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Title : Virtualization of the Forwarding Plane with ForCES
Author(s) : Evangelos Haleplidis
Odysseas Koufopavlou
Spyros Denazis
Filename : draft-haleplidis-forces-virtualization-00.txt
Pages : 20
Date : 2012-10-15
Abstract:
Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) defines an
architectural framework and associated protocols to standardize
information exchange between the control plane and the forwarding
plane in a ForCES Network Element (ForCES NE). RFC5812 has defined
the ForCES Model provides a formal way to represent the capabilities,
state, and configuration of forwarding elements within the context of
the ForCES protocol, so that control elements (CEs) can control the
FEs accordingly. More specifically, the model describes the logical
functions that are present in an FE, what capabilities these
functions support, and how these functions are or can be
interconnected.
The ForCES model provides the necessary abstractions to natively
support virtualization of the forwarding plane. This documents
describes a formal approach to model the necessary parameters
required for defining and managing virtual network forwarding planes
to create virtual network elements.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-haleplidis-forces-virtualization
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-haleplidis-forces-virtualization-00
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