Governance

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Model

 version 1.0 ratified at 2/9/15 board meeting 

Governance of the ONOS™ project is a hybrid. It attempts to take what has worked well for open source projects and leave out what didn’t work so well. Mostly, it is governed as a technical meritocracy – those who contribute the most have the most influence on the technical direction and decisions. There is also an element of benevolent dictatorshipstewardship. This is what gives the project its strong vision, goals, and technical shepherding. More specifically, ONOS governance is

• A technical meritocracy because technical teams manage themselves to do what is technically right for the community. People who make the most contributions to their teams have the most influence. In addition, technical project leaders and steering team members are elected by active contributors.

• A benevolent dictatorship stewardship because ON.lab’s board of directors retains the right to select the chairman of the ONOS advisory board and the leaders of the technical steering team, release management team, and community team. ON.Lab anticipates that it will rarely exercise this right, and that the project will operate autonomously; however, it retains this right in order to ensure that the project is successful. The ONOS project resides with Open Networking Laboratory ("ON.Lab"), a nonprofit public benefit corporation.

   

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• Chairman - Guru Parulkar
  

• AT&T - Al Blackburn
  

• NTT Communications - Yukio Ito
  

• Ciena - Francois Locoh Donou

• Cisco - David Ward

• Ericsson -  Anita Frisell
  

• Fujitsu - Masayuki Seno Masayuki
  

• Huawei - Jun Zha
  Intel - 

• NEC - Shunichiro Tejima
  

• SK Telecom - TBD

Elections

The Chairman of the Board is chosen by the Open Networking Laboratory Board of Directors. Each organization is responsible for nominating their board member. The chairman of the board must approve the nomination. Board members are (re) elected every year. The first election will be in February 2015. If any board member must leave before the end of their term, their organization will nominate a new member and that member must be approved by the Chairman of the Board. If the Chairman of the Board must step down, then the ON.Lab Board of Directors will select a new Chairman.

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There are three classes of voting: ON.Lab, Vendors and Service Providers. Each receives votes according to the following allocation of 100 votes. Votes may be fractional.

• ON.Lab Chairman - 10 votes

• Vendor - 40/(number of vendors)

• Service Provider - 50/(number of service providers)

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•  AT&T - Tom Anschutz, team lead

• NTT - Yoichi Sato

• SK Telecom - TBD

Membership Additions

The team representatives will be appointed on a yearly basis by their organization, or when they join ONOS, except for the team lead who will be elected every year by the Board of Advisors. How each service provider chooses their representative is outside the scope of this document. The first election of team lead and members will be held in February 2015. At the time of the election, the following will take place:

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