Amendment 6 to Recommendation ITU-T G.996.2 (2009) updates Annexes A, E, and F, defining the following new functionalities: 1)SELT PMD management 2)MELT PMD management 3)Report of negative capacitance values 4)Pair identification tone with timeout 5)Report of reliability indicator for measurements 6)Report of time stamp 7)Parallelism and polarity of far-end signature detection 8)CPE identification capacitive.