The Glossary of Modeling Subcommittee

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Last updated: Mar 23, 2020 by Xu Yang
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This page lists the modeling glossary documents generated based on the information model in Papyrus (source code at https://gerrit.onap.org/r/#/admin/projects/modeling/modelspec).



The information model in Papyrus is catagorized into different sub-models, including:

  • Common: concepts either used as the base of other models (i.e., the root model), or related to multiple sub-models

  • Resource: a physical or non-physical component within an enterprise's infrastructure or inventory 

  • Service: the object which operators use ONAP creates to serve their customers 

  • Party: concepts describing the roles within the ONAP system

  • Nf: function block within a network infrastructure that has well-defined external interfaces and well-defined functional behaviour

  • Vnf: implementation of an NF that can be deployed on virtualization infrastructure

  • Pnf: implemenation of an NF via a tightly coupled software and hardware system

  • Ns: composition of Nf and/or Ns, defined by its functional and behavioural specification 

  • VES: VNF Event Streaming, events collected and used within ONAP 

  • License: concepts related to software license used in ONAP

  • Policy: conceptes related to policy management

  • Infrastructure: concepts related to infrastructure



Current glossary files are listed below:

(policy and infrastructure model don't have available glossary documents yet)