rfc-3654

Requirements for Separation of IP Control and Forwarding

H. Khosravi (Editor), T. Anderson (Editor)

date2003-12 streamIETF areartg wgforces statusINFORMATIONAL pages18 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3654 doi10.17487/RFC3654

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.