@misc{rfc5810, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 5810, howpublished = {RFC 5810}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC5810}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5810}, author = {Joel M. Halpern and Robert HAAS and avri doria and Ligang Dong and Weiming Wang and Hormuzd M. Khosravi and Jamal Hadi Salim and Ram Gopal}, title = {{Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Protocol Specification}}, pagetotal = 124, year = 2010, month = mar, abstract = {This document specifies the Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) protocol. The ForCES protocol is used for communications between Control Elements (CEs) and Forwarding Elements (FEs) in a ForCES Network Element (ForCES NE). This specification is intended to meet the ForCES protocol requirements defined in RFC 3654. Besides the ForCES protocol, this specification also defines the requirements for the Transport Mapping Layer (TML). {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }