1 ForCES Applicability Statement Alan Crouch Mark Handley Hormuzd Khosravi 65 th IETF Meeting, Dallas

2 Topics  Quick Refresher  Areas updated  Opens  Summary

3 Quick Refresher!  Draft describes the Applicability of ForCES protocol & model  Applicable Services –Discovery, capability information –Topology information –Routing –QoS –Security –Filtering –NAT –Tunneling

4 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

5 Areas Updated  Manageability section  Editorial, References

6 ForCES Manageability Section Many Thanks to Avri Doria for providing the text! –NE as atomic element –NE as being composed of managed elements –ForCES MIB –CEM & FEM

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

8 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

9 Backup