[wg-all] New document published: NSI Connection Service v2.0

[Greg Newby]

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The new document:

* GFD-R-P.212, NSI Connection Service v2.0.  G. Roberts, T. Kudoh,
  I. Monga, J. Sobieski, J. MacAuley, C. Guok, via NSI-WG.

Abstract:
  This document describes the Connection Service v2.0, which is one of
a suite of services that make up the Network Service Interface (NSI).
The NSI is a web-service based API that operates between a requester
software agent and a provider software agent.  The full suite of NSI
services allows an application or network provider to request and
manage circuit service instances.  Apart from the Connection Service
these include the Topology Service and the Discovery Service.  The
complete set of NSI services is described in the Network Services
Framework v2.0.  This Connection Service document describes the
protocol, state machine, architecture and associated processes and
environment in which software agents interact to deliver a Connection.
A Connection is a point-to-point network circuit that can transit
multiple network s belonging to different providers.

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