13.4. The DSL Forum Framework for Autoconfiguration

DSL Forum TR-46 [10] describes a progressive configuration architecture for DSL CPE. Figure 13.3, adapted from TR-46, provides an overview of the Forum's framework for autoconfiguration.

Figure 13.3. Autoconfiguration framework from DSL Forum TR-046.

As with the scheme illustrated in Figure 13.2, the DSL Forum architecture assumes that the autoconfiguration progresses both up the stack and into the network. The Forum's autoconfiguration scheme then divides the space of CPE into three categories:

  1. Autoconfiguration of Basic IP Services. Basic IP services are those IP Services that a user would ...

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