Network Functions Virtualisation ... offering the opportunity to create new types of eco-systems (alongside traditional supply models based on preferred strategic partners) which will encourage and support rapid innovation with reduced cost and reduced risk. To reap these benefits technical challenges... must be addressed.
The authors … recommend that the IT and Network … combine their complementary expertise and resources in a joint collaborative effort to reach broad agreement on standardised approaches and common architectures which address these technical challenges, and which are interoperable and have economies of scale.
from ETSI NFV whitepaper #1
The terms above might seem too generic. What is behind them?