3GPP 21.900 v20.0.0 — the document's own text
4.9A "Withdrawing" of functionality
Taught in 3. What a Release is, and what freezing one costs (How standards actually get made, in depth).
A TSG may decide to withdraw functionality.
Before withdrawing functionality, the TSG shall:
- raise Change Requests to eliminate any references made to this functionality from any 3GPP specifications; and
- move text within specifications which were created for the functionality, that is applicable to other functionality as well, to other appropriate specifications.