A network slice offers connectivity services to a network slice
customer with specific Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service
Level Expectations (SLEs) over a common underlay network.
RFC 9543 describes a framework for network slices built using
networks that use IETF technologies. As part of that framework, the
Network Resource Partition (NRP) is introduced as a set of network
resources that are allocated from the underlay network to carry a
specific set of network slice service traffic and meet specific SLOs
and SLEs.
As the demand for network slices increases, scalability becomes an
important factor. Although the scalability of network slices can be
improved by mapping a group of network slices to a single NRP, that
design may not be suitable or possible for all deployments, thus
there are concerns about the scalability of NRPs themselves.
This document discusses some considerations for NRP scalability in
the control and data planes. It also investigates a set of
optimization mechanisms.
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