--- Wednesday 18 July 2018, 1520-1650, Room Duluth --- * Welcome and administrivia ~ 5 min + Scribe(s) and notetaker(s) + Agenda bashing + RG announcements * 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 In this presentation, we will describe why auto-discovery mechanisms in the NFV MANO stack are needed, by first looking at examples of such mechanisms. Then we will focus on of them: the discovery of VIMs from NFVOs and will describe an example of how to do that, based on IPv6. * 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) + Network Slicing Roles and Interfacing in NFV systems (P. Martinez-Julia, NICT) Slicing physical and virtual resources in NFV is essential for exploiting their capabilities. This presentation discusses two technical points of view of NS applied to NFV and the minimum functional roles involved in such scheme and their interactions. + NFV Gateway Function for Network Slicing (S. Homma, NTT) Network slicing is an approach to create separate virtual networks depending on service requirements, and network slices are deployed with SDN and NFV technologies. This presentation discusses functionalites on data-plane for network slicing and the interaction with management-plane.