I-D Action:draft-ietf-forces-protocol-21.txt

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	Title           : ForCES Protocol Specification
	Author(s)       : L. Dong, et al.
	Filename        : draft-ietf-forces-protocol-21.txt
	Pages           : 126
	Date            : 2009-02-03

This document specifies the Forwarding and Control Element Separation
(ForCES) protocol.  ForCES protocol is used for communications
between Control Elements(CEs) and Forwarding Elements (FEs) in a
ForCES Network Element (ForCES NE).  This specification is intended
to meet the ForCES protocol requirements defined in RFC3654.  Besides
the ForCES protocol, this specification also defines the requirements
for the Transport Mapping Layer (TML).Authors

The participants in the ForCES Protocol Team, primary co-authors and
co-editors, of this protocol specification, are:

Ligang Dong (Zhejiang Gongshang University), Avri Doria (Lulea
University of Technology), Ram Gopal (Nokia), Robert Haas (IBM),
Jamal Hadi Salim (Znyx), Hormuzd M Khosravi (Intel), and Weiming Wang
(Zhejiang Gongshang University).  Special acknowledgement goes to
Joel Halpern who has done extensive editing in support of congruence
between the model and this protocol specification.  Without his
participation and persistence, this specification might never have
been completed.

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