RFC 3246: An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)

This document defines a PHB (per-hop behavior) called Expedited Forwarding (EF). The PHB is a basic building block in the Differentiated Services…

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Outgoing relationships (1 related RFC)

Obsoletes — RFC 2598: An Expedited Forwarding PHB

Incoming relationships (32 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7657: Differentiated Services (Diffserv) and Real-Time Communication
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5559: Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5865: A Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) for Capacity-Admitted Traffic
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5127: Aggregation of Diffserv Service Classes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3564: Requirements for Support of Differentiated Services-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8100: Diffserv-Interconnection Classes and Practice
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8325: Mapping Diffserv to IEEE 802.11
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4031: Service Requirements for Layer 3 Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Networks (PPVPNs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4170: Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP (TCRTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4005: Diameter Network Access Server Application
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5472: IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Applicability
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4216: MPLS Inter-Autonomous System (AS) Traffic Engineering (TE) Requirements
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3714: IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the Internet
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4553: Structure-Agnostic Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over Packet (SAToP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6660: Encoding Three Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) States in the IP Header Using a Single Diffserv Codepoint (DSCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4110: A Framework for Layer 3 Provider-Provisioned Virtual Private Networks (PPVPNs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4689: Terminology for Benchmarking Network-layer Traffic Control Mechanisms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9330: Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9331: The Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5696: Baseline Encoding and Transport of Pre-Congestion Information
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3670: Information Model for Describing Network Device QoS Datapath Mechanisms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8837: Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) Packet Markings for WebRTC QoS
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9332: Dual-Queue Coupled Active Queue Management (AQM) for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5624: Quality of Service Parameters for Usage with Diameter
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6601: Generic Connection Admission Control (GCAC) Algorithm Specification for IP/MPLS Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9622: An Abstract Application Programming Interface (API) for Transport Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4923: Quality of Service (QoS) Signaling in a Nested Virtual Private Network
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7155: Diameter Network Access Server Application
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7823: Performance-Based Path Selection for Explicitly Routed Label Switched Paths (LSPs) Using TE Metric Extensions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9956: A Non-Queue-Building Per-Hop Behavior (NQB PHB) for Differentiated Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3754: IP Multicast in Differentiated Services (DS) Networks