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Liaison statement
ETSI ISG MEC (Multi access Edge Computing) Phase 2

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State Posted
Submitted Date 2017-04-18
From Group ETSI-ISG-MEC
From Contact Chantal Bonardi
To Group IETF
To Contacts The IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org>
Cc The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
The IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org>
Response Contact adrian.neal@vodafone.com
ISGMECSupport@etsi.org
Purpose For action
Deadline 2017-06-09 Action Needed
Attachments MEC&#40;17&#41;000234_ETSI_ISG_MEC__Multi_access_Edge_Computing__Phase_2
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1. Overall description:
ETSI ISG MEC would like to inform IETF that we have held the first meeting of
our second phase of operation, with a new leadership team and new Terms of
Reference. We have also approved a new work item to update our Use Cases and
Requirements specification GS MEC 002 based on but not limited to our new ToR.
The following candidate topics are now in scope for Phase 2: •       Support
for non-3GPP access technologies to broaden the applicability of the MEC in
terms of access specific network capability and information exposure to the
applications •       Expanding the support of virtualization (e.g. containers,
Platform-as-a-Service, distributed virtualization) to render the MEC
environment as attractive as possible for 3rd party application developers/ISVs
•       Support for new charging models, in collaboration with the 3GPP and
other relevant SDOs •       MEC Integration in NFV environment •       Filling
any gaps related to lawful interception, in collaboration with the 3GPP and
ETSI TC LI. •       New compelling use cases that may identify additional
missing parts that the ISG will agree to work on (e.g. enhanced security in a
multi-access domain). In addition, the ISG plans to develop specifications on
testing and test methodologies and shall consider how to best leverage the ETSI
capabilities in this area. The ISG will continue to coordinate experimentation
and showcasing of MEC solutions (e.g. PoC Zone), and will produce PoC case
studies and documents/reports of PoC results. The goal of ETSI MEC is to
incorporate operational and delivery experience from the ETSI MEC PoCs and
re-introduce concepts into existing and future MEC specifications.

The ISG will work to strengthen the collaboration with other organizations and
also plans to work constructively with open source communities.

2. Actions:
ETSI ISG MEC encourages IETF to send any agreed MEC related use cases and
requirements from your meetings to us via common member contributions to our
meetings.

3. Date of next meetings of the originator:
MEC#9b  25-27 April 2017        Munich, DE.
MEC#10  12-15 June 2017 Beijing, CN.