The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'IETF ForCES Logical Function Block (LFB) Subsidiary Management' <draft-ietf-forces-lfb-subsidiary-management-01.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 2015-08-28. 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 Deployment experience has demonstrated the value of using the Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) architecture to manage resources other than packet forwarding. In that spirit, the Forwarding Element Manager (FEM) is modelled by creating a Logical Functional Block (LFB) to represent its functionality. We refer to this LFB as the Subsidiary Mechanism (SM) LFB. A Control Element (CE) that controls a Forwarding Element's (FE) resources can also manage its configuration via the SM LFB. This document introduces the SM LFB, an LFB that specifies the configuration parameters of an FE. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-forces-lfb-subsidiary-management/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-forces-lfb-subsidiary-management/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
