Standards

Historically, the meaning of an IP address has been to identify an interface on a network device.

The Internet Protocol (IP) has become the global standard in any computer network, independent of the connectivity to the Internet. Generally, an IP address is used to identify an interface on a

The forwarding of packets in today's networks has long evolved beyond ensuring mere reachability of the receiving endpoint.

The data model for network topologies defined in RFC 8345 introduces vertical layering relationships between networks that can be augmented to cover network and service topologies.

Network abstraction is a technique that can be applied to a network domain to obtain a view of potential connectivity across the network by utilizing a set of policies to select network resources

Network Slicing (NS) is an integral part of Service Provider networks. The IETF has produced several YANG data models to support the Software-Defined Networking and network slice architecture a

This document describes network slicing in the context of networks built from IETF technologies.

NO LONGER ACTIVE DRAFT - This document defines a YANG data model for representing an abstract view of the provider network topology that contains Intermediate System to intermediate System (I

NO LONGER ACTIVE DRAFT - RFC 8519 defines a YANG data model for Access Control Lists (ACLs).

This document describes the principles of traffic engineering (TE) in the Internet.