System and method for translating application program network service requests into actions and performing those actions through the management and/or control plane responsive to previously defined policies and previous requests by the same or another application program

An interface operable to interconnect an application program to a communication network, the communication network having management plane functions, control plane functions and data plane functions, the interface comprising:

• a processor;
• a non-transitory storage medium carrying processor-readable instructions, the instructions executable by the processor to provide:
• a virtualization layer logic operable
• to present network information to the application program using a predetermined name that is known within a name scope of the application program, wherein the name identifies a resource within the communications network to the application program, to translate network service requests from the application into specific actions performable by at least one of the management plane functions and the control plane functions of the communication network, and to provide event reporting to the application program that is specific to data packets associated with the application program, the event reporting describing the processing of the data packets associated with the application program using the name known within the name scope of the application program;
• and
• at least one set of socket logic operable to support communication by the application program over the data plane functions of the communication network.