The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Framework for Abstraction and Control of Traffic Engineered Networks' (draft-ietf-teas-actn-framework-15.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Martin Vigoureux and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-actn-framework/ Technical Summary Traffic Engineered networks have a variety of mechanisms to facilitate the separation of the data plane and control plane. They also have a range of management and provisioning protocols to configure and activate network resources. These mechanisms represent key technologies for enabling flexible and dynamic networking. The term "Traffic Engineered network" refers to a network that uses any connection-oriented technology under the control of a distributed or centralized control plane to support dynamic provisioning of end-to- end connectivity. Abstraction of network resources is a technique that can be applied to a single network domain or across multiple domains to create a single virtualized network that is under the control of a network operator or the customer of the operator that actually owns the network resources. This document provides a framework for Abstraction and Control of Traffic Engineered Networks (ACTN) to support virtual network services and connectivity services. Working Group Summary This is part of the initial set of ACTN documents worked on by the WG. There was considerable debate at various stages of the WG process on the terminology used in the document and on the various operations/functions that fit into the framework. The authors addressed all of these concerns by adding relevant text to the document. Document Quality This document has been discussed and reviewed thoroughly by the WG. While there have been no official statements on implementation of this new framework, the authors are from multiple vendors, and implementation is expected. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Vishnu Pavan Beeram Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
