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5.16 TPMR conformance............................................................................................................... 54
5.16.1 TPMR options ....................................................................................................... 54
5.17 T-component conformance ....................................................................................................54
5.17.1 T-component options ............................................................................................ 54
5.18 End station requirements for MMRP, MVRP, and MSRP .................................................... 54
5.18.1 MMRP requirements and options ......................................................................... 55
5.18.2 MVRP requirements and options .......................................................................... 55
5.18.3 MSRP requirements and options .......................................................................... 56
5.19 VLAN-aware end station requirements for CFM .................................................................. 56
5.20 End station requirements—FQTSS........................................................................................ 57
5.21 End station requirements for congestion notification ........................................................... 57
5.22 MAC-specific bridging methods............................................................................................ 58
5.23 EVB Bridge requirements...................................................................................................... 58
5.24 EVB station requirements...................................................................................................... 59
5.24.1 Edge relay (ER) requirements ............................................................................... 59
6. Support of the MAC Service.............................................................................................................. 61
6.1 Basic architectural concepts and terms.................................................................................. 62
6.2 Provision of the MAC Service............................................................................................... 62
6.2.1 Point-to-point, multipoint-to-multipoint, and rooted-multipoint connectivity ..... 63
6.3 Support of the MAC Service..................................................................................................63
6.4 Preservation of the MAC Service .......................................................................................... 64
6.5 Quality of service (QoS) maintenance................................................................................... 64
6.5.1 Service availability ................................................................................................ 64
6.5.2 Frame loss ............................................................................................................. 65
6.5.3 Frame misordering ................................................................................................ 65
6.5.4 Frame duplication ................................................................................................. 66
6.5.5 Transit delay .......................................................................................................... 67
6.5.6 Frame lifetime ....................................................................................................... 68
6.5.7 Undetected frame error rate .................................................................................. 68
6.5.8 Maximum Service Data Unit Size ........................................................................ 68
6.5.9 Priority .................................................................................................................. 68
6.5.10 Throughput ............................................................................................................ 69
6.6 Internal Sublayer Service (ISS) .............................................................................................70
6.6.1 Control primitives and parameters ........................................................................ 70
6.7 Support of the ISS by specific MAC procedures................................................................... 70
6.7.1 Support of the ISS by IEEE Std 802.3 (Ethernet) ................................................. 70
6.8 Enhanced Internal Sublayer Service (EISS) .......................................................................... 70
6.8.1 Service primitives ................................................................................................. 71
6.8.2 Status parameters .................................................................................................. 72
6.8.3 Point-to-point parameters ...................................................................................... 72
6.8.4 Control primitives and parameters ........................................................................ 72
6.9 Support of the EISS ............................................................................................................... 72
6.9.1 Data indications .................................................................................................... 74
6.9.2 Data requests ......................................................................................................... 75
6.9.3 Priority Code Point encoding ................................................................................ 75
6.9.4 Regenerating priority ............................................................................................ 77
6.10 Support of the ISS/EISS by PIPs ........................................................................................... 78
6.10.1 Data indications .................................................................................................... 80
6.10.2 Data requests ......................................................................................................... 81
6.10.3 Priority Code Point encoding ................................................................................ 81
6.11 Support of the EISS by CBPs ................................................................................................82
6.11.1 Data indications .................................................................................................... 83