Cisco Technology, Inc.

Giuseppe Monterosso

Giovanni Meo

Massimiliano Ardica

Gianluca Mardente

Techniques and architecture are described for identifying objects, e.g., resources, across a federation in a network, and more particularly, to identifying objects, e.g., resources, across a federation of access networks, e.g., fabric networks, for extending access of the objects across the federation in a network. More particularly, the techniques and architecture provide for adding global tags to local resources within an access network, e.g., a fabric network. Once a resource has a global tag attached to it, this information is shared with all other fabrics. Each fabric can then build its own view of where global resources are located. A local resource with the same set of global tags may be seen as the same global resource across multiple fabrics. Simply changing global tags attached to a local resource allows for reclassifying local resources. No other configuration change is required.

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Giuseppe Monterosso