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Shepherd writeup
draft-ietf-forces-packet-parallelization

1. Summary

The document shepherd is Damascene Joachimpillai <dj@verizon.com>
The responsible Area Director is Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk>

This document describes how packet parallelization, a feature present in many
networking devices, is supported by the ForCES model. This document defines two 
new LFBs that provide support for parallelization and a new core LFB to notify the 
FE's capability to parallelize packet processing.

2. Review and Consensus

The document has had a number of iterations based on comments and discussions 
both in meetings and the mailing list. The LFB definitions and descriptions have been 
reviewed and are straightforward.
At least one implementation has validated some of the features described in the 
document.  
We believe the working group is solidly behind this document. 

3. Intellectual Property

The author has confirmed conformance with BCP 78/79. 
There is only one known IPR disclosure on the document.

4. Other Points

a. Figure 1 shows packets in the split while the authors define them as chunks. 
Suggest to change the "P" to "C1, C2 ... CN" in the figure to be accurate.

b. Running idnits suggests that there is a normative reference to RFC5810 but there is 
no explicit reference in the document.

c. Use spell checker tool. There are a few spell errors, e.g. s/tasls/tasks
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