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 possibly even promote use of software (or devices and related software) within a defined scope of responsibility, and (for a few SWDOs) another purpose is to function as an SDO for that software. An SWDO may have additional purposes that are not limited to software development, such as hardware development. The scope of any SDO or SWDO may be self-defined or their scope 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
Name	Website	Contact
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 LF	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 1 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
Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance (P-QCA) under the auspices of The LF	https://pqca.org	https://pqca.org/#contact
Project Floodlight	https://floodlight.atlassian.net/wiki/home	https://groups.io/g/floodlight
P4 Language Consortium under the auspices of 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 1 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) (See note 2 below.)	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 1: The ETSI and The LF signed a Memorandum of Understanding in April, 2019, enabling industry standards and open-source collaboration.

Note 2: The ONF announced in Dec 2023 that it is merging its portfolio of open source networking projects into The LF as independent projects.

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.