Intent family can be used to group a set of related Network Intents, and the newly enhanced NIC can replicate all the Intents in the NI family together across entire network. A user can define one or multiple Child NIs (create a new NI or import from existing NIs) for a NI. This parent NI is also called Home NI. A child NI can have its own Child NIs. The Home NI and its child NIs form an Intent family tree. Intent Family Tree consists of Home NI and multiple Child NIs.