Audience: internal or external

Goals: to identify where projects fit in the open source landscape, identify similarities and gaps of projects, in that landscape and look for dependencies and touchpoints between projects.  

• Describe the functionality of each project
• Describe the interfaces

Target audience: Pre-requisites - NFV, SDN, Network automation...

Tentative delivery date March-31/2020 

Draft dates:

Section 3 - No later than Mid January

Remaining sections - Mid February

1. Work group members and areas of expertise

++++ - Expert knowledge

+++ - Very good knowledge

++ - Good knowledge

+ - Some knowledge

<blank> - Heard about it, but not sure what it does exactly

Contacts for identifying experts:

FD.IO - Ed Warnicke ,SNAS- Trishan de Lanerolle  ,PNDA- Casey Cain 

2. Architecture diagram

External landscape:

Internal Architecture:

Project relationship diagram

3. White paper outline

1. Introduction 
   1. State the target audience and technical pre-requisites
   2. Industry trends, open source in networking, etc.
   3. Reasoning for the need for LFN
   4. Goals of LFN
2. LFN landscape
   1. Definition of the various layers and domains
   2. Mapping of projects to domains
3. Brief project overview
   

   1. For each <project> in <LFN> describe (goals, technologies, key features, etc.)

   2. 1-2 pages per project. Include reference to project wiki for further reading.
4. Inter-relations and interfaces
   1. Inter dependencies
   2. Integration points
   3. Functional flows
5. E2E use cases
   1. How do all (or some of) the projects work together to provide an E2E solution to a use case.