@techreport{ietf-spring-resource-aware-segments-18, number = {draft-ietf-spring-resource-aware-segments-18}, 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-spring-resource-aware-segments/18/}, author = {Jie Dong and Takuya Miyasaka and Yongqing Zhu and Fengwei Qin and Zhenqiang Li}, title = {{Introducing Resource Awareness to SR Segments}}, pagetotal = 20, year = 2026, month = may, day = 14, abstract = {This document describes a mechanism to allocate network resources to one or a set of Segment Routing Identifiers (SIDs). Such SIDs are referred to as resource-aware SIDs. The resource-aware SIDs retain their original forwarding semantics, with the additional semantics to identify the set of network resources available for the packet processing and forwarding action. The proposed mechanism is applicable to both segment routing with MPLS data plane (SR-MPLS) and segment routing with IPv6 data plane (SRv6).}, }