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

[adamv0025 at netconsultings.com]

> sthaug at nethelp.no
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:42 PM
> 
> >>> 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.
> 
How I view MEF is in their role of facilitator/mediator for inter-operator
standards. 
Their original work on Metro Ethernet standards and network certification
was very helpful for the industry (certainly some ~8 years back when ME was
blooming and everyone was jumping the bandwagon).
Now with the hype around SDN NFV and automation of service provisioning they
seem like a natural choice of existing body for mediating
inter-operator/provider standards (work on LSO...) they have stellar
materials on NFV and SDN I recommend everyone to read in order to fill in
the gaps and unite our dictionary (same like for the ME dictionary)
And recently they are doing similar thing for SD-WAN...    

adam