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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 The Opening Plenary will cover MEF plans for 2025, the new MEF membership model, certification, and committee updates.  The plenary will be followed by 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.

At the Closing Plenary midday Thursday each committee will provide readouts in on the progress of work over the course of the members meeting.

As MEF continues to progress our important industry work, the Interim Member 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

Members need a Wiki account to access agendas and materials. Signup here or contact tom@mef.net for assistance.

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

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

All Hands Joint Committee Working Session (CBC, DSC, LSOC and TCC)

  • General (45 mins)
    • New meeting format plan and specific plans for London and GNE
    • Cross-committee coordination
    • Rules and procedures
    • New membership categories
    • New MEF branding
  • NaaS Framework part 1 (60 mins)
    • Current NaaS work status (e.g., NaaS Customer Experience; NaaS Federation; NaaS Certification framework; NaaS Blueprint)
    • NaaS attributes and their correlation to existing/past committee work (e.g., LSO Reference Architecture; LSO APIs; LSO Products; etc.)
10:15-10:45Break
10:45-12:30

All Hands Joint Committee Working Session (CBC, DSC, LSOC and TCC)

  • NaaS Framework part 2 (45mins)
    • Methodology for LSO Products spanning all four committees (e.g., Access E-Line; Subscriber Ethernet; Wavelength; SD-WAN; cross connects etc.)
    • Discussion of any member proposals for additional supporting committee work (e.g. vision, definition,  NaaS maturity index, location identity/address validation; smart contracts etc.)
  • LSO APIs (30 mins)
    • Second generation of LSO APIs - readout and plan
  • MSAs and SLAs (30 mins)
    • Automated SLA Reporting
    • Standardized terminology and template
12:30-13:30Lunch & Networking
13:30-15:15

All Hands Joint Committee Working Session (CBC, DSC, LSOC and TCC)

  • CTO Roadmap Update (30 mins)
    • Impact on committees' work in 2025
  • Smart Contracts (45 mins)
    • Methodology and roadmap
  • Service Access Interface (30 mins)
    • Status and impact
15:15-15:45

Break

15:45-17:30

All Hands Joint Committee Working Session (CBC, DSC, LSOC and TCC)

  • Carrier Ethernet (45 mins)
    • Harmonizing Subscriber and Operator Ethernet standards
    • Operator Ethernet over Broadband
    • New MEF 23.2 Performance Tiers
  • Internet Access (20 mins)
    • Current status and roadmap
  • Wavelength services (20 mins)
    • Current status and roadmap
17:30-18:30Welcome Reception

Wed 12 February  

Sessions

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

Joint CBC, LSOC & TCC Working Session

  • LSO in the Data Center Ecosystem (105 mins)
    • Cross connects - product payload and certification
    • eLOAs

DSC Working Session

  • See DSC meeting agenda for updates in agenda
    • MEF W132 Letter Ballot editing (Mike B)
    • MEF W140 Letter Ballot editing (Bertrand/Larry)
10:15-10:45Break
10:45-12:30

Joint CBC, LSOC & TCC Session

  • LSO Notification Services (105 mins)

    • Roadmap for CIM and CSA
    • Project proposal
    • Certifications

DSC Working Session

  • See DSC meeting agenda for updates in agenda
    • MEF W132 Letter Ballot editing (Mike B)
    • MEF W140 Letter Ballot editing (Bertrand/Larry)
    • MEF 67 Service Function Testing throughput testing
12:30-13:30

Lunch & Networking

13:30-15:15

Joint CBC & LSOC Working Session

  • Alignment and evolution (70 mins)
    • LSO Quote
    • LSO Product Order
    • LSO Product Inventory
    • LSO Billing and Settlement
  • API agreement template (35 mins)

DSC Working Session

15:15-15:45

Break

15:45-17:30

Joint CBC & LSOC Working Session (55 mins)

  • Operator Ethernet over Business Access
  • LSO Product Payloads
  • LSO Adapter solution

LSOC Working Session (50 mins)

  • Chairs intro

DSC Working Session (55 mins)

TCC Working Session (50 mins)

  • Chairs intro 
  • Product updates
    • MEF W92.1
    • MEF W166
    • MEF W167

Thu 13 February  

Sessions

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

CBC Working Session (50 mins)

  • Location identity and address validation

LSOC Working Session (55 mins)

Project Updates

Service Business Requirements and Use Cases (Mike B)

•    MEF W133.1; MEF W136.1

Service APIs (Michał)

•    MEF W99.1; MEF W135.1; MEF W142; MEF W146; MEF W148; MEF W149

Service Payloads (Jack)

•    MEF W101; MEF W103; MEF W153


Joint DSC & TCC Working Session (105 mins)

  • MEF W140 Carrier Ethernet over Broadband status and Letter Ballot
  • MEF W165 Service Access Interface update (Fahim and Larry)
  • MEF W117.1 SASE revision status and Letter Ballot (Neil)
  • MEF W169 SSE Framework update (Mike B)


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

CBC Working Session (55 mins)

  • SLA Terms and Definitions
  • Roaming user trouble ticketing business requirements and use cases
  • NaaS Federation evolution
  • Cybersecurity alert (CSA) business requirements and use cases

LSOC Working Session

Project updates (50 mins)

  • Business BRUCs (Mike B): MEF W57.2.1; MEF W79.1; MEF W80.0.1; MEF W110; MEF W127.1; MEF W150

  • Business APIs and Dev Guides (Michał): 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;

DSC Working Session

  • Edge Computing IaaS Attributes (MEF W132)
  • CE Services over Broadband L2 Access (MEF W140)

TCC Working Session

  • Broadband Access E-Line Services Test and Certification Requirements (MEF W167)
12:30-13:30

Lunch & Networking

13:30-14:30
Closing Plenary

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