Liaison statement
Liaison about Publication of Standard MEF 84 Network Slice Service and Attributes

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State Posted
Submitted Date 2021-11-11
From Group MEF
From Contact MEF Liaison
To Group IETF
To Contacts The IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org>
Cc Raghu Ranganathan <rraghu@ciena.com>
The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
The IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org>
Response Contact nan@mef.net
Purpose For information
Attachments LS00319_001_Liaison on Publication of MEF 84 Network Slice Service and Attributes_Kearns
Body 
We would like to inform you about the publication of Standard MEF 84 Network
Slice Service and Attributes.

This standard specifies Network Slicing in the context of MEF Lifecycle Service
Orchestration (LSO) and MEF Services. Key concepts of Network Slicing, Network
Slices and Network Services are described. Network Services as defined in this
Standard enables Service Providers to offer Network Slices in the Service
Provider domain as Services to Subscribers in the Customer domain. The focus is
on the Subscriber visible aspects of the Service Provider’s internal Network
Slices.

MEF Standards are available at:
https://www.mef.net/learn/mef-technical-standards-sdks/

The forthcoming MEF meeting will be held 24–27 January 2022.