Join us in Atlanta for our first Interim Members Meeting of 2025!  

The Interim Members Meeting will focus on cross-project work, planning, and coordination. Topic oriented sessions will combine committees in sessions designed to allow members to contribute to the projects related to their business.

Activities for the Week

Tuesday, 11 February we will host combined committee sessions to discuss details on cross-committee topics (projects that affect work in other committees), certification planning, and rules and procedures updates.

Wednesday, 12 February and Thursday, 13 February Two tracks each day will facilitate detailed discussions between two committees on continuity of work between them in different areas including NaaS, cybersecurity, L1-L3 connectivity, and LSO automation.

The Interim Members Meeting will center around three key areas:

  • Re-orienting member work around topic areas rather than siloing them in each committee.
  • Maximizing coordination between committees on work that can impact other committees' work.
  • Identifying where gaps exist and need to be addressed in the 'development lifecycle' of a given work area.

Who Attends

  • Committee chairs, project leaders, top subject matter experts and MEF senior staff
  • Commercial, product, and technical contributors from service, cloud and technology providers, aggregators, systems integrators

Why Attend

  • Influence the direction and accelerate progress of work that impacts your company's strategic plans.
  • Bring yourself up to speed on MEF work that can impact your company's future revenues and network with the relevant subject matter experts and other leading networking industry professionals in the work areas of interest to your company.
  • Maximize the opportunities of your company to position itself as an industry, global, and regional leader by familiarizing yourself with the various MEF programs like certification, marketing, and NaaS federation.

Summary of Discussions and Work

  • NaaS
    • Six attributes of NaaS and extended features of NaaS
    • NaaS certification framework
    • NaaS Federation
    • Service Access Interface
  • Cybersecurity
    • SASE
    • SD-WAN
    • SSE
    • ZTNA
    • Certification of SASE
    • Horizontal integration
  • Carrier Ethernet over Broadband
    • Service attributes of Carrier Ethernet over Broadband
    • Standardized LSO Access E-Line over Broadband product
    • Certification of Carrier Ethernet over Broadband service and Access E-Line over Broadband product
  • Internet Access
    • Standardized Internet Access product
    • Certification of Internet Access
  • Carrier Ethernet
    • New performance tiers
  • Wavelength services
    • Standardized wavelength products
    • Certification of wavelength services
  • Cross connects
    • Standardized ordering
  • Edge compute
    • Standardized ordering
  • LSO Business functions
    • Location identity service
    • Enhanced address validation
    • LSO Adapter solution
    • Alignment of data models from order to billing
    • LSO API certification
    • API legal agreement template
    • Rated ordering using smart contracts
  • LSO Operational functions
    • Service Function Testing
    • Performance Monitoring
    • Fault Management
  • Service Level Agreements
    • Automated SLA Reporting service
    • Standardized SLA terminology and terms
  • Notification services for enterprises
    • CIM (Circuit Impairment and Maintenance)
    • CSA (Cybersecurity Alerts)
    • Certification of notification services

Meeting Registration

Hyatt Centric Buckhead Atlanta

3301 Lenox Square Parkway, NE
Atlanta, GA 30326
hyattcentricbuckheadatlanta.com

+1 470 763 4383 

MEF Rate $199+ taxes includes breakfast & Wi-Fi

Book your room by January 20, 2025

 

All reservations must be guaranteed with a credit card upon registration. Guest credit card will not be charged until day of check-in.   

Hotel cancellation policy is 48 hours prior to arrival to avoid a penalty fee of one nights' room and tax.

Need Travel Approval?

Need assistance with travel justification? MEF can provide support; please contact Lori Vachon, events@mef.net with your requirements.

Wiki & WiFi Access and Assistance

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Committee meetings will be conducted face-to-face with Zoom and recordings for remote attendees. Attendee links will be found on the committee agenda pages closer to the meeting date, along with ICS files to add to your calendar.

WiFi access: SSID: mefforum password: mefforum


Meeting Agenda  | See Links Below (all times are in EDT- Eastern/New York)

Tue 11 February

Sessions (All on the same Zoom, see below)

07:30-8:30Breakfast in Restaurant
08:30-10:15

All Hands Joint Committee Working Session (CBC, DSC, LSOC and TCC), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

PPTX (Combined) | PDF (Combined)

  • General (45 mins)
    • Kevin Vachon Nan Chen
      • Week at a glance
      • Journey to NaaS and keys to success
      • Ecosystem expansion
      • Integrating member and staff functions
      • New meeting format plan and plans for London and GNE
      • New MEF branding project
    • Cross-committee coordination Daniel Bar-Lev 
    • Rules and procedures Tom Dickson 
  • NaaS Framework part 1 (60 mins)
    • Current NaaS work status (e.g., NaaS Customer Experience; NaaS Federation; NaaS Certification framework; NaaS Blueprint) Daniel Bar-Lev 
    • NaaS attributes and their correlation to existing/past committee work (e.g., LSO Reference Architecture; LSO APIs; LSO Products; etc.) Daniel Bar-Lev Karthik Sethuraman 
10:15-10:45Break
10:45-12:30

All Hands Joint Committee Working Session (CBC, DSC, LSOC and TCC), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

  • NaaS Framework part 2 (75 mins)
    • Methodology for LSO Products spanning all four committees (e.g., Access E-Line; Subscriber Ethernet; Wavelength; SD-WAN; cross connects, etc.) Daniel Bar-Lev Michał Łączyński Jack Pugaczewski
    • Discussion of any member proposals for additional supporting committee work (e.g. vision, definition, NaaS maturity index, location identity/address validation; smart contracts etc.) Daniel Bar-Lev 
  • LSO APIs (30 mins)
12:30-13:30Lunch in Hotel Restaurant (Floor 1)
13:30-15:15

All Hands Joint Committee Working Session (CBC, DSC, LSOC and TCC), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

15:15-15:45

Break

15:45-17:30

All Hands Joint Committee Working Session (CBC, DSC, LSOC and TCC), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

17:30-18:30Welcome Reception 15th Floor Rooftop Bar

Wed 12 February  

Sessions – Each room has a Zoom, see below

07:30-8:30Breakfast in Restaurant (Floor 1)
08:30-10:15

Joint CBC, LSOC & TCC Working Session, Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

DSC Working Session, Room B - Fullers Earth, Second Floor

10:15-10:45Break
10:45-12:30

Joint CBC, LSOC & TCC Session, Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

DSC Working Session, Room B - Fullers Earth, Second Floor

  • See DSC meeting agenda for updates in agenda
    • MEF W117.1 SASE revision Letter Ballot editing
    • MEF W132 Edge Computing IaaS Attributes Letter Ballot editing

Joint LSOC & DSC Working Session (last 20 min), Room B - Fullers Earth, Second Floor

12:30-13:30

Lunch in Hotel Restaurant (Floor 1)

13:30-15:15

Joint CBC & LSOC Working Session, Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

  • Alignment and evolution of LSO Business Data Models

  • (70 mins)

    • MEF W170, MEF W172 and MEF W81.1 April Taylor Mike Bencheck 
      • LSO Quote
      • LSO Product Order
      • LSO Product Inventory
      • LSO Billing and Settlement
  • API agreement template (35 mins)

DSC Working Session, Room B - Fullers Earth, Second Floor

15:15-15:45

Break

15:45-17:30

LSOC Working Session (50 mins), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

  • Chairs intro
  • Product Catalog BRUC (MEF W127.1)

  • Service APIs (MEF W99.1; MEF W135.1)

Joint CBC, DSC & LSOC Working Session (55 mins), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

TCC Working Session (50 mins), Room B - Fullers Earth, Second Floor

  • See TCC meeting agenda for updates in agenda
    • Chair's intro
    • Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification
    • Project Updates (MEF W92.1, MEF W166, MEF W167)

Thu 13 February  

Sessions – Each room has a Zoom, see below

07:30-8:30Breakfast in Restaurant
08:30-10:15

CBC Working Session (50 mins), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

LSOC Working Session (55 mins), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

  • Project Updates

Joint DSC & TCC Working Session (105 mins), Room B - Fullers Earth, Second Floor

  • MEF W169 SSE Framework update
  • MEF W140 Carrier Ethernet over Broadband status and Letter Ballot motion
  • MEF W165 Service Access Interface update
  • MEF W117.1 SASE revision status and Letter Ballot motion
10:15-10:45Break
10:45-12:30

CBC Working Session (55 mins), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

Project updates and discussions

  • NaaS Federation evolution, SSDTs and Web3 apps Daniel Bar-Lev 
  • SLA Terms and Definitions Mark Daley 
  • Roaming user trouble ticketing business requirements and use cases Daniel Bar-Lev
  • Cybersecurity alert (CSA) business requirements and use cases Daniel Bar-Lev 

LSOC Working Session (50 mins), Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

Project updates

  • Business APIs and Dev Guides Michał Łączyński
    • MEF 87.1; MEF W115.1; MEF W116.1; MEF W121.1; MEF W122.1; MEF W123.1; MEF W124.1; MEF W137.1; MEF W141.1; MEF W142; MEF W160;

  • Business BRUCs Mike Bencheck

    • MEF W57.2.1; MEF W79.1; MEF W80.0.1; MEF W110; MEF W150

DSC Working Session (50 mins), Room B - Fullers Earth, Second Floor

Status and Letter Ballot motion

  • MEF W132 Edge Computing IaaS Attributes (Mike B)
  • MEF 119 Universal SD-WAN Edge (Mike B)

TCC Working Session (55 mins), Room B - Fullers Earth, Second Floor

Status - See TCC meeting agenda for updates

  • IG SASE Cert
  • IG LSO Cert
12:30-13:30

Lunch in Hotel Restaurant (Floor 1)

13:30-14:30
Closing Plenary, Room A - Artisan, Second Floor

PPTX - PDF