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EXPERIMENTAL

Authors:

D. Dolson
S. Homma
D. Lopez
M. Boucadair

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IETF

Source:

sfc (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8459

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Abstract

Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC) is a networkarchitecture allowing an organization to decompose a large-scalenetwork into multiple domains of administration.

The goals of hSFC are to make a large-scale network easier to design,simpler to control, and supportive of independent functional groupswithin large network operators.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.