The IESG has received a request from the Forwarding and Control Element Separation WG (forces) to consider the following document: - 'ForCES Packet Parallelization' <draft-ietf-forces-packet-parallelization-02.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2014-09-29. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. 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 (RFC 5810), 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. Many network devices support parallel packet processing. This document describes how ForCES can model a network device's parallelization datapath. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-forces-packet-parallelization/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-forces-packet-parallelization/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2329/
