A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Forwarding and Control Element Separation Working Group of the IETF. Title : ForCES Model Extension Author : Evangelos Haleplidis Filename : draft-ietf-forces-model-extension-04.txt Pages : 30 Date : 2014-08-21 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 that 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 a forwarding element (FE), what capabilities these functions support, and how these functions are or can be interconnected. RFC5812 has been around for two years and experience in its use has shown room for small extensions without a need to alter the protocol while retaining backward compatibility with older xml libraries. This document updates RFC5812 and extends the model to allow complex datatypes for metadata, optional default values for datatypes, optional access types for structures and fixes an issue with Logical Functional Block (LFB) inheritance. The document also introduces two new features a new event condition BecomesEqualTo and LFB properties. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-forces-model-extension/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-forces-model-extension-04 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-forces-model-extension-04 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt