{
  "number": 8459,
  "title": "Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC)",
  "authors": [
    "D. Dolson",
    "S. Homma",
    "D. Lopez",
    "M. Boucadair"
  ],
  "published": "2018-09",
  "status": "Experimental",
  "stream": "IETF",
  "area": "rtg",
  "working_group": "sfc",
  "pages": 29,
  "formats": [
    "TXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "abstract": "Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC) is a network architecture allowing an organization to decompose a large-scale network into multiple domains of administration.\n\nThe goals of hSFC are to make a large-scale network easier to design, simpler to control, and supportive of independent functional groups within large network operators.",
  "keywords": [
    "Scalability",
    "SFC-enabled domain",
    "multiple control domains",
    "SFC complexity",
    "Hierarchy",
    "service delivery",
    "service complications",
    "service offering",
    "differentiated services",
    "large scale network"
  ],
  "draft": "draft-ietf-sfc-hierarchical-11",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC8459",
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc8459/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc8459.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8459",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8459/"
  },
  "text_modified": "2018-09-19T00:16:56Z"
}