%0 Generic %D 2003 %T Requirements for Separation of IP Control and Forwarding %A Anderson, Todd %A Bowen, Ed %A Ram Dantu %A Doria, Avri %A Gopal, Ram %A Salim, Jamal %A Khosravi, Hormuzd %A Minhazuddin, Muneyb %A Wasserman, Margaret %X

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.

%I RFC Editor %8 11/2003