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The present document specifies requirements on MSs supporting Downlink Advanced Receiver Performance (DARP) that are independent of release. TSG GERAN has agreed that the standardisation of DARP be independent of a release. However, in order to implement an MS that conforms to a particular release but supports DARP, which is specified in a later release, it is necessary to specify some extra requirements.

DARP is contained in the Release 6 specifications. In order to implement an MS conforming to Release 99 but supporting DARP, it is necessary for the MS to additionally conform to some parts of the Release 6 specifications, such as the radio frequency requirements for DARP and some signalling extensions relating to the MS Classmark and radio access capabilities.