Subject: Protocol Action: 'Service Function Chaining: Subscriber and Performance Policy Identification Variable-Length Network Service Header (NSH) Context Headers' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-sfc-serviceid-header-14.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:03:27 -0800

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Service Function Chaining: Subscriber and Performance Policy
   Identification Variable-Length Network Service Header (NSH) Context
   Headers'
  (draft-ietf-sfc-serviceid-header-14.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Service Function Chaining Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Deborah Brungard and Martin
Vigoureux.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sfc-serviceid-header/

Technical Summary

   This document defines Subscriber and Performance Policy Identifiers
   Network Service Header Variable-Length Context Headers to inform
   Service Functions about subscriber- and service-related information
   for the sake of policy enforcement and appropriate service function
   chaining operations.  The structure of each context header is
   defined; their use and processing instructions by SFC-aware nodes are
   explained.

Working Group Summary

The draft was first submitted in September 2015, has been reviewed by a reasonable 
number of people in the SFC working group, which is reflected in the Acknowledgment
section. Publication of the draft received a fair number of supporters
and no objections from the working group.

No IPR disclosures have been filed that reference this document at any time. All authors
have stated that none of them is aware of any IPR related to the draft.

The working group is solidly behind this document.

Document Quality

The current version of the draft is clear, seems to have resolved all the 
issues, and has the consensus of the working group.

Personnel

The Document Shepherd for this document is Greg Mirsky
The Responsible Area Director is Martin Vigoureux