[mpls] Reference Augmented Forwarding - MPLS RAF

Robert Raszuk <rraszuk@gmail.com> Mon, 25 April 2022 20:34 UTC

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Subject: [mpls] Reference Augmented Forwarding - MPLS RAF
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Dear WG,

As we have discussed on the list I am posting a description of an
alternative architectural approach on how MPLS data plane can be
enhanced/extended to support execution of arbitrary network actions as well
as support network programming with minimal extensions to label stack
encoding.

Comments, questions and contributions all very welcome.

Kind regards,
Robert

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To: Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net>

A new version of I-D, draft-raszuk-mpls-raf-fwk-00.txt
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Name:           draft-raszuk-mpls-raf-fwk
Revision:       00
Title:          Framework of MPLS Reference Augmented Forwarding
Document date:  2022-04-25
Group:          Individual Submission
Pages:          8
URL:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-raszuk-mpls-raf-fwk-00.txt
Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-raszuk-mpls-raf-fwk/
Htmlized:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-raszuk-mpls-raf-fwk

Abstract:
   This document specifies an architectural framework for enabling MPLS
   based forwarding with optional reference based packet processing in
   transit network elements.

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