@techreport{ietf-6man-enhanced-vpn-vtn-id-07,
    number =    {draft-ietf-6man-enhanced-vpn-vtn-id-07},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-enhanced-vpn-vtn-id/07/},
    author =    {Jie Dong and Zhenbin Li and Chongfeng Xie and Chenhao Ma and Gyan Mishra},
    title =     {{Carrying Network Resource Partition (NRP) Information in IPv6 Extension Header}},
    pagetotal = 12,
    year =      2024,
    month =     jul,
    day =       8,
    abstract =  {Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide different customers with logically separated connectivity over a common network infrastructure. With the introduction and evolvement of 5G and also in some existing network scenarios, some customers may require network connectivity services with advanced features comparing to conventional VPN services. Such kind of network service is called enhanced VPNs. Enhanced VPNs can be used, for example, to deliver network slice services. A Network Resource Partition (NRP) is a subset of the network resources and associated policies on each of a connected set of links in the underlay network. An NRP could be used as the underlay to support one or a group of enhanced VPN services. For packet forwarding in a specific NRP, some fields in the data packet are used to identify the NRP the packet belongs to, so that NRP-specific processing can be performed on each node along a path in the NRP. This document specifies a new IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option to carry the NRP related information in data packets, which could be used to identify the NRP-specific processing to be performed on the packets by each network node along a network path in the NRP.},
}