1. A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing computer instructions, that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to perform a method for implementing a network interface in a computer network comprising: receiving one or more data packets encoded in a first communication protocol; decoding the data packets into a set of data objects wherein the data packets are decoded in accordance with a machine-readable set of protocol frame definitions containing one or more sub-fields for parsing of the data packets; and encoding the data objects into a second communication protocol wherein the data objects are encoded in accordance with the machine-readable set of protocol frame definitions.