Furquan Ansari
   Internet Draft                                          Lucent Tech.
   Document: draft-ansari-forces-discovery-01.txt      Hormuzd Khosravi
   Expires: April 24, 2005                                  Intel Corp.
   Working Group: ForCES                               Jamal Hadi Salim
                                                                   Znyx
                                                       October 25, 2004



                    ForCES Intra-NE Topology Discovery

                  draft-ansari-forces-discovery-01.txt


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   Abstract

   This  document  describes  a  mechanism  for  discovering  inter-FE
   topology and topology maintenance. Such a mechanism is essential for
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   all these elements in the set to behave as a single Network Element,
   as required by the ForCES architecture as well as to perform certain
   optimizations at the FE by making use of the topology. The discovery
   mechanism only operates during post-association phase of ForCES
   protocol.


Table of Contents
1. Definitions........................................................2
2. Introduction.......................................................2
   2.1. Motivation....................................................4
3. Topology Discovery Mechanism.......................................5
   3.1. Minimum requirements..........................................6
   3.2. Protocol Details..............................................6
      3.2.1. Topology Discovery and Maintenance.......................7
      3.2.2.  Full  topology  computation  at  the  CE  from  partial
      topologies......................................................8
   3.3. Protocol and Message Headers..................................9
      3.3.1. TLV definitions.........................................10
   3.4. Inter-FE Topology Discovery Examples.........................10
      3.4.1. Forwarding Elements connected in a daisy chain..........11
      3.4.2. Forwarding Elements connected in a ring.................12
4. Security Considerations...........................................13
5. References........................................................13
   5.1. Normative....................................................13
   5.2. Informative..................................................14
6. Authors' Addresses................................................14
7. Full Copyright Notice.............................................14
8. Acknowledgements..................................................15

1. Definitions

   Inter-FE topology discovery: Topology discovery relates to how the
   FEs are interconnected with each other with respect to packet
   forwarding. This is the complete view of the intra-NE network as
   seen by the CE.

  Inter-FE topology maintenance: Once the inter-FE topology has been
  discovered, it has to be continuously monitored to ensure that any
  changes to the topology are reported to the corresponding CE. This
  represents the steady state and final phase of the protocol.


2. Introduction
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   The ForCES framework document [RFC 3746] describes how a set of
   control elements (CEs) and forwarding elements (FEs) interact with
   each other to form a single network element (NE). It describes the
   ForCES  post-association  phase  protocol  working  across  the  Fp
   reference point between CE and FE. This document describes an
   important aspect of the ForCES operational infrastructure, that of
   discovering the layout of the different elements within an NE.

   We  describe  a  mechanism  for  obtaining  the  Intra-NE/Inter-FE
   topology.
   The mechanism is divided into two distinct operational pieces:
   . The FE side component that collects FE neighbor information.
   . The CE side component that uses the neighbor information to
     compute the NE topology.
   Given the above split, we believe that this mechanism fits well
   within a description of Topology Discovery LFB.


    The mechanism at the FE can be divided into two modes or phases.

   . Phase I corresponds to the actual discovery process wherein each
     element  discovers  its  neighbor  and  maintains  a  neighbor
     relationship. Upon Joining an NE, the CE will instruct the FE to
     start collecting this information. This happens when the FE is
     administratively up and the associated neighbor links are deemed
     to be provisioned and operationally up.
   . Phase II corresponds to the topology maintenance phase, wherein
     any changes to the inter-FE topology during normal operation is
     reported to the corresponding CE so that an updated view is
     available. The CE then makes all services it is controlling aware
     of such details. As an example, based on policy, in a basic IPV4
     service, the tables of associated FEs will need to be updated.

   As noted above, both phases occur during the post-association phases
   of  the  ForCES  protocol.  In  other  words,  the  ForCES  protocol
   association between the CE and the FEs should already have taken
   place for the discovery mechanism to kick in. This is required
   because  the  neighbor  relationships  maintained  by  the  FEs  are
   reported back to the CE (or queried by the CE) over the ForCES
   protocol.

   The proposed discovery mechanism is required to scale to a very
   large number of forwarding elements in the NE, with minimal impact
   on the resources. The following list provides some of the features
   and goals of the discovery mechanism.

   . Determine connectivity between elements
   . React to changes in link connectivity
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   . Construct topology information from the collected partial topology
     information
   . Tolerant to protocol message losses
   . Applicable to all inter-FE network topologies such as ring, mesh,
     star etc.
   . Cause minimal overhead
   . Agnostic of the network interconnect technology


2.1. Motivation

   The ForCES architecture defines a network element (NE) as a single
   managed entity made up of a collection of FEs and CEs and is
   indistinguishable from other network elements in the network. This
   NE model definition leads to three types of links from the networkÆs
   perspective: internal (or intra-NE) links and external (or inter-NE)
   links and control links. Intra-NE links are purely internal to the
   NE and are not exposed to the external world; whereas, inter-NE (or
   external) links are exposed to the external world and over which
   routing adjacencies (such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP etc.) can be formed.
   An NE can contain FEs that have zero or more internal/external links
   ¡ e.g. in Fig. 1, FE3 has two internal links and no external links
   while FE1 and FE2 have two internal links and one external link
   each. Control links are those links that are used for communication
   between the CE and FE. If the CE and FE are a single Layer 3 hop
   away as in Fig.1, the control link is typically a physical link e.g.
   link A of FE1 in the figure. Control links can be logical as well.

   A packet entering a ForCES NE may travel multiple FEs within the NE
   before it exits onto the output link. This requires that the packet
   be correctly forwarded from the ingress FE to the egress FE. This
   internal forwarding requires knowledge of the physical FE inter-
   connection topology so that the CE can appropriately setup internal
   LFB tables at each FE to handle packet traversal in a sane manner.
   We use a simple topology discovery mechanism that only operates on
   internal links and provides the necessary routing information to
   forward the packets from the ingress FE to the egress FE. Further,
   the  mechanism  should  be  able  to  reroute  around  internal  link
   failures, if a path exists. This makes the NE highly available and
   resilient.


                  NE 1
   .....................................
   .         -----------------          .
   .         |      CE       |          .
   .         -----------------          .            ----------
   .        A ^    B ^    C ^           .            |  NE 1  |
   .         /       |       \          .            |        |
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   .        /      A v        \         .            ----------
   .       /      ------- B    \        .             ^      ^
   .      /    +->| FE3 |<-+    \       . <====>     /        \
   .     /     |C |     |  |     \      .           /          \
   .  A v      |  -------  |      v A   .          v            v
   .  -------B |           |D -------   .       --------      ---------
   .  | FE1 |<-+           +->| FE2 |   .       | NE 2 |<---->|  NE 3 |
   .  |     |<--------------->|     |   .       |      |      |       |
   .  ------- C             C -------   .       --------      ---------
   .   D^                       ^B      .
   .....|.......................|........
        |                       |
        V                       v
    --------                 --------
    | NE 2 |<--------------->| NE 3 |
    |      |                 |      |
    --------                 --------

                (a)                                        (b)

   Figure 1:(a) illustrates the internal/external links and topology
   within a NE. (b) Shows the network topology as seen by external
   routing protocols


3. Topology Discovery Mechanism

   The topology discovery mechanism described here will be restricted
   to the case where the control and the forwarding elements are a
   single layer 3 hop away. However, there is no restriction on the
   number of layer 2 hops between the CE and the FEs. Although, the
   mechanism  can  be  extended  to  the  multi-hop  scenario,  it  is
   considered beyond the scope of this document to describe it. The
   mechanism is expected to work on point-to-point as well as multi-
   access links.

   In order to keep the discovery and maintenance mechanism as simple
   as possible, the FEs only maintain relationships with the respective
   neighbors to determine the status of the neighbors. No databases are
   exchanged between the neighbors. This implies that the topology view
   for each FE is only limited to the adjacent elements. This partial
   topology information is reported back to the CE (or queried by the
   CE) over the ForCES protocol. Since the CE receives such information
   from all the FEs, it can easily construct the full topology from
   individual partial topologies reported by each FE. Once the CE
   constructs the full topology, such information can be passed to the
   FEs, if needed (depending on policy).

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   Topology information is needed by a lot of LFBs and associated
   services that span multiple FEs within a NE. In the case where the
   FE aids the CE in offloading the table updates, then it makes sense
   for the FE to be topology aware. It is sometimes also helpful to
   keep full topology information at the FEs for cases such as ômessage
   snoopingö optimizations. For example, if an FE is aware of the
   topology, it could snoop on messages sent to other FEs (e.g.
   broadcasts,  multicasts)  and  update  its  own  tables  dynamically
   without involving the CE. Another example would be FE-FE primary-
   backup handover scenario. With each FE being fully aware of the
   complete topology, the backup FE can take over the responsibilities
   of the primary without involving the CE for such a handover.

3.1. Minimum requirements

   In order for the protocol to work as described, the following
   assumptions are made.
     . Each element has been configured with their respective IDs
        (CEID, FEID)
     . Element bindings process has already taken place. In other
        words, the CE know all the FEs it wants to control and each FE
        knows which CE is allowed to control it.
     . The ForCES protocol association has already taken place between
        the CE and the FE in question.
     . The protocol is enabled on the required interfaces.

   Note that these are configuration requirements and are satisfied by
   the respective managers (CEM/FEM).

3.2. Protocol Details

   Once the ForCES protocol association has been established between a
   CE and a given FE ¡ i.e. it is in post-association phase, the CE
   starts  sending/advertising  Hello/Probe  messages  to  the  FEÆs
   neighbors such that the messages go through the given FE. In other
   words, it looks like the given FE is generating probe messages to
   the neighbor (except that these messages are coming from the CE over
   the  ForCES  protocol  first).  However,  this  functionality  of
   generating probe messages by the CE can be offloaded to the FE
   itself (to be more precise, to an FE LFB) ¡ so that the FE can
   originate and terminate the probe messages. This provides better
   scalability of the CE and itÆs resources. The CE can now simply
   query each FEÆs neighbor relationship database and register for any
   events related to topology changes.

   All Hello/Probe messages travel a single PE hop and are not routed
   to other elements beyond the first hop. This is ensured by using a
   TTL of one on all Hello/Probe packets. The messages are sent as IP
   datagrams  (multicast/broadcast,  where  applicable,  or  unicast  in
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   general) to the neighboring elements over configured interfaces.
   Each FE topology LFB component maintains the neighbor relationships
   as long as the Hello messages are received from the neighbor. If it
   does not receive a pre-determined number (configured) of back-to-
   back Hello messages from a given neighbor, it deletes the entry from
   the database and reports this change to the CE in the form of an
   event-driven message over the ForCES protocol. This ensures that the
   CE has the complete and up-to-date information of the underlying
   topology of the Inter-FE network.

   The Hello message contains information necessary for discovering and
   maintaining neighbor relationships. It contains the PE ID, type of
   protocol element (i.e. CE or FE), interval between any two messages,
   interval for deeming a neighbor inactive, capability information
   etc. This is, in some ways, similar to the capabilities of the OSPF
   Hello protocol.

   On receiving the Hello messages from a neighbor, the FE responds
   back with its own Hello message in a packet format similar to the
   one  received  from  the  neighbor.  Essentially,  both  sides  are
   independently sending Hello messages to each other and listing their
   neighbor table. Also, each neighbor will see itself listed on its
   neighbors Hello message. This ensures bi-directionality of the link
   between any two neighbors.


   The operation is concisely described by the following steps:
   . CE activates the topology LFB/component on the FE to initialize on
     specific ports
   . FE topology LFB/component sends neighbor probes/hellos
   . CE queries FE for its neighbors
   . FE continues to send these probes afterwards (maintenance) and
     updates asynchronously any new updates


3.2.1. Topology Discovery and Maintenance

   Since the CE needs to maintain consistent and up-to-date view of the
   inter-FE topology, it needs to obtain real-time information of the
   status of the internal links connecting the FEs. Since the topology
   discovery and maintenance occurs during the post-association phase,
   we make use of the event-notification and query/response messages
   [ForCESP] of the ForCES protocol to provide this information to the
   CE. It is important to note that each FE only maintains partial
   topology   information   obtained   through   neighbor   relationship
   maintenance through Hello messages. The partial topology view seen
   by each FE is only the neighbor connectivity information. The CE has
   to derive the complete topology view of the interconnected FEs based
   on the partial topology information reported by each FE (or queried
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   by the CE). This ensures that that only the CE maintains all the
   intelligence and the protocol operation on the FEs is very simple
   and  has  minimal  overhead.  However,  as  mentioned  above,  if
   optimizations can be performed by having the complete topology
   information available at the FEs, the CE can push such information
   to any FE interested in it (interest on the FE may be shown in the
   form of policy configuration). This is an optional feature available
   on each FE, which can be turned on or off through configuration or
   during capability exchange negotiation at setup time. Each FE vendor
   may decide to make use of this feature in different ways, so the
   capability to obtain such topology information should exist.

   The periodic Hello messages maintain PE neighbor relationships.
   Any change in the link or neighbor status causes the FE to generate
   an  asynchronous/event-driven  message  to  the  CE  indicating  this
   change. The mechanism defined in [ForCESP] is used for delivering
   event-driven messages from the FE to the CE. This involves the CE
   subscribing to such event-driven messages from the FE.

   The CE aggregates the partial topology information received from
   each FE and generates the inter-FE topology. With this complete
   knowledge of the inter-FE topology, it can now make appropriate
   updates to the LFB tables on each FE to move packets inside the NE ¡
   from ingress FE to egress FE, assuming that the destination of the
   packet is not the current NE itself. Any changes in the internal
   link  states  (and  hence  the  topology)  requires  that  the  CE
   reconfigure the LFB tables on the FEs based on the most up-to-date
   information to ensure that the packets do not end up in a black hole
   or enter a loop.


3.2.2. Full topology computation at the CE from partial topologies

   The CE receives neighbor relationships information from each FE that
   it uses to construct the full topology of the internal network. Each
   FEÆs neighbor relationship table contains information regarding the
   local element ID, local port connecting the neighbor, the neighborÆs
   ID, the neighborÆs port and any optional additional information.
   Note that the fact that the FE already knows the neighborÆs port
   information implies that it received the probe/hello messages from
   the neighbor on that port in response to the hello sent and was,
   therefore, able to establish bi-directionality of the link. If all
   the links in the internal network are point-to-point links, the CE
   simply  has  to  aggregate  all  the  neighbor  relationship  tables
   obtained from all the FEs to generate the full topology. If we
   assume the topology to be a graph, each edge of the graph will be
   present twice ¡ essentially providing the same information from the
   two endpoints of the graph. After deleting all the duplicate entries
   (and thus reducing the table size by half), the CE now has accurate
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   view of the full topology. Please refer section 3.4 [Fig. 3(b)] for
   more details.

   [Sub-section  on  generating  full  topology  from  partial  topology
   information  for  broadcast/multi-access,  point-to-multipoint  etc.
   type of links]

3.3. Protocol and Message Headers

   The protocol message consists of a fixed length header (16 bytes)
   followed by one or more optional TLVs. The format of the message is
   as follows.

   0                   1                   2                   3
   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Version   |    Flags      |          Packet Length        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |          Checksum           |          Port ID              |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                         PE ID                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |        TLV-Type             |          TLV-Length           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                         TLV-Value     ...                   |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                            ...                              |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                                Figure (2)

   Version: Version number of this protocol. Currently acceptable value
   is 0x01

   Flags: These indicate whether the message is sent by a FE, (0x01) or
   CE (0x02). More options may be defined in the future.

   Packet  Length:  The  length  of  the  protocol  message  in  bytes,
   including the header and the following TLVs.

   Checksum: 16-bit checksum for the protocol message. The checksum
   calculation does not include the IP header.

   Port ID: This indicates the port on which this packet was sent out
   by the sender ¡ useful for topology construction.

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   PE ID: This is the 32-bit identifier of the sender. It could either
   be CE ID or FE ID, depending on the sender.

   The protocol header is followed by one or many TLVs. The following
   TLVs types are defined:

   Hello  TLV:  Indicates  the  Hello  message  as  exchanged  by  the
   neighbors. The TLV defines the common hello parameters such as the
   Hello Interval, Hold time, Uni-directional targeted Hellos, Sequence
   space number, if needed etc.

   Capabilities TLV: Provides the capabilities information - TBD

   Vendor specific TLV: TBD



3.3.1. TLV definitions
   TBD


3.4. Inter-FE Topology Discovery Examples

   The following examples illustrate the topology discovery mechanism.
   For sake of simplicity, we assume that there is only one CE per NE.
   The FEIDs of the FEs in the topologies below are FE1, FE2, FE3, and
   FE4. Each FE has port IDs labeled alphabetically. This is also the
   case with the CE.

            -----------------
            |      CE       |
            -----------------
           A ^    B ^    C ^
            /       |       \
           /      A v        \
          /      ------- B    \
         /    +->| FE3 |<-+    \
        /     |C |     |  |     \
     A v      |  -------  |      v A
     -------B |           |E -------
     | FE1 |<-+           +->| FE2 |
     |     |<--------------->|     |
     ------- C             D -------
      E ^ D|                 C ^  | B
        |  |                   |  |
        |  v                   |  v

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        FE3 Control Element reachability Table
        --------------------------------------
        <Dest Addr>             <local intf>
          CE                         A
        --------------------------------------


         FE3 NEIGHBOR ASSOCIATION TABLE
        -----------------------------------------------
        <local intf> <neighbor_FEID> <neighbor_portID>
              B            FE2                 E
              C            FE1                 B
         ----------------------------------------------

    Figure 3. (a) Full mesh among FE1, FE2, and FE3

   During the element-binding phase, each FE sends out hello messages
   with its FEID and Port ID (as outlined earlier) to all of its
   neighbors. Since each neighboring FE also listens to such messages,
   it  receives  the  hello  message  and  adds  it  to  the  neighbor
   association table, which may look like that shown in Fig.4(a). In
   the topology discovery phase, which is post ForCES association
   stage, the CE queries each FE about its neighbor table. The FE
   responds  back  with  the  partial  topology  information  available
   through its neighbor relationships. Both the query and the response
   are carried by the ForCES protocol. The CE collects the partial
   topology information from all the FEs in the NE and aggregates this
   information to fully construct the inter-FE topology. Any changes to
   the FE neighbor table, e.g. when a link state changes, generates a
   trigger/update message to the CE. The new information is used to
   recalculate  the  new  topology  and  subsequently  the  CE  takes
   appropriate actions based on the new topology ¡ such as updating the
   packet forwarding tables on the FEs.

   The following examples show the neighbor association tables.

3.4.1. Forwarding Elements connected in a daisy chain


                   --------------
                   |     CE     |
                   --------------
               A  ^ ^ B    ^    ^ D
                 /  |       \    \
          /------   |        --\  -------\
       A v        A v           v A       v A
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      -------B    -------B    -------B    -------
      | FE1 |<--->| FE2 |<--->| FE3 |<--->| FE4 |
      -------    E-------    E-------    D-------
      D ^  |C     D ^  |C      D^  |C      C^  |B
        |  |        |  |        |  |        |  |
        |  v        |  v        |  v        |  v



    FE1 NBR ASSOCIATION TABLE           FE2 NBR ASSOCIATION TABLE
    --------------------------------    ------------------------------
   <locl intf> <nbr_FEID> <nbr_port>  <locl intf> <nbr_FEID> <nbr_port>
         B        FE2         E            E          FE1        B
                                           B          FE3        E


    FE3 NBR ASSOCIATION TABLE          FE4 NBR ASSOCIATION TABLE
    --------------------------------   -----------------------------
   <locl intf> <nbr_FEID> <nbr_port>  <locl intf> <nbr_FEID> <nbr_port>
         B        FE4         D           D          FE3         B
         E        FE2         B




         CE Topology (Aggregate)View            CE Topology View
     --------------------------------    ------------------------------
      <Node>  <Port>  <Node>  <Port>     <Node>  <Port>  <Node>  <Port>
        FE1     B       FE2     E\         FE1      B      FE2     E
        FE2     E       FE1     B/   =>    FE2      B      FE3     E
        FE2     B       FE3     E\         FE3      B      FE4     D
        FE3     E       FE2     B/       ------------------------------
        FE3     B       FE4     D\
        FE4     D       FE3     B/
      --------------------------------



      Fig.3(b) Multiple FEs in a daisy chain



3.4.2. Forwarding Elements connected in a ring


                      ^ |
                     D| v E
                   ----------- A
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                   |   FE1   |<-----------------------|
                   -----------                        |
                   C ^    ^ B                         |
                    /      \                          |
             | ^   /        \    ^ |                   V A
           B v |C v D      C v  D| v E             ----------
           ---------        ---------             D|        |
           | FE2   |        |  FE3  |<------------>|   CE   |
           ---------        ---------  A           |        |
             A ^  ^ E        ^ B                   ----------
               |   \        /                      C ^  ^ B
               |    \      /                         |  |
               |   D v   E v                          |  |
               |   ----------- A                     |  |
               |   |   FE4   |<----------------------|  |
               |   -----------                          |
               |    C |  ^ B                            |
               |      v  |                              |
               |                                        |
               |----------------------------------------|



    FE1 NBR ASSOCIATION TABLE            FE2 NBR ASSOCIATION TABLE
    --------------------------------   -----------------------------
   <locl intf> <nbr_FEID> <nbr_port>  <locl intf> <nbr_FEID> <nbr_port>
       B           FE3        C           E          FE4        D
       C           FE2        D           D          FE1        C



    FE3 NBR ASSOCIATION TABLE          FE4 NBR ASSOCIATION TABLE
    --------------------------------  -----------------------------
   <locl intf> <nbr_FEID> <nbr_port>  <locl intf> <nbr_FEID> <nbr_port>
        B         FE4         E           D          FE2         E
        C         FE1         B           E          FE3         B

           Fig. 3(c) Multiple FEs connected in a ring


4. Security Considerations

   Like all protocols, this protocol will have security issues as well.
   These issues will be researched in detail in future draft versions.


5. References

5.1. Normative
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   [RFC3746]  Yang, L., Dantu, R., Anderson, T. and R. Gopal,
              "Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES)
              Framework", RFC 3746, April 2004.
   [RFC3654]  Khosravi, H. and T. Anderson, "Requirements for
              Separation of IP Control and Forwarding", RFC 3654,
              November 2003.
   [ForCESP]  F P Team, "ForCES protocol specification",
              draft-ietf-forces-protocol-00.txt, Sept 2004.

5.2. Informative

   [OSPF]     J. Moy, ôOSPF Version 2ö, 1998, RFC 2328.
   [BGP]      Y. Rekhter, T. Li, ôA Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)ö,
              1995, RFC 1771.
   [IS-IS]    R. Collela et al., ôGuidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in
              the Internetö, 1994, RFC 1629.


6. Authors' Addresses

   Furquan Ansari
   Bell Labs Research, Lucent Tech.
   101 Crawfords Corner Road
   Holmdel, NJ 07733
   USA
   Phone: +1 732-949-5249
   Email: furquan@lucent.com


   Hormuzd Khosravi
   Intel
   2111 N.E. 25th Avenue JF3-206
   Hillsboro, OR 97124-5961
   USA
   Phone: +1 503 264 0334
   Email: hormuzd.m.khosravi@intel.com


   Jamal Hadi Salim
   ZNYX Networks
   Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
   Email: hadi@znyx.com


7. Full Copyright Notice

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8. Acknowledgements
   We would like to thank Thyaga Nandagopal of Lucent Technologies for
   his thoughts and contributions to the initial draft.

   Funding for the RFC Editor function is currently provided by the
   Internet Society.

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