{"draft":"draft-ietf-sfc-hierarchical-11","doc_id":"RFC8459","title":"Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC)","authors":["D. Dolson","S. Homma","D. Lopez","M. Boucadair"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"29","pub_status":"EXPERIMENTAL","status":"EXPERIMENTAL","source":"Service Function Chaining","abstract":"Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC) is a network\r\narchitecture allowing an organization to decompose a large-scale\r\nnetwork into multiple domains of administration.\r\n\r\nThe goals of hSFC are to make a large-scale network easier to design,\r\nsimpler to control, and supportive of independent functional groups\r\nwithin large network operators.","pub_date":"September 2018","keywords":["Scalability","SFC-enabled domain","multiple control domains","SFC complexity","Hierarchy","service delivery","service complications","service offering","differentiated services","large scale network"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8459","errata_url":null}