{
  "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": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "29",
  "pub_status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "source": "Service Function Chaining",
  "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\n The 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.",
  "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
}