@misc{rfc8597,
    series =    {Request for Comments},
    number =    8597,
    howpublished =  {RFC 8597},
    publisher = {RFC Editor},
    doi =       {10.17487/RFC8597},
    url =       {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8597},
    author =    {Luis M. Contreras and Carlos J. Bernardos and Diego Lopez and Mohamed Boucadair and Paola Iovanna},
    title =     {{Cooperating Layered Architecture for Software-Defined Networking (CLAS)}},
    pagetotal = 21,
    year =      2019,
    month =     may,
    abstract =  {Software-Defined Networking (SDN) advocates for the separation of the control plane from the data plane in the network nodes and its logical centralization on one or a set of control entities. Most of the network and/or service intelligence is moved to these control entities. Typically, such an entity is seen as a compendium of interacting control functions in a vertical, tightly integrated fashion. The relocation of the control functions from a number of distributed network nodes to a logical central entity conceptually places together a number of control capabilities with different purposes. As a consequence, the existing solutions do not provide a clear separation between transport control and services that rely upon transport capabilities. This document describes an approach called Cooperating Layered Architecture for Software-Defined Networking (CLAS), wherein the control functions associated with transport are differentiated from those related to services in such a way that they can be provided and maintained independently and can follow their own evolution path.},
}