@misc{rfc8459, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 8459, howpublished = {RFC 8459}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC8459}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8459}, author = {David Dolson and Shunsuke Homma and Diego Lopez and Mohamed Boucadair}, title = {{Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC)}}, pagetotal = 29, year = 2018, month = sep, abstract = {Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC) is a network architecture allowing an organization to decompose a large-scale network into multiple domains of administration. The goals of hSFC are to make a large-scale network easier to design, simpler to control, and supportive of independent functional groups within large network operators.}, }