ed. It is an object of the invention to provide a system and method providing functionality for enabling a General Purpose Processor (GPP) that is acting as a Control Point processor (CP) in a network environment to define and control the overall behavior of a Network Processor (NP). It is a further object of the invention to provide a method providing functionality for enabling a General Purpose Processor (GPP) that is acting as a Control Point processor (CP) in a network environment to define and control the overall behavior of a Network Processor (NP)