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1. Introduction
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Table of Contents
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- `1.1 Who We Are <#1.1>`__
- `1.2 Document Purpose <#1.2>`__
- `1.3 Operational Scope <#1.3>`__
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1.1 Who We Are
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The founding members of the Cloud iNfrastructure Telco Task Force (CNTT)
were AT&T, Vodafone, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, and China
Mobile. Soon thereafter, additional telco operator and vendor partner
participants began to join the Task Force. CNTT reached its first major
milestone when it gained sponsorship and support of the GSMA and Linux
Foundation Networking in Summer 2019. As of June 2020, there were over
thirty operators and partners (VNF suppliers, third-party integrators,
hw/sw suppliers) in its member commmunity and these numbers continue to
grow. Together the CNTT community is leading the industry in creating a
common infrastructure reference platform in the form of reference model
and reference architecture definitions to better support Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) applications for the Telecom industry as a
whole. The working group is collaborating with OPNFV and other open
source communities to operationalize and support reference
implementations and reference certification platforms.
In order to establish governing guidelines and procedures by which the
CNTT technical community may operate, the development of this document
was undertaken by a CNTT workstream group and developed under the
guidance of the CNTT Governance Steering Committee.
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1.2 Document Purpose
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The goal of this document is to assist CNTT to continue to scale, gain
momentum, and plan for the future of CNTT-- outlined at the September
2019 3rd Technical Workshop held in Antwerp, Belgium. The purpose of
this document is to define and detail basic CNTT community operations
and important structures. It provides a reference of the organisation
and related work streams, processes, and procedures around which the
CNTT Community is managed; including operational scope, structure, and
responsibilities of all groups and individuals associated with CNTT.
This document is intended for use by CNTT's new and existing
contributors, participants, associated organisations, and, as an
open-source community following the GSMA and LFN Anti-Trust Policies and
Creative Commons Licensing, the public at-large.
This document does not define any technical specifications, definitions,
requirements, architectures, testing, certifications, or lab platforms.
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1.3 Operational Scope
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To support the technical mission and goals (link to docs here?), the
scope of CNTT community operations are defined in this document as
follows:
- Onboarding (Ch. 2)
The CNTT Onboarding process ensures new members are informed of their
obligations, confirms terms of agreement, and provides practical support
to get them onboard as fully contributing members of the community.
- Organizational Structure and Works Streams (Ch. 3)
This area includes the structure of governance and technical
co-leadership and support, all participanting work streams and
resources, the scope and the methods to manage the creation of
deliverables by those work streams.
- Nomination and Selection (Ch. 4)
Covers the processes for nominating and selecting candidates to be leads
and co-leads for governance and technical workstreams, the timeframes of
their service, responsibilities, and obiligations.
- Consensus-Based Decision Making (Ch. 5)
The approaches and processes CNTT contributors shall use to ensure fair
representation for key decisions and release approvals. This includes
mechanisms on how to manage dissension.
- Relationship to LFN Projects and GSMA (Ch. 6)
Provides operational guidance for how CNTT operational structures shall
interoperate with GSMA and LFN.