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Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (cats)

Document Date Status IPR AD/Shepherd
Active Internet-Drafts (3 hits)
30 pages
draft-ietf-cats-data-model-00
Data Model for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)
2026-09-23
I-D Exists
WG Document
Review: yangdoctors Early
Nov 2027

52 pages 2026-09-29
New
I-D Exists
WG Document
Reviews: opsdir Early secdir Early perfmetrdir Early rtgdir Early
Mar 2025, Mar 2026
1
15 pages
draft-ietf-cats-oam-fw-01
Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Framework
2026-07-21
I-D Exists
WG Document : Proposed Standard
Mar 2027
1
RFCs (2 hits)
27 pages
RFC 10053
A Framework for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)
2026-10
New
Informational RFC
Jim Guichard
28 pages
RFC 10054
Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Problem Statement, Use Cases, and Requirements
2026-10
New
Informational RFC
Jim Guichard
Related Internet-Drafts and RFCs (32 hits)
14 pages
draft-bernardos-cats-anchoring-aiml-selection-01
AI/ML-Enabled Computing Aware Traffic Steering using IP address anchoring
2026-09-17
I-D Exists

12 pages
draft-bernardos-cats-anchoring-service-mobility-05
Service Mobility-Enabled Computing Aware Traffic Steering using IP address anchoring
2026-09-17
I-D Exists

12 pages
draft-bernardos-cats-anchoring-site-mobility-01
Site Mobility-Enabled Computing Aware Traffic Steering using IP address anchoring
2026-04-16
Expires soon
I-D Exists

12 pages
draft-bernardos-cats-anchoring-terminal-mobility-02
Terminal Mobility-Enabled Computing Aware Traffic Steering using IP address anchoring
2026-09-17
I-D Exists

18 pages
draft-bernardos-cats-ip-address-anchoring-05
Computing Aware Traffic Steering using IP address anchoring
2026-09-17
I-D Exists

2 pages
draft-dikshit-cats-oam-usecases-00
Use Cases and Requirements for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)
2026-07-31
I-D Exists

17 pages
draft-dunbar-cats-5g-metadata-applicability-01
BGP Edge Metadata Path Applicability
2026-06-05
I-D Exists

10 pages
draft-ftzhswj-cats-northbound-api-00
Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Northbound Interface (NBI) Specification
2026-05-29
I-D Exists

11 pages
draft-jaehwoon-cats-mobility-04
Network-based mobility management in CATS network environment
2026-05-10
I-D Exists

11 pages
draft-lbdd-cats-dp-sr-07
Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Using Segment Routing
2026-04-14
Expires soon
I-D Exists

15 pages
draft-lcmw-cats-midhaul-04
Compute-Aware Traffic Steering for Midhaul Networks
2026-07-06
I-D Exists

6 pages
draft-li-cats-aisemantic-contract-01
Semantic-Driven Traffic Shaping Contract for AI Networks
2026-08-30
I-D Exists

25 pages
draft-li-cats-idn-01
A Framework of Intelligence Delivery Network (IDN) for Deep Learning Inference
2026-08-26
I-D Exists

6 pages
draft-li-cats-intellinode-network-scheduling-01
IntelliNode: In-Network Intelligent Scheduling Extensions for CATS
2026-08-30
I-D Exists

6 pages
draft-li-cats-kv-cache-distribution-00
KV Cache Distribution for Distributed LLM Inference: Use Case and Requirements
2026-07-04
I-D Exists

13 pages
draft-li-cats-task-segmentation-framework-02
A Task Segmentation Framework for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering
2026-07-20
I-D Exists

19 pages
draft-luan-cats-catpts-01
A Timescale-Aware Framework for Compute-Aware Task Placement and Traffic Steering in Heterogeneous Geo-Distributed Computing Networks
2026-08-28
I-D Exists

45 pages
draft-mo-cats-agent-selection-mapping-00
A Selection Mapping Framework for AI Agent Services in Computing-Aware Traffic Steering
2026-09-29
New
I-D Exists

27 pages
draft-mo-cats-agent-service-characteristics-00
AI Agent Service Characteristics and Their Implications for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering
2026-09-28
New
I-D Exists

48 pages
draft-mo-cats-agent-state-affinity-00
State, Storage, and Compute Affinity for AI Agent Service Selection in Computing-Aware Traffic Steering
2026-10-05
New
I-D Exists

7 pages
draft-pang-cats-fallback-decision-framework-00
CATS Fallback Decision Framework
2026-07-06
I-D Exists

8 pages
draft-wang-cats-green-challenges-08
Green Challenges in Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)
2026-07-06
I-D Exists

32 pages
draft-wang-cats-odsi-01
An Architecture for Open, Decentralized, and Scalable Large Language Model Inference
2026-08-27
I-D Exists

22 pages
draft-yxl-cats-protocols-applicability-01
Protocols Applicability for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)
2026-07-02
I-D Exists
Oct 2026, Oct 2027

25 pages
draft-zhang-cats-clients-request-packet-01
Carriage of CATS Service Identification and Request Constraints
2026-09-20
I-D Exists

17 pages
draft-zhangb-cats-cmas-06
Public Service Platform for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)
2026-08-18
I-D Exists

25 pages
draft-zhangb-cats-csma-implementation-01
CATS Service Metric Agent (C-SMA) Functional Implementation
2026-10-07
New
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21 pages
draft-zhangb-cats-sci-implementation-01
CATS Service Contact Instance Functional Implementation
2026-09-18
I-D Exists

31 pages
draft-zhangb-cats-service-metric-registry-entries-00
CATS Computing Service Metric Registry Entries
2026-08-23
I-D Exists

38 pages
draft-zhangb-cats-service-metrics-op-06
Computing Service Metrics Operation and Joint Service Selection under CATS
2026-10-10
New
I-D Exists

26 pages
draft-zhao-cats-otn-applicability-03
Framework and Applicability of Computation-aware Traffic Steering (CATS) in Optical Transport Networks (OTN)
2026-09-24
I-D Exists

17 pages
draft-zhu-cats-metric-semantics-01
Operational Semantics for CATS Metric Consumption
2026-08-29
I-D Exists