File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

R. Hancock
G. Karagiannis
J. Loughney
S. Van den Bosch

Stream:

IETF

Source:

nsis (tsv)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4080

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Abstract

The Next Steps in Signaling (NSIS) working group is considering protocols for signaling information about a data flow along its path in the network. The NSIS suite of protocols is envisioned to support various signaling applications that need to install and/or manipulate such state in the network. Based on existing work on signaling requirements, this document proposes an architectural framework for these signaling protocols.

This document provides a model for the network entities that take part in such signaling, and for the relationship between signaling and the rest of network operation. We decompose the overall signaling protocol suite into a generic (lower) layer, with separate upper layers for each specific signaling application. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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