The IESG has approved the following document: - 'ForCES Packet Parallelization' (draft-ietf-forces-packet-parallelization-02.txt) as Experimental RFC This document is the product of the Forwarding and Control Element Separation Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adrian Farrel and Alia Atlas. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-forces-packet-parallelization/ Technical Summary 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. Working Group Summary The document has had a number of iterations based on comments and discussions both in meetings and the mailing list. The LFB definitions and descriptions have been reviewed and are straightforward. We believe the working group is solidly behind this document. Document Quality At least one implementation has validated some of the features described in the document. Personnel The document shepherd is Damascene Joachimpillai <dj@verizon.com> The responsible Area Director is Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk> RFC Editor Note Please change all instances of "Cilc" to "Cilk" including the citation.
