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: both activities a "Re-imagining" that produces a project where both communities are needed for success.
- OPNFV+CNTT=NewName (Community and Marketing determine NewName).
- No Customer-Supplier relationships within NewName, recognition of shared fate.
- 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
- Create a new name for the merged organization, or
- OPNFV Release OPNFV Release Cadence beyond JERMA is TDB, plus 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.
- 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 formedNew TSC Elections and Officers (when organizations combine, possibly in January 2021?).
- 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
Development Project Release Artifacts (assuming recommended development
- Stable Project Repos
- Project Documentation
- For projects integrating with an Automated Conformance Test Suite, Integration test results
- Development to support OVP
- Maintenance for all projects, including OVP
Requirement/Documentation Projects
- Stable Project Repos
- Reference Model Documentation Jointly approved by GSMA (or moves to GSMA, similar question for Reference Architecture)
- GSMA members may participate
Interfaces and Dependencies
Upstream projects and communities: OpenStack, CNCF, LFN, ETSI NFV, IETF, others (Continue "Working Upstream")
- The merger option simplifies the relationship with GSMA.Continue "Working Upstream": Open Stack, CNCF, other LFN projects (FDIO, ODL, ONAP, ...), ETSI NFV, IETF, others
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 org project in operation in January 2021.
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Goals for this Option/Description
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- 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
- Create a new name for the merged organization, or
- 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
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