With edge cloud fervor intensifying rather than showing signs of abating, attention is being paid among practitioners in the field, as well as infrastructure providers, to separation between those common elements applicable widely and those aspects more particular to individual vertical sectors. This is timely, or even overdue, given that the edge field has been driven largely so far by the industrial sector under the banner of Industry 4.0 with a risk of being skewed too far towards requirements among manufacturers and engineering firms. Indeed, other sectors, notably transportation, healthcare, retail, and video entertainment, as well as telecommunications itself, are all ripe for the edge and are already embracing it. The underlying principle of distributing computation and storage closer to…