@techreport{li-apn6-framework-00,
    number =    {draft-li-apn6-framework-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-apn6-framework/00/},
    author =    {Zhenbin Li and Shuping Peng and Daniel Voyer and Chongfeng Xie and Peng Liu and Chang Liu and Kentaro Ebisawa and Stefano Previdi and Jim Guichard},
    title =     {{Application-aware IPv6 Networking (APN6) Framework}},
    pagetotal = 12,
    year =      2019,
    month =     nov,
    day =       3,
    abstract =  {A multitude of applications are carried over the network, which have varying needs for network bandwidth, latency, jitter, and packet loss, etc. Some new emerging applications (e.g. 5G) have very demanding performance requirements. However, in current networks, the network and applications are decoupled, that is, the network is not aware of the applications' requirements in a fine granularity. Therefore, it is difficult to provide truly fine-granularity traffic operations for the applications and guarantee their SLA requirements. This document proposes a new framework, named Application-aware IPv6 Networking (APN6), which makes use of IPv6 encapsulation to convey the application characteristic information such as application identification and its network performance requirements into the network to facilitate service provisioning, perform application-level traffic steering and network resource adjustment.},
}