[c-nsp] [External] SDx open standard?

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

>>> I spent 10 min browsing MEF web site and still do not know what "MEF"
>>> stands for ... Looks to me like yet one more  commercial entity to drain a
>>> little bit of cash out of the vendors while perhaps help with marketing and
>>> sales a bit.
>> 
>> Metro Ethernet Forum. They've been around for a while.
>> 
> 
> In fairness, that term is almost entirely absent from the web site, as far as I can see.
> 
> Is it an expansion that's been deliberately dropped in the face of expanding to work on SDN, NDV, et al beyond their original Metro Ethernet scope?  And now MEF is just MEF?

No idea. But it sure *sounds* like rather significant scope creep.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no