The ForCES meeting at IETF 54 marked the successful completion
of the last call period for the Netlink Informational draft and
the ForCES Requirements draft. The Netlink draft was forwarded
to the IESG and the Requirements draft will proceed to the IESG
after an editorial revision is posted.  Changes to the ForCES
framework where discussed and the chairs noted that this
document is maturing and may last call soon. An early draft
individual contribution of a model document was presented and
will be further refined by the authors before being submitted
for consideration as a working group document.