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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.
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