The E-NNI work is great, but there is a need for something which would encorage individual Network Operators to align key service attributes of their CE services in an orchestrated manner. Currently there isn't anything out there that does it, and each Operator continues to do what they done for years - define their products based on their personal understanding of the market and their customers' needs, plus capabilities of their service delivery platforms. In isolation.

The task of describing CE service capabilities to a prospect customer when a CE service may be built from on-net and partner Operator comonents is also quite non-trivial.

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I'll be presenting on the CEW APAC in Kuala Lumpur in a week, talking about the proposal that we see as supplementary to the E-NNI/NID efforts, which documents the Best Current Implementation Prectices (BCIP) for the most common CE services in terms of their key service attributes. The talk is mainly around the BCIP white paper itself, which can be found here: http://bit.ly/3QcCpm

We're also workinng with the guys from the MEF Ethernet Academy on setting up a dicussion topic about this white paper with the aim to get feedback and peer review comments from as wide interested community as possible, to make it truly relevant and useful.

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Apologies for a bit of an advertising, but I'm a bit passionate about making it happen.

-- Dmitri