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  ITU-T A.5 justification information for referenced document ETSI GS MEC 003 V4.1.1 (2025-05) in draft Q.5015
1. Clear description of the referenced document:
Name: ETSI GS MEC 003 V4.1.1 (2025-05)
Title: Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC); Framework and Reference Architecture
2. Status of approval:
Approved Group Specification (GS) produced by ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) Multi-access Edge Computing. This is the latest version by 2025-05.
3. Justification for the specific reference:
Refer to the specification as produced by ETSI ISG MEC to describe the enhanced reference architecture and reference points of Multi-access Edge Computing which are used for supporting the confidential computing orchestration.
4. Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
IPRs essential or potentially essential to normative deliverables may have been declared to ETSI. The information pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found in ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in respect of ETSI standards", which is available from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the ETSI Web server (https://ipr.etsi.org/).
5. Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
It is an ETSI Group Specification (GS) produced by ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). This is the latest version as of 2025-05.
6. The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
This GS has been approved by the ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) .
7. Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
None
8. Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
Normative references/
[1] ETSI GS MEC 002: "Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC); Use Cases and Requirements"./
[2] ETSI GS NFV 002: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Architectural Framework"./
[3] ETSI GS NFV-IFA 013: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Management and/
Orchestration; Os-Ma-nfvo reference point - Interface and Information Model Specification"./
[4] ETSI GS NFV-IFA 008: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Management and/
Orchestration; Ve-Vnfm reference point - Interface and Information Model Specification"./
[5] ETSI GS MEC 009: "Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC); General principles, patterns and/
common aspects of MEC Service APIs"./
[6]ETSI GS MEC 040: "Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC); Federation enablement APIs". /
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Informative references/
[i.1] ETSI GR MEC 001: "Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC); Terminology"./
[i.2] Void./
[i.3] OpenStack®: "OpenStack++ for Cloudlet Deployment". /
[i.4] Void./
[i.5] ETSI GR MEC 017: "Mobile Edge Computing (MEC); Deployment of Mobile Edge Computing in an NFV environment"./
[i.6] ETSI TS 123 501: "5G; System architecture for the 5G System (5GS) (3GPP TS 23.501 Release 17)"./
[i.7] ETSI GR MEC 035: "Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC); Study on Inter-MEC systems and MEC-Cloud systems coordination"./
[i.8] GSMATM Official Document OPG.02: "Operator Platform: Requirements and Architecture", v6.0, February 2024./
[i.9] ETSI TS 123 558: "5G; Architecture for enabling Edge Applications (3GPP TS 23.558 Release 17)"./
[i.10] ETSI TS 133 310: "Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; 5G; Network Domain Security (NDS); Authentication Framework (AF) (3GPP TS 33.310 Release 17)"./
[i.11] IETF RFC 9334: "Remote Attestation Procedures"./
[i.12] ETSI GR NFV-SEC 007: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Trust; Report on Attestation Technologies and Practices for Secure Deployments".
9. Qualification of ETSI:
ETSI is recognized under the provisions of ITU-T Recommendations A.5 and A.6. Qualifying information is on file at TSB.
10. Other (for any supplementary information):
None
Note: This form is based on Recommendation ITU-T A.5