This Recommendation establishes a framework to describe Ethernet services based on the documents of a non-profit industry forum of network, cloud and technology providers, the MEF. The framework consists of a set of service definitions, service attributes and operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) for each Ethernet virtual connection (EVC), operator virtual connection (OVC), Ethernet services layer connection (EC), Ethernet user-to-network interface (UNI) and Ethernet external network-to-network interface (ENNI). The resulting services that can be described do not refer to a particular network technology implementation and are supported by ITU-T and MEF Ethernet layer architecture models.