The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Framework for Network Slices in Networks Built from IETF Technologies' (draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices-25.txt) as Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jim Guichard, Andrew Alston and John Scudder. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices/ Technical Summary This document describes network slicing in the context of networks built from IETF technologies. It defines the term "IETF Network Slice" and establishes the general principles of network slicing in the IETF context. The document discusses the general framework for requesting and operating IETF Network Slices, the characteristics of an IETF Network Slice, the necessary system components and interfaces, and how abstract requests can be mapped to more specific technologies. The document also discusses related considerations with monitoring and security. This document also provides definitions of related terms to enable consistent usage in other IETF documents that describe or use aspects of IETF Network Slices. Working Group Summary The shepherd sez: "There was broad agreement in the WG to progress this document" and "There was no controversy. However, there were rough consensus calls made on a few items after considerable amount of healthy debate and discussion in the WG." It may be worth noting that "The document is a result of merging two documents that were put together by a large design team (appointed by WG chairs)", I imagine that may relate to the "rough consensus calls". Document Quality The shepherd sez: "This document does not propose any protocol extensions. It is an informational document that discusses the framework for requesting and operating IETF Network Slices. There are no existing implementations of this framework reported in the document. There are some solution documents (which are being discussed in the WG) that adhere to the framework discussed in this document -- these solutions are being driven by several vendors/operators and are expected to eventually get implemented in some form." Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Vishnu Pavan Beeram. The Responsible Area Director is John Scudder. RFC Editor Note Please update John Drake’s information as je_dr...@yahoo.com, affiliation 'individual'. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce