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From a high-level perspective, the proposal will allow VSP, when uploaded into SDC, to go through a set of checks to make sure it is (1) compliant to the deployment environment and (2) fetch prior certifications. The checks can be done during the VSP validation stage by implementing plug-ins to SDC and introducing a "registry" to be consulted. Figure 1 shows the proposal in a high-level view.
Figure 1: High-Level proposal.
As outlined in the Rationale section above, integrating these checks into SDC will allow queries to VTP and the OVP portal as well as to third-party repositories. Thus the APIs will be designed to interoperate SDC with that range of end-points. In order to meet the Dublin release schedule for the development of plug-ins and APIs, a registry is planned to be implemented as a discrete hosted component outside ONAP. Integration to VTP and OVP portal can be performed when those environments are ready.
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