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SDN Points of Contact

Listed below are some Points of Contact (PoCs) for United States (US) government organizations and non-government organizations including open source communities, standards development organizations (SDOs), and software development organizations (SWDOs) engaged in developing, analyzing or evaluating software or hardware employing Software-Defined Networking (SDN) or associated technologies. 

An SWDO is an organization formed by one or more interested individuals, non-commercial organizations and commercial companies. SDOs are similar to SWDOs in many organizational aspects, but their purposes are quite different. The purpose of an SDO is to develop, publish and maintain standards and policies within a defined scope of responsibility. One purpose of an SWDO is to develop, publish, maintain, and/or promote use of software within a defined scope of responsibility, and (for a few SWDOs) another purpose is to function as an SDO. An SWDO often has other purposes in addition to software development. The scope of an SDO or SWDO may be self-defined or it may be defined by a higher level organization.

These PoCs may be used to discover and ask questions about their past results, current activities, and future directions. This list is not intended to be either authoritative or exhaustive.

Reminder: This information is not to be used for commercial purposes, such as promotion of commercial products or services. 

SDN Points of Contact
NameWebsiteContact
US Government
  American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) https://www.actiac.org/  ACT-IAC [at] actiac.org
 IT Sector Coordinating Council (IT SCC) https://www.it-scc.org/ https://www.it-scc.org/contact.html
 National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) https://www.cisa.gov/nstac nstac [at] cisa.dhs.gov
Non-Government Organizations
Open Source Communities
 Anuket under the auspices of The LF https://anuket.io/ [previously Common NFVi Telco Taskforce (CNTT) and Open Platform for NFV Project, Inc. (OPNFV)] (See announcement.) https://anuket.io/contact/
 The Ceph Foundation under the auspices of The LF https://ceph.com/  ceph-community [at] lists.ceph.com
 Central Office Re-Architected as a Datacenter (CORD) under the auspices of the ONF https://opennetworking.org/cord/  info [at] opennetworking.org
 Cloud Foundry Foundation under the auspices of The LF https://www.cloudfoundary.org/the-foundry/ Contact Us
 Cloud Foundry Foundation active projects https://github.com/cloudfoundry community
 Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) under the auspices of The LF https://www.cncf.io/ https://www.cncf.io/about/contact/
 Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) under the auspices of The LF http://dpdk.org/  admin [at] dpdk.org
 The Disaggregated Enterprise Network Technology (DENT) project under the auspices of The LF https://dent.dev/ https://dent.dev/join
 Fast Data Project (FD.io) under the auspices of The LF https://fd.io/  info [at] fd.io
 flexiWAN https://flexiwan.com/  click on CONTACT US
 Gohan https://gohan.cloudwan.io/  info_cloudwan [at] ntti3.com
 Grafeas ("Scribe" in Greek) https://grafeas.io/  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/grafeas-users
 Kata Containers under the auspices of the Open Infrastructure Foundation https://katacontainers.io/  mailman [at] lists.katacontainers.io
 Knative https://knative.dev  Knative users Group
 The Linux Foundation (The LF) (See Note below) https://www.linuxfoundation.org/  info [at] linuxfoundation.org
 The Linux Foundation Europe https://linuxfoundation.eu/  Info (at) linuxfoundation.eu
 LF Projects, LLC Home - LF Projects, LLC  manager [at] lfprojects.org
 LF EDGE, under the auspices of The LF https://www.lfedge.org/ (umbrella organization for projects including Akraino, Alvarium, Baetyl, EdgeX, eKupier, Foundry, Fledge, Home Edge, Open Glossary for Edge Computing, Open Horizon, Project EVE, Secure Device OnBoard and State of the Edge)

Complete form on Contact Us webpage and click on submit
 NEPHIO Project, under the auspices of The LF Nephio – Linux Foundation Project Complete form on Contact webpage and click on SUBMIT
 Netconf Working Group, under the auspices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) https://trac.ietf.org/trac/netconf/wiki  netconf [at] ietf.org
 Open Baton https://openbaton.github.io/  info [at] openbaton.org
 Open Compute Project (OCP) http://www.opencompute.org/  opencompute-networking [at] lists.opencompute.org
 Open Container Initiative (OCI) under the auspices of The LF https://www.opencontainers.org/  info [at] opencontainers.org
 Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework https://github.com/ocsf/  Read the OCSF Contribution Guide
 Open Distributed Infrastructure Management (ODIM) under the auspices of The LF https://odim.io  odim-general [at] lists.odim.io
 OpenFastPath Foundation https://www.OpenDataPlane.org/  odp [at] lists.opendataplane.org
 Open Modeling and Simulation Architecture (OpenMSA) https://ubiqube.com/openmsa/  OpenMSA, a Google group (Subscription required)
 Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) under the auspices of The LF https://www.onap.org/ (a merger of the Open-O project and the AT&T Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management, and Policy [ECOMP] platform)  At the bottom of the opening page, fill in the Stay Connected form and click on SIGN UP
 Open Source Hybrid IP/SDN (OSHI) http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/twiki/bin/view/Oshi (OSHI is defunct. Website is for reference.)  oshi-list [at] googlegroups.com
 Open Source MANagement and Orchestration (MANO), under the auspices of the ETSI https://osm.etsi.org/  OSMsupport [at] etsi.org
 Open Source Network Operating System (ONOS) under the auspices of The LF https://opennetworking.org/onos/  info [at] opennetworking.org
 Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) under the auspices of The LF https://openssf.org/  https://openssf.org/getinvolved/
 Open vSwitch under the auspices of The LF http://openvswitch.org/  discuss [at] openvswitch.org
 OpenConfig http://www.openconfig.net/ https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en%23!forum/netopenconfig#!forum/os-openconfig
 The OpenDaylight (ODL) Project under the auspices of The LF https://www.opendaylight.org/  info [at] opendaylight.org
  OpenFlowSec.org http://www.openflowsec.org/  click on Contact Us button
  OpenSwitch (OPX) Network Operating System (NOS) under the auspices of The LF https://www.openswitch.net/  mailman [at] lists.openswitch.net
  Platform for Network Data Analytics (PNDA) under the auspices of The LF http://pnda.io/ info [at] pnda.io
 Project Floodlight https://floodlight.atlassian.net/wiki/home https://groups.io/g/floodlight
 P4 Language Consortium under the auspices of the ONF and The LF https://p4.org  p4-discuss [at] lists.p4.org
 RouteFlow Project https://routeflow.github.io/RouteFlow/ https://groups.google.com/group/routeflow-discuss/topics
 Streaming Network Analytics System (SNAS) under the auspices of The LF https://snas.io/ https://www.snas.io/aboutus/
 Tungsten Fabric under the auspices of The LF https://tungsten.io/ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tungsten-users     (In Mar 2018 Opencontrail finalized a merger with Tungsten Fabric)
 Zuul under the auspices of the Open Infrastructure Foundation https://zuul-ci.org/  zuul-announce [at] lists.zuul-ci.org
SDO Points of Contact
 The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) https://www.3gpp.org/  info [at] 3gpp.org
 The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) (See Note below) https://www.etsi.org/  info [at] etsi.org
 Industry Specifications Group (ISG) for Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), under the auspices of ETSI https://www.etsi.org/technologies/nfv  ISGsupport [at] etsi.org
 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Software Defined Networks Initiative https://sdn.ieee.org/  https://sdn.ieee.org/about
 Interface to the Routing System (I2RS), under the auspices of the IETF https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/i2rs/charter/  i2rs [at] ietf.org
 ITU-T SG-13: Future networks, with focus on IMT-2020, cloud computing and trusted network infrastructures, under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union – Telecommunication Standardization Sector  https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2017-2020/13/Pages/default.aspx  tsbsg13 [at] itu.int
 Network Services Interface Working Group https://www.redmine.org/ Help Forums
 Network Services Management Work Group, under the auspices of the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. https://www.dmtf.org/standards/nsmwg  https://www.dmtf.org/contact/working-groups
Fill in the Contact form. In the Working Group -Select- box, choose the "Network Services Management Working Group". After completing the Contact form, click on Submit
 Small Cell Forum

https://www.smallcellforum.org/ 

  Click on Get In Touch, fill out the contact form, and click on SUBMIT FORM
SWDO Points of Contact
 Anuket under the auspices of The LF https://anuket.io/ [previously Common NFVi Telco Taskforce (CNTT) and Open Platform for NFV Project, Inc. (OPNFV)] (See announcement.)

 https://anuket.io/contact/
 Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN)  https://www.cengn.ca/  info [at] cengn.ca
 Groupe Spécial Mobile (GSM) Association (GSMA)  https://www.gsma.com/  On the Contact Us web page, complete the form, check the Email Consent box, and click on SUBMIT
 Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)  https://www.mef.net/  https://www.mef.net/#contact-us-popup
 Open Networking Foundation (ONF)  https://www.opennetworking.org/  https://www.opennetworking.org/contact/
 Open Networking User Group (ONUG)  https://www.onug.net  Fill out the Contact form and click on Submit
 Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN)  https://www.o-ran.org/  At the bottom of the opening page, fill in the Get Latest News and Updates form and click on SIGN UP
 Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) and Zero Trust Working Group, under the auspices of the Cloud Security Alliance  https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/working-groups/software-defined-perimeter-and-zero-trust/  info [at] cloudsecurityalliance.org

 Note: The ETSI and The LF signed a Memorandum of Understanding in April, 2019, enabling industry standards and open source collaboration.

The IEEE SDN Initiative maintains a collection of PoCs for open source communities, SDOs, and SWDOs (which they call Hybrid Standard/Open Source organizations) available here, while the IEEE SDN Wiki maintains a collection of PoCs for SDOs available here. The opensource.com website maintains a collection of PoCs for open source communities. Another collection of PoCs which includes open source communities and SWDOs engaged in developing, analyzing and evaluating SDN or associated technologies is available here (registration required). A survey of international SDOs efforts to develop, analyze and evaluate standards for SDN and associated technologies is available here.


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