TY - Generic T1 - Requirements for Separation of IP Control and Forwarding Y1 - 2003 A1 - Anderson, Todd A1 - Bowen, Ed A1 - Ram Dantu A1 - Doria, Avri A1 - Gopal, Ram A1 - Salim, Jamal A1 - Khosravi, Hormuzd A1 - Minhazuddin, Muneyb A1 - Wasserman, Margaret AB -

This document introduces the Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) architecture and defines a set of associated terminology.  This document also defines a set of architectural, modeling, and protocol requirements to logically separate the control and data forwarding planes of an IP (IPv4, IPv6, etc.) networking device.

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