Open Broadband: Broadband Access Abstraction (OB-BAA)

Version 6.0.0

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Overview
3. Architecture
4. Installing OB-BAA
5. Using OB-BAA

Introduction

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Revision History

Release 6

• OB-BAA release 6.0.0 (July 2023)

Release 5

• OB-BAA release 5.0.0 (April 2022)
• OB-BAA release 5.1.0 (November 2022)

Release 4

• OB-BAA release 4.0.0 (September 2020)
• OB-BAA release 4.1.0 (July 2021)

Release 3

• OB-BAA release 3.0.0 (February 2020)

A### Release 2

• OB-BAA release 2.0.0 (February 2019)
• OB-BAA release 2.1.0 (July 2019)

Release 1

• OB-BAA release 1.0.0 (July 2018)
• OB-BAA release 1.1.0 (October 2018)

Participants

How to Get Involved

Involvement in OB-BAA requires that you sign the Broadband Forum's Contribution License Agreement (CLA)/Project Participation Agreement. Information regarding the agreement can be found here. Send the signed agreement to: info@broadband-forum.org.

Issues and bugs can be submitted using the Issues feature on the OB-BAA Github repository.

License

The OB-BAA project's license is structure is to provide a RAND-Z (Apache 2.0) license for the program's software license and keep the Broadband Forum’s license for the project's artifacts.

Program (Software) License

The OB-BAA project is considered a RAND-Z open source project for program deliverable (e.g, source code and associated object code). The program deliverables use the Apache 2.0 license.

Project Artifacts

The OB-BAA project's artifacts (e.g., documentation, architecture specifications, functional behavior descriptions, Epics, Stories) use the Broadband Forums IPR policy.

Third Party Tools and License

The following tools are used by the OB-BAA project:

The following tools are used in and delivered by the OB-BAA project:

The following tools are used in and delivered for the Control Relay Service by the OB-BAA project:

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