3. Introduction

  • Requirements are identified as either MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, or MAY as defined in RFC 2119.

  • Requirements should be targeted to a restricted set of nouns related to VNFs or PNFs and within the control of the VNF or PNF provider. The current list of VNF or PNF Requirement targets is:

Target

When is it used

VNF

Functional behavior of a VNF

PNF

Functional behavior of a PNF

VNF or PNF

Function behavior to both VNFs and PNFs

{VNF|PNF|VNF or PNF} PROVIDER

Something the provider of the VNF, PNF, or VNF/PNF must do. This is often used to describe delivering artifacts or specific documentation that may not be part of a standard VNF package format.

VNF HEAT PACKAGE

The archive/zip file that includes Heat templates. The subject of the requirement my be further refined (Ex: Heat Environment File), but the metadata stay at the package level.

{VNF|PNF|VNF or PNF} CSAR PACKAGE

A requirement related to the contents of what should be in the CSAR package. The subject of the requirement might be further refined (ex: CSAR manifest file, VNF Descriptor, etc.), but the :target: metadata would stay at the package level.

{VNF|PNF|VNF or PNF} DOCUMENTATION PACKAGE

VNFs and PNFs are expected to provide human readable documentation. This may come in the form of URLs or pdfs. This documentation may vary by VNF or PNF. The structure of the documentation is intended for human consumption and is not highly structured for machine ingestion. The human readable documentation may be provided through the RFP/acquisition process.

  • Chapter 4 contains the VNF or PNF requirements involving the design and development of VNFs or PNF. These requirements help VNFs or PNFs operate efficiently within a cloud environment. Requirements cover design, resiliency, security, modularity and DevOps.

  • Chapter 5 describes the different data models the VNF or PNF provider needs to understand. There are currently 2 models described in this document:

    • The first model is the onboarding package data model. This is a TOSCA model that will describe how all the elements passed from the VNF or PNF Provider to the Service provider should be formatted and packaged.

    • The second model is HEAT template used for orchestrating and instantiating virtual resources in an OpenStack environment. At this time the HEAT files will be passed to the Service provider as a data element within the TOSCA onboarding package.

  • Chapter 6 details the requirements specific to an implementation. The current implementations documented are OpenStack and Azure.

  • Chapter 7 provides the comprehensive set of requirements for xNFs to be on-boarded, configured and managed by ONAP.

  • Chapter 8 is the appendix that provide a number of detailed data record formats. It also contains a list of the requirements that are listed in the other chapters as well as examples and models that are referenced throughout the rest of the chapters.