1. ONF relationship to ETSI NFV WG and OpenDaylight Consortium: My last Viodi View article examined the motivation and current work of the ETSI NFV WG and questioned whether service providers might prefer to base “software control” of their networks on that standards initiative, rather than SDN-Open Flow from the ONF. Dan Pitt, ONF Executive Director (and a colleague of this author for 30 years) acknowledged the SDN carrier issue in an email: “During the Open Network Summit, there was a lot of interest and discussion around the impact of SDN on carriers, service providers and the telecommunications industry. At ONF, we are excited to continue our close work with the ETSI network-operator-led Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specification Group (ISG).” Regarding the ONFs relationship with the new OpenDaylight Consortium, Dan wrote the following: ONF welcomes any group that supports the mission of furthering the commercialization of open, standards-based SDN. The Foundation was aware of the pending launch of the OpenDaylight Project as well as the participation of our member companies within this initiative. We encourage our member companies to participate in any industry initiatives – including open-source ones – designed to foster innovation, implementation, and deployment of SDN. We are pleased that [...]
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