I agree that the current definition can be improved.
"Provider Network" vs "Self service network" highlights who can
provision a network.
In my understanding, "Provider Network" is a network provisioned by
the cloud operator. Practically the operator cannot provision a network
for a tenant, so a
Yes, I think of it as:
A provider network in OpenStack is simply a record specifying the necessary
details of the underlying infrastructure so that OpenStack can utilize it. The
actual networking services (layer 2 and 3 forwarding, for example) are provided
by the infrastructure and configured
