DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR COMMENTS

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• This project will deliver a unified set of VNF Guidelines and VNF Requirements.
• The VNF Guidelines and VNF Requirements must be  versioned to enable evolution based on operational experience
• The VNF Guidelines and VNF Requirements will support the ONAP Architecture Principles.
• • Update the  VNF Requirements as prototype RFP text for the ONAP/Beijing release including:
    • Hardware Platform Awareness (HPA) Requirements
    • HEAT/TOSCA Information Model updates
  • Update the  VNF Guidelines as  for the ONAP/Beijing release
    
• Identify a list of features and functionality will be developed.
• The VNF Guidelines and Requirements will support the Release 1 Use Cases.
  • Use cases focused on VNF Requirements may be developed in this project, and they will need to be aligned with the ETE Platform use cases.  
  • Document the VNF Provider Guidelines for VNF Scaleout Use Case for the ONAP/Beijing release
• VNF Guidelines and Requirements  are to be refined beyond prototype text  (e.g. through EPIC statements, use cases)  to deliver test cases and test procedures for us in VNF onboarding & validation. VNF Requirement level use cases to be aligned with ETE platform use cases
  • Document the VNF Test Case Descriptions  for VNF Package testing for the ONAP/Beijing release
• Identify what is in or out of scope. During the development phase, it helps reduce discussion.
• VNF Guidelines may be forward looking, or include best practices in VNF design and VNF lifecycle processes.
• VNF Requirements from ONAP APIs should be linked to the ONAP Release
• VNF  Requirements may include: 
• expected  operational characteristics ( e.g. security, resilience, upgradeability) 
• conditional  requirements (e.g. When configured for deployment on High Availability Network Cloud Infrastructure, the VNF Shall …)
• Tool chain improvements
  • Develop requirements structure/ metadata to support better linkage / tracking with other ONAP projects
  • Develop templates for VNFs to demonstrate VNF Requirements conformance 

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The VNF Requirements developed by this project are applicable to the VNFs identified in the TSC E2E use cases.  

• a  VNF Provider (developer) using VNF Requirements in designing, testing, and certifying a VNF for use on ONAP
• a Service Provider using VNF Requirements as prototype text for RFPs to acquire VNFs to run in an ONAP context see VNFRQTS-16
• VNF Validation Project uses VNF Test Descriptions developed by this project to implement VNF testing for validation purposes. 

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• A VNF Guidelines document summarizing VNF provider oriented deliverables and providing informative, forward lookiging guidance. 
• A set of Integrated VNF Requirements for use as prototype RFP text.
• VNF Test Descriptions for use by VNF Validation project, traceable from the VNF Requirments
• VNF Use Case - VNF Provider Guidelines for VNF Scale Out Use Case

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Platform Maturity

Refering to CII Badging Security Program and Platform Maturity Requirements, fill out the table below by indicating the actual level , the targeted level for the current release and the evidences on how you plan to achieve the targeted level.

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Other ONAP projects that this VNF Requirements project depends on:

• SDN-C          (for API requirements on VNFs)  
• APPC            (for VNF configuration  requirements) 
• VF-C             (for  VNF life cycle managment and configuration)
• Service Design & Creation               (for VNF onboarding)  
• DCAE            (for VNF reporting requirements)
• Authentication and authorization Framework (for VNF Security Requirements)
• Modeling        (for Tosca Data Modeling for VNF)
• Multi-VIM/ MultiCloud (for network cloud infrastructure requirements) 

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Third Party Products Dependencies

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This section is used to document a limitation on a functionality or platform support. We are currently aware of this limitation and it will be delivered in a future Release.
List identified release gaps (if any), and its impact.

Known Defects and Issues

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Known Defects and Issues

Provide a link toward the list of all known project bugs.

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Resources

Fill out the Resources Committed to the Release centralized page.

Release Milestone

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• VNF Guidelines  
  • component lead - Wenyao Guan (China Mobile) 
  • Forward looking guidance
• VNF Requirements
  • component lead - Herb Patten (AT&T)
  • VNF Conformance requirements
• VNF  Use Cases
  • component lead - TBDScott Blandford
  • tutorial
• VNF Test Case Descriptions
  • component lead - TBDSteven Wright
  • Description of how to test the VNF Requirements

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