1. Use Case Steering Team (UCST) Kickoff
Aseem Parikh
ONF
August 2017

2. UCST Role
UCST is responsible for identifying and prioritizing use-cases that will be developed into solutions within the ONF-led projects (in the UCST context the term “use case” can also mean a demo or PoC).
The primary role of the UCST is to work with the operators to prioritize the use cases most important to member operators. The development work of the ONF community will be prioritized on those use cases.
Some of the work done by the UCST:
Receive proposals for use cases
Actively drive debate on the merit and priority of the use cases
Help shape use cases to have the most impact
Own/maintain the priority list of use cases and the process for its evolution
Ensure each use case has operator support - preferably multiple operators for each use case
Own finding the product owner for each use case  that is prioritized so that as the use case gets worked on, it has a product owner to prioritize work and guide the vision for the end result
Work with ONF to find the engineering leader and to set up brigades

3. UCST Formation & Composition
The formation of ONF Use Case Steering Team (UCST) was approved by ONF board in July 2017
UCST will be composed of:
One representative from each ONF Partner-level network operator 
Ideally a technical lead from business unit responsible for product delivery  
UCST Co-lead comes from this group (elected by partner representatives of UCST)
Three elected representatives from ONF Innovator-level Operators
Must be a technical lead from business unit responsible for product delivery
Three elected representatives from ONF Partner-level Vendors
Must be a product manager from a Product BU, and not their research or architecture groups 
Three ONF representatives (board appointed, includes the UCST Co-Lead)

4. UCST Operator Partner Representatives
The seven ONF Operator Partners have appointed their representatives to the UCST
Partner
UCST Rep - First Last < >
Office Location 1
AT&T
Tom Anschutz
Atlanta, USA 2
China Unicom
Wei Zhou
Beijing, China 3
Comcast
Yiu Lee
Philladelphia, USA 4 DT
Hans-Jörg  Kolbe
Darmstadt, Germany 5
Google
Anees Shaikh
Silicon Valley, CA 6
NTT Group
Toru Furusawa 7
Verizon
Sandhya Narayan

5. ONF Representative and Co-Chair of UCST
ONF Board appointed Aseem Parikh as ONF representative and Co-Chair of UCST
Aseem serves as Vice President of Solutions and Partnerships of ONF/ON.Lab since November 2016
In this role, he works actively with ONF’s Operator members and has built good relationships with them
He brings 25 years experience as a technologist and entrepreneur, with expertise in product management and strategy targeting the service provider and telecom markets
More background at

6. Kicking off the UCST
ONF Board approved the following recommendation in the August meeting:
The UCST should start its activities with the core group of eight representatives identified
Elections for the remaining seats to be held in late August, with a goal to have the UCST fully constituted by September
Aseem to host a kick off web-meeting of the UCST in the next four weeks to
Align the core group wrt UCST’s role, goals and composition
Elect a Co-Chair from within the seven Operator representatives
Agree on simple processes and templates for effective working of the UCST
Agree on calendar for monthly meeting and locations for the quarterly f2f meetings

7. Election Process for electing remaining UCST members Three representatives from ONF Innovator-level operators, plus Three elected representatives from ONF Partner-level vendors
Composition of the voting community
All ONF board members 
Two UCST co-chairs and 6 remaining UCST appointees of Partner-level Operators
ONOS and CORD TST leads and members
All ONF Partner-level representatives (operators and vendors) 
All representatives from ONF Innovator-level Operators
Vote - each member of voting community gets up to three votes for three different candidates per election
In the case of any kind of tie (or other conflict as in 2 people from the same Innovator member are getting elected), the chairman of the board chooses the 3 winners based on their judgement of the candidates profiles and the goals in front of the community

8. UCST Online Resources Email Alias: ucst@opennetworking.org
UCST Google Calendar: TBD
Web: opennetworking.org/ucst (under construction)
Wiki: wiki.opencord.org/??? Wiki.onos.org/???