Active Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) for Service Function Chaining (SFC)
draft-ietf-sfc-multi-layer-oam-28

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Active OAM for Service Function Chaining (SFC)' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-sfc-multi-layer-oam-28.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Active OAM for Service Function Chaining (SFC)'
  (draft-ietf-sfc-multi-layer-oam-28.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Service Function Chaining Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Jim Guichard, Andrew Alston and John Scudder.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sfc-multi-layer-oam/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   A set of requirements for active Operation, Administration, and
   Maintenance (OAM) of Service Function Chains (SFCs) in a network is
   presented in this document.  Based on these requirements, an
   encapsulation of active OAM messages in SFC and a mechanism to detect
   and localize defects are described.

Working Group Summary

   Document had broad consensus and is the result of the merger of 3 documents, all of which had substantial review

Document Quality

  No known implementations of this currently exist.  All in all I found the document to be readable, and the
  authors have addressed the issues that were found.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Donald E. Eastlake 3rd. The
   Responsible Area Director is Andrew Alston.

RFC Editor Note