Re: [sfc] Document Action: 'Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC)' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-sfc-hierarchical-11.txt)

["Joel M. Halpern" <[e-mail]>]

Congratulations to the working group and those who worked on the 
document.  My thanks to the authors and shepherd for seeing this through 
with very good responsiveness to the questions as they were raised.

Yours,
Joel

On 6/26/18 9:33 AM, The IESG wrote:
> The IESG has approved the following document:
> - 'Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC)'
>    (draft-ietf-sfc-hierarchical-11.txt) as Informational RFC
> 
> This document is the product of the Service Function Chaining Working Group.
> 
> The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Deborah Brungard and Martin
> Vigoureux.
> 
> A URL of this Internet Draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sfc-hierarchical/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Technical Summary
> 
>     Instead of considering a single SFC control plane that can manage
>     complete service paths from one end of the network
>     to the other, the document adopts an approach that decomposes
>     large networks into smaller domains operated
>     by as many SFC sub-domains (under the same administrative entity).
> 
>     This approach is called: Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC)
> 
>     The goals of hSFC are to make a large-scale network easier to reason
>     about, simpler to control and to support independent functional
>     groups within large network operators.
> 
> Working Group Summary
> 
>     Two WGLCs were made for this document. The second one was mainly to confirm that the comments
>     raised during the first call are well addressed.
>     
>     There seems to be consensus in the working group that the document is ready for publication.
> 
> Document Quality
> 
>     The Document intended status is Informational.
>     There is no known implementation.
> 
> Personnel
> 
>     Behcet Sarikaya is the Document Shepherd
>     Martin Vigoureux is the Responsible AD
> 
>