IPsphere introduces the concept of an IPsphere Service, an entity used to describe the business and technical characteristics of a service in an abstract way, so that it can be published and understood for use by others in service compositions. Service composition is the process that identifies and selects components to satisfy requested technical and business requirements. The IPSF provides the support for publishing, composing, fulfilling and assuring IPsphere Services. Product related aspects, such as product specification, billing or SLAs are out of scope of the IPSF R2.

While the initial focus of IPSF R2 concerns network and connectivity based services other types of services can be supported by the IPSF framework. It has been defined generically and can be extended with further SP B2B agreed specifications by adding entities to the IPsphere Information Model. It is expected that an increasing number of such service areas will be defined by service providers going forward.

This document is the second release of the IPsphere Framework (IPSF) General Requirements and Architecture, and supersedes Release 1.

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