Global review of the NetReady requirements documentcolorado.1.0

This patchset enables a global review of the entire NetReady
requirements document. Changes to the document shall be pushed
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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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+Summary and Conclusion
+======================
+
+This document presented the results of the OPNFV NetReady (Network Readiness)
+project ([NETREADY]_). It described a selection of NFV-related networking use
+cases and their corresponding networking requirements. Moreover, for every use
+case, it describes an associated gap analysis which analyses the aforementioned
+networking requirements with respect to the current OpenStack networking
+architecture.
+
+The contents of the current document are the selected use cases and their
+derived requirements and identified gaps for OPNFV C release.
+
+OPNFV NetReady is open to take any further use cases under analysis in later
+OPNFV releases. The project backlog ([NETREADY-JIRA]_) lists the use cases and
+topics planned to be developed in future releases of OPNFV.
+
+Based on the gap analyses, we draw the following conclusions:
+
+* Besides current requirements and gaps identified in support of NFV networking,
+  more and more new NFV networking services are to be innovated in the near future.
+  Those innovations will bring additional requirements, and more significant gaps
+  will be expected. On the other hand, NFV networking business requires it
+  to be made easy to innovate, quick to develop, and agile to deploy and operate.
+  Therefore, a model-driven, extensible framework is expected to support NFV
+  networking on-demand in order to accelerate time-to-market and achieve business
+  agility for innovations in NFV networking business.
+
+* Neutron networks are implicitly, because of their reliance on subnets, L2
+  domains. L2 network overlays are the only way to implement Neutron networks
+  because of their semantics. However, L2 networks are inefficient ways to
+  implement cloud networking, and while this is not necessarily a problem for
+  enterprise use cases with moderate traffic it can add expense to the
+  infrastructure of NFV cases where networking is heavily used and efficient use
+  of capacity is key.
+
+* In NFV environment it should be possible to execute network administrator tasks
+  without OpenStack administrator rights.
+
+* In a multi-site setup it should be possible to manage the connection between
+  the sites in a programmable way.
+
+The latest version of this document can be found at [SELF]_.