Network slice capability enablement- Service Enabler Architecture Layer for Verticals (SEAL); Protocol specification; Stage 3
The present document specifies the protocol aspects of the SEAL service for the network slice capability enablement to support identifying network slices with capabilities for vertical applications in the 3GPP system based on 5GS management system services and 5GS network services. The protocol aspects specify the User Equipment (UE) supporting the client functionality of this SEAL service and the network supporting the server functionality of this SEAL service, where the client functionality and server functionality are specified in 3GPP TS 23.434 [2] and 3GPP TS 23.435 [13].
The present document is applicable to the application servers supporting the Vertical Application Layer server (VAL server) functionality for a specific Vertical Application Layer service (VAL service). The specification for the VAL server for a specific VAL service is out of scope of the present document.