RFC 3246 (rfc3246) - Page 1 of 16
An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)
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Network Working Group B. Davie
Request for Comments: 3246 A. Charny
Obsoletes: 2598 Cisco Systems, Inc.
Category: Standards Track 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
March 2002
An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)
Status of this Memo
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.
Davie, et. al. Standards Track