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3.1.4 cloud service partner [ITU-T Y.3500]: Party which is engaged in support of, or auxiliary to, activities
of either the cloud service provider or the cloud service customer, or both.

3.1.5 cloud service provider [ITU-T Y.3500]: Party which makes cloud services available.
3.1.6 inter-cloud computing [ITU-T Y.3511]: The paradigm for enabling the interworking between two or
more cloud service providers.
NOTE – Inter-cloud computing is also referred as inter-cloud.
3.1.7 metadata [ITU-T M.3030]: Data that describes other data.
3.1.8 role [ITU-T Y.3502]: A set of activities that serves a common purpose.

3.1.9 product catalogue [ITU-T Y.3502]: A listing of all the cloud service products which cloud service
providers make available to cloud service customers.
3.1.10 service catalogue [ITU-T Y.3502]: A listing of all the cloud services of a particular cloud service
provider.
3.1.11 service management interface (SMI) [ITU T Y.3521]: Interface that provides a set of management
capabilities exposed by a cloud service through which the cloud service can be managed.
NOTE – For additional details of SMI concepts, see [ITU T Y.3520] and [b-TMF TR198].

3.2 Terms defined in this Recommendation
This Recommendation defines the following terms:

3.2.1 functional interface: Interface that provides a set of functional capabilities exposed by a cloud
service through which the cloud service can be consumed.

4 Abbreviations and acronyms

This Recommendation uses the following abbreviations and acronyms:
CSC Cloud Service Customer

CSN Cloud Service Partner
CSP Cloud Service Provider

CSU Cloud Service User
CT Communications Technology

E2E End-to-End
FI Functional Interface
IT Information Technology

OSS Operational Support Systems
QoS Quality of Service

SMI Service Management Interface
WSDL Web Services Description Language

5 Conventions
The keywords "is required to" indicate a requirement which must be strictly followed and from which no
deviation is permitted if conformance to this document is to be claimed.
The keywords "is recommended" indicate a requirement which is recommended but which is not absolutely
required. Thus this requirement need not be present to claim conformance.

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