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 There are at least four different implementations of this protocol (see the PROTO writeup in the tracker). This specification has been extensively reviewed, and has been updated based on these reviews including routing directorate reviews by Sue Hares and Alia Atlas, Gen-Art review by Eric Gray, Sec-Dir review by Uri Blumenthal, and IESG review. IANA Note Jamal Hadi Salim [hadi@znyx.com] has volunteered to be the designated IANA expert for this document. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
