Anuket Project
Merger Option - August Governing Board input
For the August Governing Board meeting, we need to cover 3 specific areas (the first three headings below) in single slides. Additional material has also been captured.
Wording for the three Slides
Description
Full Merger of equal communities: a "Re-imagining" that produces a project where both communities are needed for success.
Merger Outcome: a single organization where telcos work together with vendors and other interested organizations and individuals to define, implement and test the cloud architectures that fulfill the common requirements of telecom applications
Community and Board Decision is needed about the name of the organization
Create a new name for the merged organization, or
Find a way to keep existing organization names
OPNFV Release process already allows for frequent project self-releases, so any CNTT release schedule can be accommodated.
Ensure all leadership needs and project activities are covered in the organizational structure
New TSC Elections and Officers (when organizations combine, see timeline below).
New Structures can be accommodated by mutual agreement
(points below are mostly structural recommendations with a lot of flexibility! Probably do not appear on the Description slide)
CNTT Work Streams become individual Projects, with PTLs, Committers, Contributors, and Project descriptions.
This can be a structure where the existing workstreams have 1:1 mapping to new formal projects, or some restructuring is possible/optional.
Build new WGs according to CNTT’s need for tiered structure (if any WG are needed).
Existing OPNFV projects could choose to continue to be independent projects or choose to combine with new projects being formed
Commitment from all OPNFV+CNTT members to supply a fixed amount of resources to both requirements and code development.
New project to Integrate all relevant project outputs into a cohesive deliverable for automated Conformance testing.
Reduce overall governance structure of OPNFV+CNTT, where possible. Reduce the overall number of meetings related to former CNTT activities.
Define Work Product, Interfaces and Dependencies
Two focus areas: requirements and development/implementation focused projects.
Work Products
Requirement projects
reference model, reference architectures, reference conformance specifications
Reference model is Jointly approved by GSMA
Implementation projects
platforms, test cases, tooling guided by specifications released by requirements projects
development to support LFN OVP badging programs
Dependencies and Relationships
Upstream projects and communities: OpenStack, CNCF, LFN, ETSI NFV, IETF, others (Continue "Working Upstream")
The merger option simplifies the relationship with GSMA.
Approximate Timeline
Factors:
Governing Board Decision in October 2020 on Fully-fleshed-out plan (Ideally, an announcement at ONS = late Sept 2020)
OPNFV JERMA meta-Release Calendar: December 2020 Release date
CNTT Baraque Release in September 2020 (insert additional releases planned...)
Current CNTT officer term ends in December 2020
Intermediate tasks to flesh-out, post GB decision, such as the structure of the new organization
Nomination periods and Elections take about 6 weeks - propose to start the Election Calendar in November 2020 (half of December is unavailable).
NewName selection: Community and Marketing
Estimate: New project in operation in January 2021.
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Goals for this Option/Description
Create a proposal that has advantages for the Governing Board, OPNFV, and CNTT.
Help everyone recognize that the completeness of conformance testing is the common goal of all, and a unique opportunity for the success of all.
Foster Trust, Transparency, and Truth.
Advantages over Current Mode of Operation
Keep Requirements and Test Code Development together: OPNFV as an opensource and integration project for both OpenStack and K8s virtualization layers.
Increase Communication and understanding of the level of effort involved to complete tasks among all contributors.
OPNFV Charter and Website have been updated several times since January to fit CNTT requirements and mindsets (OPNFV 2.0)
CNTT continues to enjoy LFN support for Zoom bridges, Program Management, Wiki Pages, Event Planning, etc.
Data from LFN Support Survey indicates that < … results>
Participation in both OPNFV and CNTT activities are stimulated by forming a complete conformance solution community.
NewName Pros:
send the message that it’s not business as usual
help CNTT feel that it is joining a partnership vs. becoming a part of another organization and losing control.
Possible disadvantages
Use fact based points (check when done)
CNTT stakeholders perceive some loss of visibility in the Industry once merged.
Some CNTT Stakeholders leave because they don't like the outcome.
1[but some think they won’t leave for long. If they still need the common infrastructure that CNTT proposes, and if the merged community is successful, they will come back sooner or later]
Ildiko's further suggestions follow:
Description
Desired outcome of the merge
To create a single organization where the telecom operators can work together with vendors and other interested organizations and individuals to define, implement and test the cloud architectures that fulfill the requirements of telecom applications.
Implementation considerations
CNTT and OPNFV to be merged as equal communities
Decision is needed about the name of the organization
Create a new name for the merged organization, or
Find a way to keep existing organization names
Ensure all leadership needs and project activities are covered in the organizational structure
(If it's not too many details we can list the options here about the work streams as OPNFV projects, Technical Steering Committee, a potential Architecture Committee, etc)
Desire to reduce governance complexity and number of meetings within the two organizations if possible
Work Product, Interfaces and Dependencies
Two kinds of focus areas: requirements- and implementation focused projects
Release artifacts
Requirement projects
reference model, reference architectures, reference conformance specifications
Reference model is Jointly approved by GSMA
Implementation projects
platforms, test cases, tooling guided by specifications released by requirements projects
development to support LFN OVP badging programs
Dependencies and Relationships
Upstream projects and communities: OpenStack, CNCF, LFN, ETSI NFV, IETF, others
The merger option simplifies the relationship[ with GSMA.
Approximate Timeline
Factors
Governing Board Decision in October 2020?
OPNFV JERMA meta-Release Calendar: December 2020 Release date
CNTT Baraque Release in September 2020 (insert additional releases planned...)
Current CNTT officer term ends in December 2020
Intermediate tasks to flesh-out, post GB decision, such as the structure of the new organization
Nomination periods and Elections take about 6 weeks - propose to start the Election Calendar in November 2020 (half of December is unavailable).
NewName selection: Community and Marketing
Estimate
New org in operation in January 2021