--- Wednesday 18 July 2018, 1520-1650, Room Duluth --- * Welcome and administrivia ~ 5 min + Scribe(s) and notetaker(s) + Agenda bashing + RG announcements (interim? draft-bernardos-nfvrg-vim-discovery? more?) * Update on current and proposed drafts ~ 10 min + draft-aranda-nfvrg-recursive-vnf (P. Aranda, IMDEA Networks) * Discovery Mechanisms in the MANO Stack (C. Bernardos, UC3M) ~ 20 min * NFV research challenges related to network slicing ~ 55 min + NFV Slicing problems & gap analysis (A. Galis, University College London) + NFV Slicing frameworks (L. Geng, ChinaMobile) + NFV slicing roles and interfacing (P. Martinez-Julia, NICT) + NFV Gateway Function for Network Slicing (S. Homma, NTT)