A Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) for Capacity-Admitted Traffic
RFC 5865

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                          F. Baker
Request for Comments: 5865                                       J. Polk
Updates: 4542, 4594                                        Cisco Systems
Category: Standards Track                                       M. Dolly
ISSN: 2070-1721                                                AT&T Labs
                                                                May 2010

              A Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
                     for Capacity-Admitted Traffic

Abstract

   This document requests one Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
   from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for a class of
   real-time traffic.  This traffic class conforms to the Expedited
   Forwarding Per-Hop Behavior.  This traffic is also admitted by the
   network using a Call Admission Control (CAC) procedure involving
   authentication, authorization, and capacity admission.  This differs
   from a real-time traffic class that conforms to the Expedited
   Forwarding Per-Hop Behavior but is not subject to capacity admission
   or subject to very coarse capacity admission.

Status of This Memo

   This is an Internet Standards Track document.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
   Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.1.  Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     1.2.  Problem   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   2.  Candidate Implementations of the Admitted Telephony
       Service Class   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     2.1.  Potential implementations of EF in this model . . . . . .  7
     2.2.  Capacity admission control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     2.3.  Recommendations on implementation of an Admitted
           Telephony Service Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   3.  Summary: changes from RFC 4594  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   6.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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1.  Introduction

   This document requests one Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
   from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for a class of