1.0 Summary
This is the shepherd writeup for
draft-ietf-forces-lfb-subsidiary-management-01.txt, prepared by Joel Halpern
acting as document shepherd. Alia Atlas is the Area Director handling the
advancement of this individual proposed standard document.
This document was originally developed in the ForCES working group. It was
reviewed in that group, and has been reviewed by the shepherd after the closing
of the working group. As stated in the 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.
2.0 Review and Consensus
The document shepherd has reviewed this document several times during its
evolution. The working group reviewed and briefly discussed the document
in July on 2014, and adopted the document without dissent in February of
2015. Informal discussion indicated agreement that the particular problem
beign addressed was useful, and that the approach was consistent with the
overall ForCES work.
3.0 Intellectual Property
The shepherd has confirmed with all authors that there is no undisclosed
intellectual property. There was no IPR disclosed, and no discussion of
IPR in the working group.
4.0 Other Considerations
The IANA considerations section properly identifies the registrations to be
made, the registry to be used, and the applicable rules (standards action)
for this registration.