Work Programme - Work Item Detailed Report

	Work Item Reference	ETSI Doc. Number	STF	Technical Body in Charge	Download Standard
	RGS/NFV-SOL018ed541	GS NFV-SOL 018		NFV SOL
	Current Status (Click to View Full Schedule)	Latest Version	Cover Date	Standstill	Creation Date
	Publication (2026-07-22)	5.4.1	2026-07-22	View Standstill Information	2025-09-18
	Rapporteur	Technical Officer		Harmonised Standard
	Shitao Li	Antoine Mouquet		No

Title	Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 5; Protocols and Data Models; Profiling specification of protocol and data model solutions for OS Container management and orchestration OS container mgmt stage 3
Scope and Field of Application	This revision of NFV-SOL 018 continues the development of the specification as part of the NFV Release 5. This edition will extend the specification of protocol and data models to support the Release 5 features. The scope of the former edition is summarized hereafter: The work item provides a mapping of the NFV object model for OS container management and orchestration to managed objects of Kubernetes® and Helm(TM) as specified by the CNCF® along with a specification of a mapping between a common set of input parameters (e.g., derived from VNFD/NSD and/or NFV-MANO RESTful APIs) and output parameters associated to the management and orchestration of the referred managed objects. It profiles the reference Kubernetes® API, Helm(TM) documentation and Docker(TM) registry API as NFV protocol and data model solution for OS container management and orchestration, OS container workload based on an MCIOP, OS container image management, CIS instance management and management of Managed CIS Cluster Objects (MCCO). The latest published versions of the reference Kubernetes® API, Helm(TM) documentation and Docker(TM) registry API are profiled against the requirements on the functions and the management service interfaces of the Container Infrastructure Service Management (CISM) and Container Image Registry (CIR) functions as specified in ETSI GS NFV-IFA 040, ETSI GS NFV-IFA 036 and ETSI GS NFV-IFA 010. The work item includes guidelines and rules on how the profiled and referenced solutions can be adopted in a way that facilitates their integration with NFV-MANO framework solutions. The resulting deliverable will contain normative provisions.
Supporting Organizations	Docomo, ZTE, Huawei, China Telecom, NEC

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2026-06-15 mouqueta Final draft proposal in contribution NFV(26)000069r1 was Accepted by 5.3.4

2026-06-15 mouqueta Draft contributed - V 5.3.4 contributed for Decision in NFV(26)000069r1 as Final draft

2026-06-15 mouqueta A new draft is uploaded - V 5.3.4 with status: Final draft for approval - with comment: Draft addressing comments received during the RC

2026-06-15 mouqueta Final draft proposal in contribution NFV(26)000069 was Noted by NFV (see RC NFV(26)DEC405)

2026-04-02 kuno Draft contributed - V 5.3.3 contributed for Decision in NFV(26)000069 as Final draft

2026-03-10 kuno Final draft proposal in contribution NFVSOL(26)000054 was Noted by NFV SOL

2026-03-06 lishi Draft contributed - V 5.3.3 contributed for Decision in NFV(26)000042 as Final draft

2026-03-03 lishi A new draft is uploaded - V 5.3.3 with status: Final draft for approval

2026-02-05 hassett Draft contributed - V 5.3.2 contributed for Decision in NFVSOL(26)000054 as Final draft

2026-02-05 hassett A new draft is uploaded - V 5.3.2 with status: Final draft for approval

2025-09-18 vacherc The work item proposal is included in document NFV(25)000181r1