Subject: [sfc] FW: New Version Notification for draft-kumar-sfc-offloads-03.txt

From: "Surendra Kumar (smkumar)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:14:53 +0000

Hello All,

We have updated the SFC Offloads draft with additional capabilities based on the feedback received.

In particular, the following simple offloads are addressed:
1. Bidirectional Offloads
2. Unidirectional Offloads
3. Offloads with TCP control packet exception 
4. Time limited offloads
5. Volume limited offloads

Dear Chairs,

We believe this draft has received good discussion and support. It is at its fifth revision with extensive WG feedback. It was presented twice at IETF meetings.

We request WG adoption of this draft and a slot in the upcoming meeting to present the changes.

Regards,
Surendra.

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Subject: New Version Notification for draft-kumar-sfc-offloads-03.txt

A new version of I-D, draft-kumar-sfc-offloads-03.txt has been successfully submitted by Surendra Kumar and posted to the IETF repository.

Name:		draft-kumar-sfc-offloads
Revision:	03
Title:		Service Function Simple Offloads
Document date:	2016-10-20
Group:		Individual Submission
Pages:		17
URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kumar-sfc-offloads-03.txt
Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kumar-sfc-offloads/
Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kumar-sfc-offloads-03
Diff:           https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-kumar-sfc-offloads-03

Abstract:
   Service Function Chaining (SFC) enables services to be delivered by
   selective traffic steering through an ordered set of service
   functions.  Once classified into an SFC, the traffic for a given flow
   is steered through all the service functions of the SFC for the life
   of the traffic flow even though this is often not necessary.
   Steering traffic to service functions only while required and not
   otherwise, leads to shorter SFC forwarding paths with improved
   latencies, reduced resource consumption and better user experience.

   This document describes the rationale, techniques and necessary
   protocol extensions to achieve such optimization, with focus on one
   such technique termed "simple offloads".

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