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1. The initial scope is for virtual machine based workloads, but work on containers must also start.
2. OpenStack private and public clouds, and Azure as a public cloud are the minimum that the initial model must handle.
3. It is assumed, for the initial model, that VNFs use only the set of similar cloud resources listed here.

Principles

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1. The data model should be illustrated by examples, that tend to show that model expresses what it needs to.

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   1. 1. For example, demonstrate the mappings from the data needed by the APIs to the

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   1. 1. cloud infrastructure data model.

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   1. Align with ETSI NFV IFA 015 as much as is reasonable. Originality in data modeling is not a virtue.

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   1. Creating and maintaining modeled data is expensive. Only what is necessary should be modeled.

   Proposals