[pilc] BCP 89, RFC 3819 on Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers

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        BCP 89
        RFC 3819

        Title:      Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
        Author(s):  P. Karn, Ed., C. Bormann, G. Fairhurst,
                    D. Grossman, R. Ludwig, J. Mahdavi, G. Montenegro,
                    J. Touch, L. Wood
        Status:     Best Current Practice
        Date:       July 2004
        Mailbox:    karn@qualcomm.com, cabo@tzi.org,
                    gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk, Dan.Grossman@motorola.com,
                    Reiner.Ludwig@ericsson.com,
                    jmahdavi@earthlink.net, gab@sun.com,
                    touch@isi.edu, lwood@cisco.com
        Pages:      60
        Characters: 152174
        SeeAlso:    BCP 89

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-pilc-link-design-15.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3819.txt

This document provides advice to the designers of digital
communication equipment, link-layer protocols, and packet-switched
local networks (collectively referred to as subnetworks), who wish to
support the Internet protocols but may be unfamiliar with the
Internet architecture and the implications of their design choices on
the performance and efficiency of the Internet.

This document is a product of the Performance Implications of Link
Characteristics Working Group of the IETF.

This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the
Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
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