Reaction to the goals of open architecture and administration by The Linux Foundation have been mostly positive.[4][5] While initial criticism centered on concerns that this group could be used by incumbent technology vendors to stifle innovation, most of the companies signed up as members do not sell incumbent networking technology.[6]
Technical steering committee
For governance of the project, the technical steering committee (TSC) provides technical oversight over the project.[7] The TSC is able to hold voting on major changes to the project. As of June 2022,[8] the TSC includes:
By 2015, user companies began participating in upstream development. The largest, actively contributing companies include PANTHEON.tech,[10]Orange, Red Hat, and Ericsson.[11] At the time of the Carbon release in May 2017, the project estimated that over 1 billion subscribers accessing OpenDaylight-based networks, in addition to its usage within large enterprises.[12]
There is a dedicated OpenDaylight Wiki,[13] and mailing lists.[14]
Technology
Projects
The platform is described as a modular, open-source platform for automating networks. Part of the concept of modularity are over 50 projects, which address & extend the capabilities of networks managed by OpenDaylight. Each project has a formal structure, teams and meetings to discuss releases, functionality and code.[15] Projects include BGPCEP, TransportPCE, NETCONF, YANG Tools, and others.[16]
Releases
Releases are named after the atomic number of chemical elements, including the corresponding number.
Release Name
Release Date
Chlorine (17)
October 2022
Sulfur (16)
May 2022
Phosphorus (15)
September 2021
Silicon (14)
March 2021
Aluminium (13)
September 2020
Magnesium (12)
March 2020
Sodium (11)
September 2019
Neon (10)
March 2019
Fluorine (9)
August 2018
Oxygen (8)
March 2018
Nitrogen (7)
September 2017
Carbon (6)
June 2017
Boron (5)
November 2016
Beryllium (4)
February 2016
Lithium (3)
June 2015
Helium (2)
October 2014
Hydrogen (1)
February 2014
Members
Originally there were three tiers of membership for OpenDaylight: Platinum, Gold and Silver, with varying levels of commitment.
As of January 2018, OpenDaylight became a project within the LF Networking Foundation,[17] which consolidated membership across multiple projects into a common governance structure. Most OpenDaylight members became members of the new LF Networking Foundation.
^Hinkle, Mark "The Linux Foundation's Collaboration – OpenDaylight Project – Open Source SDN" (4/08/2013) [1]Archived 2013-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
^McNickle, Michelle "SDN blog roundup: Open Daylight, Cisco's networking truths, OpenStack" (2013) [2]Archived 2013-05-21 at the Wayback Machine