A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Service Function Chaining Working Group of the IETF. Title : Service Function Chaining Problem Statement Authors : Paul Quinn Thomas Nadeau Filename : draft-ietf-sfc-problem-statement-00.txt Pages : 18 Date : 2014-01-29 Abstract: This document provides an overview of the issues associated with the deployment of service functions (such as firewalls, load balancers) in large-scale environments. The term service function chaining is used to describe the definition and instantiation of an ordered set of such service functions, and the subsequent "steering" of traffic flows through those service functions. The set of enabled service function chains reflect operator service offerings and is designed in conjunction with application delivery and service and network policy. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sfc-problem-statement/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sfc-problem-statement-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt