to Ethernet User Network Interface. In addition, a framework for defining specific instances of Subscriber Ethernet Services is described.
2. Status of approval:
Approved in 2018
3. Justification for the specific reference:
ITU-T G.8013/Y.1731 covers the performance parameters based on MEF 10.4.
4. Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
No known issues.
5. Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
Commonly referenced all over the world for Carrier Ethernet Services.
6. The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
Commonly referenced all over the world for Carrier Ethernet Services.
7. Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
8. Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
[1] IEEE Std 1588 – 2008, IEEE Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems, 24 July 2008./
[2] IEEE Std 802.1AX – 2008, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks – Link Aggregation, November 2008./
[3] IEEE Std 802.1AX – 2014, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks – Link Aggregation, December 2014./
[4] IEEE Std 802.1Q – 2018, (Revision of IEEE Std 802.1Q-2014) - IEEE Standard for Lo-cal and metropolitan area networks--Bridges and Bridged Networks, May 2018./
[5] IEEE Std 802.3 – 2015, IEEE Standard for Ethernet, 3 September 2015./
[6] IEEE Std 802.3bp – 2016, IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 4: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 1 Gb/s Operation over a Single Twist-ed-Pair Copper Cable, 30 June 2016./
[7] IEEE Std 802.3bq – 2016, IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 3: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for 25 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s Operation, Types 25GBASE-T and 40GBASE-T, 30 June 2016./
[8] IEEE Std 802.3bs – 2017, IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 10: Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers, and Management Parameters for 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Operation, 12 December 2017./
[9] IEEE Std 802.3bu – 2016, IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 8: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for Power over Data Lines (PoDL) of Single Balanced Twisted-Pair Ethernet, 7 December 2016./
[10] IEEE Std 802.3bv – 2017, IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 9: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 1000 Mb/s Operation Over Plastic Op-tical Fiber, 14 February 2017./
[11] IEEE Std 802.3by – 2016, IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 2: Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers, and Management Parameters for 25 Gb/s Op-eration, 30 June 2016./
[12] IEEE Std 802.3bz – 2016, IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 7: Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers, and Management Parameters for 2.5 Gb/s and 5 Gb/s Operation, Types 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T, 22 September 2016./
[13] IEEE Std 802.3cc – 2017, IEEE Standard for Ethernet Amendment 11: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for Serial 25 Gb/s Ethernet Operation over Single-Mode Fiber, 15 January 2018./
[14] IETF RFC 2119, Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, March 1997./
[15] IETF RFC 2579, Textual Conventions for SMIv2, April 1999./
[16] IETF RFC 3260, New Terminology and Clarification for Diffserv, April 2002./
[17] IETF RFC 8174, Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words, May 2017./
[18] ITU-T Recommendation G.8262/Y.1362, Timing characteristics of synchronous Ether-net equipment slave clock, January 2015./
[19] ITU-T Recommendation G.8264/Y.1364, Distribution of timing information through packet networks, May 2014./
[20] ITU-T Recommendation Y.1563, Ethernet frame transfer and availability performance, 2009./
[21] ITU-T Recommendation Y.1564, Ethernet service activation test methodology, Febru-ary 2016./
[22] MEF 6.2, Ethernet Services Definitions - Phase 3, August 2014./
[23] MEF 10.2, Ethernet Services Attributes Phase 2, October 2009./
[24] MEF 10.3, Ethernet Services Attributes Phase 3, October 2013./
[25] MEF 10.3.1, Composite Performance Metric (CPM) Amendment to MEF 10.3, Febru-ary 2015./
[26] MEF 10.3.2, Amendment to MEF 10.3 - UNI Resiliency Enhancement, October 2015./
[27] MEF 12.2, Carrier Ethernet Network Architecture Framework Part 2: Ethernet Ser-vices Layer, May 2014./
[28] MEF 17, Service OAM Framework and Requirements – Phase 1, April 2007./
[29] MEF 23.2, Carrier Ethernet Class of Service – Phase 3, August 2016./
[30] MEF 23.2.1, Models for Bandwidth Profiles with Token Sharing Amendment to MEF 23.2, January 2017./
[31] MEF 26.2, External Network Network Interfaces (ENNI) and Operator Service Attrib-utes, August 2016./
[32] MEF 30.1, Service OAM Fault Management Implementation Agreement: Phase 2, April 2013./
[33] MEF 30.1.1, Amendment to MEF 30.1 – Correction to Requirement, April 2014./
[34] MEF 35.1, Service OAM Performance Monitoring Implementation Agreement, May 2015./
[35] MEF 41, Generic Token Bucket Algorithm, October 2013./
[36] MEF 45.1, Layer 2 Control Protocols in Ethernet Services, December 2018.
9. Qualification of MEF:
The MEF was recognized under the provisions of ITU-T Recommendation A.5 on 24 September 2002. Qualifying information is on file with TSB.
9.5     The IPR policy of the MEF may be found in Article 10 of the MEF Bylaws which are available on the MEF public WEB site metroethernetforum.org.
9.6     All MEF Technical Specifications, Implementation Agreements, and Test Specifications are approved by an electronic letter ballot of all MEF members. For a MEF document to pass an electronic letter ballot at least a quorum of members (defined by the MEF bylaws as 1/3 of the MEF membership) must vote Yes or No. In addition, of the Yes plus No votes at least 75% of the votes must be Yes.
9.7     All published MEF documents are available for download free of charge in PDF or WORD format from the MEF public WEB site www.metroethernetforum.org .
9.8     Each revision of a given MEF document has a different MEF number.
10. Other (for any supplementary information):
None
Note: This form is based on Recommendation ITU-T A.5