@misc{rfc8453,
    series =    {Request for Comments},
    number =    8453,
    howpublished =  {RFC 8453},
    publisher = {RFC Editor},
    doi =       {10.17487/RFC8453},
    url =       {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8453},
    author =    {Daniele Ceccarelli and Young Lee},
    title =     {{Framework for Abstraction and Control of TE Networks (ACTN)}},
    pagetotal = 42,
    year =      2018,
    month =     aug,
    abstract =  {Traffic Engineered (TE) 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 TE Networks (ACTN) to support virtual network services and connectivity services.},
}