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• lifecycle management of the contents in the repository (e.g., creation by storing, modification,
deletion, etc.)

External Management Entity Support
The External Management Entity Support (EMES) functional element provides an interface to the external
management system including IMT-2020 Multi-Plane Management functional component for requesting and
receiving management operations and associated information for slice management specific to a particular
slice instance and to the external IMT-2020 management systems for provisioning and provide capabilities
for:
• requesting and receiving slice instance specific operational status
• requesting and receiving slice instance specific performance, fault, security related statistics and
events
• requesting and receiving slice provisioning requests and responses to/from the external IMT-2020
management systems.
IMT-2020 Slice Instance Management Functional Architecture

This clause specifies network slice instance management functional architecture and components. Figure 6
shows a general network slice instance management plane architecture and relationship, interfaces with
other IMT-2020 network slice instance functional entities.

Figure 6 – IMT-2020 slice instance management functional components architecture
The remaining part of this clause specifies the details of each management functional components.

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