Content for TR 28.812 Word version: 17.1.0

3.1 Terms 3.2 Symbols 3.3 Abbreviations
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1 Scope p. 8

The present document describes, intent driven management concept, intent driven management scenarios, and recommendation for the way forward on standardization expression of the intent in normative phase. The relation with other automation mechanisms is also addressed in this study.

The present document considers below dimensions when studying Intent driven management. For each dimension the scope is narrowed down to a certain aspect:

Users; The study covers the Technical (NOP, NEP) and Techno-Business (CSP)
Networks; The study covers the 5G and 4G
Operated System; The study covers the Co-ordinated and Complex systems
Infrastructure Automation; The study covers more Autonomous and less Automatic
Language; The scope covers more declarative and less Imperative

2 References p. 8

The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.

References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non-specific.
For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.

[1] TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".

[2] TS 28.531: "Management and orchestration; Provisioning".

[3] TS 28.530: "Management and orchestration; Concepts, use cases and requirements".

[4] TS 28.552: "Management and orchestration; 5G performance measurements".

[5] TS 28.554: "Management and orchestration; 5G end to end Key Performance Indicators (KPI)".

[6] TS 28.533: " Management and orchestration; Architecture framework".

[7] RFC 3198: Terminology for Policy-Based Management

[8] TS 28.545: "Management and orchestration; Fault Supervision (FS)".

[9] TS 28.532: "Management and orchestration; Generic management services".

[10] TS 28.550: "Management and orchestration; Performance assurance".

[11] TS 28.541: "Management and orchestration of 5G networks; Network Resource Model (NRM); Stage 2 and stage 3".

[12] TR 28.805: "Study on management aspects of communication services".

[13] TS 28.628: "Telecommunication management; Self-Organizing Networks (SON) Policy Network Resource Model (NRM) Integration Reference Point (IRP); Information Service (IS)".

3 Definitions of terms, symbols and abbreviations p. 9

3.1 Terms p. 9

For the purposes of the present document, the terms given in TR 21.905 and the following apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in TR 21.905.

Policy management:

A function that governs the choices in behaviour of a system.

Intent:

A desire to reach a certain state/position for a specific entity for instance for a service assurance or network deployment task.

Intent driven MnS:

A management service that allows its consumer to express an Intent.

3.2 Symbols p. 9

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3.3 Abbreviations p. 9

For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in TR 21.905 and the following apply. An abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any, in TR 21.905.

CSC

Communication Service Customer

CSP

Communication Service Provider

Intent-CSC

Intent from Communication Service Customer

Intent-CSP

Intent from Communication Service Provider

Intent-NOP

Intent from Network Operator

MOI

Managed Object Instance

MnS

Management Service

NEP

Network Equipment Provider

NOP

Network Operator

NSI

Network Slice Instance

VISP

Virtualization Infrastructure Service Provider