DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR COMMENTS

The content of this template is expected to be fill out for M1 Release Planning Milestone.

Overview

Scope

What is this release trying to address?

The Casablanca release of VNFRQTS project will address the following items:

• bug fixes, maintenance and feature alignment of VNF Guidelines, VNF Requirements and VNF Test Descriptions consistent with the rest of the ONAP Casablanca release.
  • including updates to HEAT  and TOSCA requirements for VNF Package onboarding
  • PNF capabilities supported by the ONAP platform 
  • 5G use cases supported by the ONAP platform
  • Autoscaling use case supported by the Platform
  • management interface updates
• The VNF Provider Use case for Autoscaling to be documented with associated VNF Requirements
• The VNF Test Descriptions appendix to be updated to reflect test implementations planned for Casablanca by other projects ( VVP, VNFSDK, etc.)
• Toolchain improvements for the management of VNF Requirements
• Categorization of VNF Requirements to support VNF Badging & certification initiatives

Use Cases

Describe the use case this release is targeted for (better if reference to customer use case).

The TSC identified the following Use cases for Release A:

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. 
• VNF SDK Project also uses VNF TEst Descriptions developed by this project to implement VNF testing for validation purposes

The VNF Requirements also cover nonfunctional requirements. ONAP non-functional requirements proposed for the Casablanca release that impact the VNF requirements include:

• Security
  • Description of how the xNFs receive their certificates 

Minimum Viable Product

Describe the MVP for this release.

• 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, and VNF SDK Project traceable from the VNF Requirments.
  • Appendix identifying which VNF requirements are testable by inspection of the VNF Package, and where the tests are implemented. 
• VNF Use Case - VNF Provider Guidelines for VNF Scale Out Use Case
  • Manual Scale out
  • Automated Scale Out
• VNF Badging Categories
  • Groomed list of VNF Requirements for VNF Badging
  • Groomed list of VNF Requirements for VNF Certification by testing

Functionalities

List the functionalities that this release is committing to deliver by providing a link to JIRA Epics and Stories. In the JIRA Priority field, specify the priority (either High, Medium, Low). The priority will be used in case de-scoping is required. Don't assign High priority to all functionalities.

Epics

Stories

Longer term roadmap

Indicate at a high level the longer term roadmap. This is to put things into the big perspective.

Amsterdam- deliver overview VNF Guidelines  & prototype RFP text requirements.

Beijing - Update Amsterdam deliverable for new ONAP features, Test Descriptions for VNF Package Testing, VNF Scaling Use case, tooling improvements

Casablanca - Extend tracability of VNF requirements into testing (VNF Requirements Database),additional VNF provider use cases, Update Bejing deliverable for new ONAP features

Dublin - Design time VNF testing description, additional VNF provider use cases, Update Casablanca deliverable for new ONAP features

El Alto - Run time VNF testing description, update Dublin deliverable for new ONAP features

Frankfurt - Update El Alto deliverable for new ONAP features

Release Deliverables

Indicate the outcome (Executable, Source Code, Library, API description, Tool, Documentation, Release Note...) of this release.

Sub-Components

List all sub-components part of this release.
Activities related to sub-components must be in sync with the overall release.

Sub-components are repositories and are consolidated in a single centralized place. Edit the Release Components name for your project in the centralized page.

Architecture

High level architecture diagram

At that stage within the Release, the team is expected to provide more Architecture details describing how the functional modules are interacting.

Indicate where your project fit within the ONAP Archiecture diagram.

Block and sequence diagrams showing relation within the project as well as relation with external components are expected.

Anyone reading this section should have a good understanding of all the interacting modules.

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.

• API Incoming Dependencies

List the API this project is expecting from other projects.
Prior to Release Planning review, Team Leads must agreed on the date by which the API will be fully defined. The API Delivery date must not be later than the release API Freeze date.

Prior to the delivery date, it is a good practice to organize an API review with the API consumers.

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) 

The VNF Requirments does not produce code interfaciong with platform APIs. The VNF Requirments do consoliate requirements from ONAP platform compontents that impact the design and development of VNFs.  These ONAP platform components in the table below generate APIs that impact VNFs and so these are generally reflected in the VNF Requirements. 

• API Outgoing Dependencies

The VNF Requirements do not provide code with APIs, but the VNF Requirements are used as inputs  by a number of other ONAP projects.API this project is delivering to other projects.

• Third Party Products Dependencies

The VNF Requirements is documentation rather than code so there is no dependency on 3rd party products other than the documentation and development tool chains provided through the Linux Foundation. 

• Testing and Integration Plans

The VNF Requirements is documentation built using the LF toolchain from .rst files into html. This tooclhain is administered by the documentation project. The toolchain provides for syntax checks of the documentation within Sphinx, doc8 etc.

The VNF Requirements is documentation rather than code so there is no code delivery for CSIT.

Reference VNFs used  for integration should be documenting their compliance to VNF Requirements.

• Gaps

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

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

• Risks

List the risks identified for this release along with the plan to prevent the risk to occur (mitigation) and the plan of action in the case the risk would materialized (contingency).

• Resources

Fill out the Resources Committed to the Release centralized page.

• Release Milestone

The milestones are defined at the Release Level and all the supporting project agreed to comply with these dates.

• Team Internal Milestone

This section is optional and may be used to document internal milestones within a project team or multiple project teams. For instance, in the case the team has made agreement with other team to deliver some artifacts on a certain date that are not in the release milestone, it is erecommended to provide these agreements and dates in this section.

It is not expected to have a detailed project plan.

• Documentation, Training

• The VNF Requirements is documentation built using the LF toolchain from .rst files into html. This tooclhain is administered by the documentation project. The toolchain provides for syntax checks of the documentation within Sphinx, doc8 etc.
• The VNFRQTS Project publishes a VNF Provider User Guide:
  • VNF Guidelines
    • Component lead - Wenyao Guan (China Mobile)
  • VNF Requirements
    • Component Lead - Hagop Bozawglanian (AT&T) 
  • VNF Provider Use Cases
    • Component Lead - Scott Blandford (AT&T)
  • VNF Test Descriptions
    • Component Lead - Steven Wright (AT&T
  • Release Notes

Other Information

• Vendor Neutral

If this project is coming from an existing proprietary codebase, ensure that all proprietary trademarks, logos, product names, etc. have been removed. All ONAP deliverables must comply with this rule and be agnostic of any proprietary symbols.

• Free and Open Source Software

FOSS activities are critical to the delivery of the whole ONAP initiative. The information may not be fully available at Release Planning, however to avoid late refactoring, it is critical to accomplish this task as early as possible.
List all third party Free and Open Source Software used within the release and provide License type (BSD, MIT, Apache, GNU GPL,... ).
In the case non Apache License are found inform immediately the TSC and the Release Manager and document your reasoning on why you believe we can use a non Apache version 2 license.

Each project must edit its project table available at Project FOSS.

Charter Compliance

The project team comply with the ONAP Charter.