I-D Action:draft-ietf-forces-protocol-22.txt

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This draft is a work item of the Forwarding and Control Element Separation Working Group of the IETF.

	Title           : ForCES Protocol Specification
	Author(s)       : L. Dong, et al.
	Filename        : draft-ietf-forces-protocol-22.txt
	Pages           : 127
	Date            : 2009-03-02

This document specifies the Forwarding and Control Element Separation
(ForCES) protocol.  ForCES protocol is used for communications
between Control Elements(CEs) and Forwarding Elements (FEs) in a
ForCES Network Element (ForCES NE).  This specification is intended
to meet the ForCES protocol requirements defined in RFC3654.  Besides
the ForCES protocol, this specification also defines the requirements
for the Transport Mapping Layer (TML).Authors

The participants in the ForCES Protocol Team, primary co-authors and
co-editors, of this protocol specification, are:

Ligang Dong (Zhejiang Gongshang University), Avri Doria (Lulea
University of Technology), Ram Gopal (Nokia), Robert Haas (IBM),
Jamal Hadi Salim (Znyx), Hormuzd M Khosravi (Intel), and Weiming Wang
(Zhejiang Gongshang University).  Special acknowledgement goes to
Joel Halpern who has done extensive editing in support of congruence
between the model and this protocol specification.  Without his
participation and persistence, this specification might never have
been completed.

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Protocol Action: 'ForCES Protocol Specification' to Proposed Standard

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'ForCES Protocol Specification '
   <draft-ietf-forces-protocol-22.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Forwarding and Control Element 
Separation Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Ross Callon and David Ward.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-forces-protocol-22.txt

Technical Summary

  This document specifies the Forwarding and Control Element Separation
  (ForCES) protocol.  ForCES protocol is used for communications
  between Control Elements(CEs) and Forwarding Elements (FEs) in a
  ForCES Network Element (ForCES NE).  This specification is intended
  to meet the ForCES protocol requirements defined in RFC3654.  Besides
  the ForCES protocol, this specification also defines the requirements
  for the Transport Mapping Layer (TML).

Working Group Summary

  No dissent reported. This document is the result of a merger of 
  several proposals from competing design teams and represents a 
  good WG consensus.

Protocol Quality

I-D Action:draft-ietf-forces-interoperability-00.txt

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This draft is a work item of the Forwarding and Control Element Separation Working Group of the IETF.

	Title           : ForCES Interoperability Draft
	Author(s)       : E. Haleplidis, et al.
	Filename        : draft-ietf-forces-interoperability-00.txt
	Pages           : 16
	Date            : 2009-03-04

This document describes the details of the interoperability test of
the Forward and Control Element Separation (ForCES) protocol that
will take place in the University of Patras in Rio, Greece, in the
fourth week of July 2009.  This informational draft provides
necessary information, for all parties who wish to participate in the
interoperability test.

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http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-forces-interoperability-00.txt

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Protocol Action: 'ForCES MIB' to Proposed Standard

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'ForCES MIB '
   <draft-ietf-forces-mib-10.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Forwarding and Control Element 
Separation Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Ross Callon and David Ward.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-forces-mib-10.txt

Technical Summary

  This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) module for use
  with network management protocols in the Internet community.  In
  particular, it defines managed objects for the Forwarding and Control
  Element Separation (ForCES) Network Element (NE). 

Working Group Summary

  This is the MIB that goes with the Forces Protocol (see 
  draft-ietf-forces-protocol). This document was produced very 
  smoothly in the Forces WG. There were some discussions on the 
  mailing list but no conflicts (see PROTO writeup in the ID
  Tracker).

Protocol Quality