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Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC)
RFC 8459

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2026-05-20
(System)
Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['Scalability', 'SFC-enabled domain', 'multiple control domains', 'SFC complexity', 'Hierarchy', 'service delivery', 'service complications', 'service offering', 'differentiated services', 'large scale network']' …
Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['Scalability', 'SFC-enabled domain', 'multiple control domains', 'SFC complexity', 'Hierarchy', 'service delivery', 'service complications', 'service offering', 'differentiated services', 'large scale network']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "M. Boucadair": changed name from "Mohamed Boucadair" to "M. Boucadair", cleared country (was "France"), changed order from "3" to "4"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "D. Lopez": changed name from "Diego Lopez" to "D. Lopez", cleared country (was "Spain"), changed order from "2" to "3"
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "S. Homma": changed name from "Shunsuke Homma" to "S. Homma", changed affiliation from "NTT, Corp." to "NTT", cleared country (was "Japan"), changed order …
Changed author "S. Homma": changed name from "Shunsuke Homma" to "S. Homma", changed affiliation from "NTT, Corp." to "NTT", cleared country (was "Japan"), changed order from "1" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "D. Dolson": changed name from "David Dolson" to "D. Dolson", cleared country (was "Canada"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2019-08-19
Gunter Van de Velde Closed request for Last Call review by OPSDIR with state 'Withdrawn'
2019-08-19
Gunter Van de Velde Assignment of request for Last Call review by OPSDIR to Jouni Korhonen was marked no-response
2018-12-19
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC) is a network architecture allowing an organization to decompose a large-scale …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to '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.')
2018-09-18
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8459, changed abstract to 'Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC) is a network architecture allowing an …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8459, changed abstract to 'Hierarchical Service Function Chaining (hSFC) is a network architecture allowing an organization to decompose a large-scale network into multiple domains of administration.', changed pages to 29, changed standardization level to Experimental, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2018-09-18, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2018-09-18
(System) RFC published