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Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol
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Network Working Group D. Perkins
Request for Comments: 1547 Carnegie Mellon University
Category: Informational December 1993
Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This document discusses the evaluation criteria for an Internet
Standard Data Link Layer protocol to be used with point-to-point
links. Although many industry standard protocols and ad hoc
protocols already exist for the data link layer, none are both
complete and sufficiently versatile to be accepted as an Internet
Standard. In preparation to designing such a protocol, the features
necessary to qualify a point-to-point protocol as an Internet
Standard are discussed in detail. An analysis of the strengths and
weaknesses of several existing protocols on the basis of these
requirements demonstrates the failure of each to address key issues.
Historical Note: This was the design requirements document dated
June 1989, which was followed for RFC-1134 through the present.
It is now published for completeness and future guidance.
Perkins