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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / OCTOBER 6, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 40
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Breaking News -
Networking:
NPF Adds Four Software
Implementation Agreements
The Network Processing Forum (NPF) announced the availability of the MPLS
Forwarding Service Application Programming Interfaces (API) with Diffserv and
TE Extensions Implementation Agreement (IA), the IPv6 Unicast Forwarding
Service API IA, the Packet Handler API IA and version 2.0 of the Software API
Conventions IA. These specification's were unveiled during the "Network
Processing Forum: Standards Update" session of the Network Processing Track at
CDC 2003. Broad implementation of these API's by network processing component
manufacturers and software developers will accelerate the adoption of network
processing technologies by networking equipment manufacturers. Standard
interfaces such as these will lower costs and speed products to market by
increasing the availability of compatible software solutions and expanding
interface re-use across multiple platforms.
"These API's will enable designers at System OEMs to choose the control
plane
software components that best fit their requirements and maximize their
competitive advantage," said Lars Petersen, board member of the NPF. "We are
very pleased with the progress that the Software Working Group has made in the
development of key software API's that build upon the NPF Software Framework
that was originally adopted in 2002."
All four software IA's support the mission of the software working group to
define and deliver open software interfaces that permit integration between
multiple software applications and network processing elements. Each IA
provides a vendor neutral, industry specification for networking OEMs,
software vendors and component providers to implement in system designs
supporting the target functionality.
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