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Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

S. Hu
D. Eastlake
F. Qin
T. Chua
D. Huang

Stream:

INDEPENDENT

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8772

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Abstract

A Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) in a fixed wireline access network is an Ethernet-centric IP edge router and the aggregation point for subscriber traffic. Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) for such a BNG improves flexibility and scalability but requires various communication between the User Plane (UP) and the Control Plane (CP). China Mobile, Huawei Technologies, and ZTE have developed a simple CUPS control channel protocol to support such communication: the Simple Control and User Plane Separation Protocol (S-CUSP). S-CUSP is defined in this document.

This document is not an IETF standard and does not have IETF consensus. S-CUSP is presented here to make its specification conveniently available to the Internet community to enable diagnosis and interoperability.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.