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A key piece of information maintained by a control plane is the network state. The control plane must aggregate this information, and make it available to its applications. Additionally, in order to maintain extensibility and component reuse, applications ahouls should be shielded from protocol-specifics, even if network state information is acquired through protocol-specific means.
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