• Proposed name for the project: Models
• Proposed name for the repository: models

• This project will address various goals for promoting availability and convergence of information and/or data models related to NFV service/VNF management, as being defined in standards (SDOs) and as developed in open source projects.

• Activities will include:
  • establishing agile lines of communication (e.g. JIRA) with SDO members so that OPNFV and SDOs can set goals, share progress on various model-related issues, and provide feedback on implementation/test experience
  • building collections (by reference where possible) of standard models that can be roadmapped for analysis and verification thru use case testing on the OPNFV platform
  • work with various OPNFV projects (e.g. Movie, Parser, Promise, Copper, SFC, etc) to coordinate on models proposed for testing, and to feedback results to the SDOs
  • leverage/develop tools and processes for comparative analysis of standardized models and defacto models derived from open source documentation or code, and promote actions for key issues arising from the analysis
  • coordinate test/demo events focused on publicizing work of the project and enhancing collaboration with upstream SDO / open source project members

Further ideas/details for the proposed project are being collected on an etherpad page.

• Model use case tests will be coordinated with other OPNFV projects or directly by the models project as needed
• Any model analysis tools developed will be included in the CI pipeline and supported by tests

• A running dashboard will be maintained covering
  • References to sources of models
  • Models that have been collected and planned for analysis/testing on the OPNFV platform
  • Models that have been successfully tested, and the state of any issues related to them
  • Tools and processes for model derivation and comparative analysis

• Since modeling is a common approach to representing goals for services/functions, various OPNFV projects focusing on specific areas are related to this effort, and should benefit from collaborating on model verification, including:
  • Projects focusing on specific platform aspects that can be modeled
    • Fault Management (Doctor)
    • Virtualized Infrastructure Deployment Policies (Copper)
    • Resource Management (Promise)
    • High Availability for OPNFV (Availability)
    • Service Function Chaining (sfc)
    • OpenStack based VNF Forwarding Graph
    • Resource Scheduler (RS)
    • SDN distributed routing and VPN (SDN VPN)
    • Multi-Site Virtualized Infrastructure (Multisite)
  • Projects focused on specific service domain use cases
    • Connectivity Services LSO (LSOAPI)
  • Projects focused on the generic use of models in the platform
    • Model Oriented Virtualization Interface (Movie)
    • Deployment Template Translation (Parser)
  • Projects focused on specific NFVI platforms for which model interoperability needs to be validated
    • OpenContrail Virtual Networking for OPNFV
    • ONOS Framework (ONOSFW)
• The project will serve to coordinate collaboration with upstream SDOs and open source projects on models and goals for promoting convergence on them

• Committers:
  • Bryan Sullivan, AT&T
  • Dan Druta, AT&T
  • Ulas C. Kozat, Huawei
  • Marc Flauw, HPE
• Contributors:
  • Serge Manning, Sprint
  • Prakash Ramchandran, Huawei

• Periodic reports, e.g. on a release basis, for models collected, validated, and key open issues
• Proposals for model extensions to be addressed by SDOs
  • Possibly prototype model implementations used in PoCs for generating upstream SDO support
• Dashboard of current activity/plans for the project

• The first report should be produced by the C release deadline.

Use the above information to create a key project facts section on your project page

Project Name: Models
Repo name: models
Lifecycle State: incubation
Primary Contact: Bryan Sullivan, AT&T
Project Lead: Bryan Sullivan, AT&T
Jira Project Name: Models
Jira Project Prefix: MODELS
mailing list tag MODELS
Committers:
Bryan Sullivan, AT&T
Dan Druta, AT&T
Ulas Kozat, Huawei
Marc Flauw, HPE
Link to TSC approval: Example http://meetbot.opnfv.org/meetings/opnfv-meeting/2015/opnfv-meeting.2015-03-03-15.01.html
Link to approval of additional submitters: Example http://meetbot.opnfv.org/meetings/opnfv-meeting/2015/opnfv-meeting.2015-03-03-15.01.html