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2.2.3 Policy Design Process
All policies policy types must be certified as being fit for deployment prior to run time deployment. In the case of design-time via the SDC application, it is assumed the lifecycle being implemented by SDC will suffice for any policies policy types that are declared within the ONAP Service CSAR. For Policy Templates and raw policiesother policy types and policy type implementations, the lifecycle associated with software development process will suffice. Since models, templates and raw policies will be deployed to a Nexus repository, designed and implemented using software development best practices, they can be utilized and configured for various environments (eg. development, testing, production) as desired.
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