Technical Summary
Traffic Engineered networks have a variety of mechanisms to
facilitate the separation of the data plane and control plane. They
also have a range of management and provisioning protocols to
configure and activate network resources. These mechanisms represent
key technologies for enabling flexible and dynamic networking. The
term "Traffic Engineered network" refers to a network that uses any
connection-oriented technology under the control of a distributed or
centralized control plane to support dynamic provisioning of end-to-
end connectivity.
Abstraction of network resources is a technique that can be applied
to a single network domain or across multiple domains to create a
single virtualized network that is under the control of a network
operator or the customer of the operator that actually owns
the network resources.
This document provides a framework for Abstraction and Control of
Traffic Engineered Networks (ACTN) to support virtual network
services and connectivity services.
Working Group Summary
This is part of the initial set of ACTN documents worked on by the
WG. There was considerable debate at various stages of the WG process
on the terminology used in the document and on the various
operations/functions that fit into the framework. The authors addressed
all of these concerns by adding relevant text to the document.
Document Quality
This document has been discussed and reviewed thoroughly by the WG.
While there have been no official statements on implementation of this
new framework, the authors are from multiple vendors, and implementation
is expected.
Personnel
Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Vishnu Pavan Beeram
Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard