Network Service Header
Jim Guichard, Brad McConnell, Pankaj Kumar Garg, Chris F. Wright, David Melman, Joel Martin Halpern, Uri Elzur, Michael Smith, Kevin Glavin, Abhishek Chauhan, Paul Quinn, Rajeev Manur, Sumandra Majee, Puneet Agarwal, Thomas D. Nadeau, Surendra Kumar, Wim Henderickx · 2015
This draft describes a Network Service Header (NSH) inserted onto encapsulated packets or frames to realize service function paths. NSH also provides a mechanism for metadata exchange along the instantiated service path.