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Preferred labs

CVP Governance (from the CVP Governance Doc)

Vendors may request service from third parties to conduct OPNFV compliance verification and collect results. Compliance verification occurs as documented in “Self Compliance Verification” above.  The compliance verification results and documentation may be submitted by the third party on behalf of the vendor requesting the use of an OPNFV Logo/Trademark.

OPNFV may identify organizations providing third-party verification as Preferred Labs and list them on the OPNFV web site. OPNFV does not endorse or sponsor Preferred Labs’ services. Vendors are not required to use OPNFV Preferred Labs.

Notes

•  Third-party labs could be member or non-member companies

Meaning/Purpose

Preferred labs are third party labs who can help others achieve the CVP logo. These labs will be listed on the OPNFV website. These labs that are actively engaged with the OPNFV development/testing community AND are experienced with Dovetail. We expect that they can help with: 

• OPNFV testing on various types of hardware
• Answering questions about OPNFV and CVP/Dovetail
• Providing feedback/enhancements for Dovetail/CVP

Fees 

Any fees charged for testing will be negotiated between the lab and the company submitting products.  OPNFV will not be involved in the transaction, and will not collect fees on behalf of the "Preferred Lab".

OPNFV may charge a fee for reviewing results.

Qualifications for "Preferred Lab" status

Labs shall apply for Preferred Lab status to the C&C Committee.  The C&C Committee is looking for evidence that the lab has experience with OPNFV/CVP/Dovetail. This experience could be demonstrated by the criteria below. 

• Experience with OPNFV development and testing, which could be demonstrated through one or more of the following:
  • run pharos community lab and listed on the community wiki page 
    • support at least one release
  • Support at least one plugfest (making resources available and assisting test participants)
  • Lab-as-a-Service
  • Active participation in C&C and/or Dovetail
• Experience with Dovetail test suite (demonstrate successful execution in a lab setting)
• must have a Pharos-compliant environment including six or more bare metal servers (experience and environment to support CVP testing)
• opt-in from the lab (articulate how a lab meets the criteria)

Non-Qualifications/un-criteria

OPNFV membership

Experience and/or ownership of a particular type of hardware 

Expectations for Preferred Labs

participate in CVP reviews 

participate in Dovetail

• system availability
• contribute to Dovetail development

Participate in testing community

Limitations

Can't review test results produced by their lab

C&C may remove labs from the "Preferred Labs" list for problems with quality or trust. C&C would make a recommendation to be reviewed by Board and/or TSC.