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ForCES Applicability Statement

Alan CrouchMark HandleyHormuzd Khosravi

65th IETF Meeting, Dallas

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Topics Quick Refresher Areas updated Opens Summary

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Quick Refresher! Draft describes the Applicability of ForCES

protocol & model Applicable Services–Discovery, capability information– Topology information–Routing–QoS–Security– Filtering–NAT– Tunneling

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Quick Refresher! Limitations and Out-of-Scope Items Out-of-Scope services– Layer 2 switching–Multimedia Gateways

Localities–Same physical box or CE/FE separated by at

most 1 network hop

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Areas Updated Manageability section Editorial, References

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ForCES Manageability SectionMany Thanks to Avri Doria for providing the

text!–NE as atomic element–NE as being composed of managed

elements–ForCES MIB–CEM & FEM

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Opens/Under investigation Manageability section Any other items we should investigate?

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Summary Addressed feedback from the mailing list:–Added Manageability section

Any final comments on the draft? Authors would like to issue a WG last call

shortly

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Backup