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Implementation Report for Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES)
RFC 6053

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['Stream Control Transmission Protocol-based Transport Mapping Layer', 'SCTP TML', 'forces Model']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "J. Hadi Salim": changed name from "Jamal Hadi Salim" to "J. Hadi Salim", cleared country (was "Canada"), changed order from "3" to "4"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "W. Wang": changed name from "Weiming Wang" to "W. Wang", cleared country (was "P.R. China"), changed order from "0" to "3"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "K. Ogawa": changed name from "Kentaro Ogawa" to "K. Ogawa", cleared country (was "Japan"), changed order from "1" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "E. Haleplidis": changed name from "Evangelos Haleplidis" to "E. Haleplidis", cleared country (was "Greece"), changed order from "2" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2018-12-20
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) defines an architectural framework and associated protocols to standardize information …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) defines an architectural framework and associated protocols to standardize information exchange between the control plane and the forwarding plane in a ForCES network element (ForCES NE). RFC 3654 has defined the ForCES requirements, and RFC 3746 has defined the ForCES framework.

This document is an implementation report for the ForCES Protocol, Model, and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol-based Transport Mapping Layer (SCTP TML) documents, and includes a report on interoperability testing and the current state of ForCES implementations. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.')
2015-10-14
(System) Notify list changed from forces-chairs@ietf.org, draft-ietf-forces-implementation-report@ietf.org, jmh@joelhalpern.com to jmh@joelhalpern.com
2010-11-10
Cindy Morgan State changed to RFC Published from RFC Ed Queue.
2010-11-10
Cindy Morgan [Note]: 'RFC 6053
' added by Cindy Morgan
2010-11-07
(System) RFC published