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8 - The purpose of these requirements is to accelerate adoption of xNF best
9 practices which will increase innovation, minimize customization needed to
10 onboard xNFs as well as reduce implementation complexity, time and cost
11 for all impacted stakeholders.
12 - This initial release consolidates the requirements from Open-O and OpenECOMP
13 to provide common xNF requirements across the industry in order to drive
14 interoperability, simplify management, and reduce cost to build, deploy and
16 - These requirements serve multiple purposes:
17 - Primarily it provides a detailed list of requirements for xNF
18 providers to meet to be compatible with ONAP; xNF providers will use
19 the xNF requirements to build VNFs/PNFs that are compatible with ONAP
20 - It can also serve as a list of requirements that service providers can
21 use in RFPs for selecting VNFs/PNFs
22 - It will also be used as a basis for testing and certification of
23 xNFs for compliance with ONAP; ONAP projects such as the VNF
24 Validation Project will uses these xNFs requirements to build test
25 cases to validate xNFs for compliance with ONAP.