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

[Alastair Johnson]

> On Mar 26, 2020, at 8:28 AM, "tim at pelican.org" <tim at pelican.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 26 March, 2020 15:15, sthaug at nethelp.no said:
> 
>>> 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?

Yes - MEF is now just “MEF Forum”. The Metro Ethernet expansion went away a few years ago as there was some scope increase to cover more technologies than Ethernet. 

AJ
- co-editor of MEF70.x, the document that was referenced in the thread.