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Table of Contents

• Common References
• Cloud Native and Kubernetes References
• Network related References
• O-RAN, 5G and Miscellaenous References
• Security Related References
  • NIST Security Related References

Common References

Ref	Doc Number	Title
[1]	ETSI GR NFV 003 V1.5.1	"Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Terminology for Main Concepts in NFV", January 2020. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gr/NFV/001_099/003/01.05.01_60/gr_NFV003v010501p.pdf
[2]	RFC 2119	“Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels”, S. Bradner, March 1997. Available at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
[3]	ETSI GS NFV 002 V1.2.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Architectural Framework”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV/001_099/002/01.02.01_60/gs_NFV002v010201p.pdf
[4]	ETSI GR NFV-IFA 029 V3.3.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 3; Architecture; Report on the Enhancements of the NFV architecture towards "Cloud-native" and "PaaS" ”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gr/NFV-IFA/001_099/029/03.03.01_60/gr_NFV-IFA029v030301p.pdf
[5]	ETSI GS NFV-TST 008 V3.2.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 3; Testing; NFVI Compute and Network Metrics Specification”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-TST/001_099/008/03.02.01_60/gs_NFV-TST008v030201p.pdf
[6]	ETSI GS NFV-IFA 027 V2.4.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 2; Management and Orchestration; Performance Measurements Specification”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-IFA/001_099/027/02.04.01_60/gs_nfv-ifa027v020401p.pdf
[7]	ETSI GS NFV-IFA 002 V2.1.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV);Acceleration Technologies; VNF Interfaces Specification”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-IFA/001_099/002/02.01.01_60/gs_NFV-IFA002v020101p.pdf
[8]	ETSI NFV-IFA 019 V3.1.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Acceleration Technologies; Acceleration Resource Management Interface Specification; Release 3”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/nfv-ifa/001_099/019/03.01.01_60/gs_nfv-ifa019v030101p.pdf
[9]	ETSI GS NFV-INF 004 V1.1.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Infrastructure; Hypervisor Domain”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-INF/001_099/004/01.01.01_60/gs_NFV-INF004v010101p.pdf
[10]	ETSI GS NFV-IFA 005 V3.1.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 3; Management and Orchestration; Or-Vi reference point - Interface and Information Model Specification”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/nfv-ifa/001_099/005/03.01.01_60/gs_nfv-ifa005v030101p.pdf
[11]	DMTF RedFish	“DMTF RedFish Specification”. Available at https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish
[12]	NGMN Overview on 5GRAN Functional Decomposition ver 1.0	“NGMN Overview on 5GRAN Functional Decomposition”. Available at https://www.ngmn.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/2018/180226_NGMN_RANFSX_D1_V20_Final.pdf
[13]	ORAN-WG4.IOT.0-v01.00	“Front haul Interoperability Test Specification(IOT)”. Available at https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad774cce74940d7115044b0/t/5db36ffa820b8d29022b6d08/1572040705841/ORAN-WG4.IOT.0-v01.00.pdf/2018/180226_NGMN_RANFSX_D1_V20_Final.pdf
[14]	ETSI GS NFV-TST 009 V3.1.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 3; Testing; Specification of Networking Benchmarks and Measurement Methods for NFVI”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-TST/001_099/009/03.01.01_60/gs_NFV-TST009v030101p.pdf
[15]	ETSI GR NFV IFA-012	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 3; Management and Orchestration; Report on Os-Ma-Nfvo reference point - application and service management use cases and recommendations”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gr/NFV-IFA/001_099/012/03.01.01_60/gr_NFV-IFA012v030101p.pdf
[16]	ETSI GS NFV-SEC 001 V1.1.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); NFV Security; Problem Statement”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-SEC/001_099/001/01.01.01_60/gs_nfv-sec001v010101p.pdf
[17]	ETSI GS NFV-SEC 003 V1.1.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); NFV Security; Security and Trust Guidance”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-SEC/001_099/003/01.01.01_60/gs_NFV-SEC003v010101p.pdf
[18]	ETSI GS NFV-SEC 013 V3.1.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 3; NFV Security; Security Specification for MANO Components and Reference points”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-SEC/001_099/014/03.01.01_60/gs_NFV-SEC014v030101p.pdf
[19]	ETSI GS NFV-SEC 013 V2.6.1	“Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 2; Security; VNF Package Security Specification ”. Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-SEC/001_099/021/02.06.01_60/gs_nfv-sec021v020601p.pdf
[20]	GSMA FS.31 V2.0 February 2020	“Baseline Security controls ”. Available at https://www.gsma.com/security/resources/fs-31-gsma-baseline-security-controls
[21]	GSMA whitepaper January 2021	“Open Networking & the Security of Open Source Software deployment ”. Available at https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/resources/open-networking-the-security-of-open-source-software-deployment
[22]	Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and SAFECode	“The Six Pillars of DevSecOps: Automation (2020) ”. Available at https://safecode.org/the-six-pillars-of-devsecops-automation
[23]	ISO/IEC 27000:2018	Information technology — Security techniques — Information security management systems — Overview and vocabulary. Available at https://www.iso.org/standard/73906.html.
[24]	Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)	“Information Security Management through Reflexive Security ”. Available at https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/information-security-management-through-reflexive-security/
[25]	NIST SP 800-207	“Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) ”. Available at https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-207.pdf
[26]	Open Infrastructure	“Edge Computing: Next Steps in Architecture, Design and Testing ”. Available at https://www.openstack.org/use-cases/edge-computing/edge-computing-next-steps-in-architecture-design-and-testing/
[27]	RFC5905	"Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification", IETF RFC, Available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5905
[28]	RFC5906	"Network Time Protocol Version 4: Autokey Specification", IETF RFC, Available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5906
[29]	RFC5907	"Definitions of Managed Objects for Network Time Protocol Version 4 (NTPv4)", IETF RFC, Available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5907
[30]	RFC5908	"Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server Option for DHCPv6", IETF RFC, Available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5908
[31]	IEEE 1588-2019	"Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems", Available at https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1588-2019.html
[32]	ITU-T G.8262	"Timing characteristics of a synchronous equipment slave clock", Available at https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.8262
[33]	ITU-T G.8275.2	"Precision time protocol telecom profile for time/phase synchronization with partial timing support from the network", Available at https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.8275.2
[34]	GSMA OPG.02	"Operator Platform Telco Edge Requirements", Available at https://www.gsma.com/operatorplatform

Cloud Native and Kubernetes References

Ref	Doc Number	Title
		"Extended Cloud Native Principles". Available at https://networking.cloud-native-principles.org/cloud-native-principles.
		"DANM". Available at https://github.com/nokia/danm.
		"Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI)". Available at https://kubernetes.io/blog/2016/12/container-runtime-interface-cri-in-kubernetes/.
		"Multus". Available at https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni.
		"Node Feature Discovery (NFD)". Available at https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/node-feature-discovery/stable/get-started/index.html.
		"Open Container Initiative (OCI)". Available at https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec.

Network related References

Ref	Doc Number	Title
	IETF-RFC 2544	"Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices". Available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2544.
	ITU-T Y.3500	"Information Technology – Cloud computing – Overview and vocabulary"; SERIES Y: Global Information Infrastructure, Internet Protocol Aspects and Next-Generation Networks: Cloud Computing. Available at https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-Y.3500/recommendation.asp?lang=en&parent=T-REC-Y.3500-201408-I.
		"P4 Language Consortium" (Packet Processing Programming). Available at https://p4.org/.

O-RAN, 5G and Miscellaenous References

Ref	Doc Number	Title
	ITU-T IMT-2020	"International Mobile Telecommunications-2020 (IMT-2020) Standard for 5G networks". Available at https://www.itu.int/pub/T-TUT-IMT.
	O-RAN.WG6.AAL-GAnP-v01.00	"O-RAN Acceleration Abstraction Layer General Aspects an Principles 1.0", November 2020; O-RAN.WG6.AAL-GAnP-v01.00. Available at https://www.o-ran.org/specifications.
	ETSI TS 123 501 V16.6.0	"System architecture for the 5G System (5GS)". ETSI TS 123 501 V16.6.0 (2020-10) (3GPP TS 23.501 version 16.6.0 Release 16). Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/123500_123599/123501/16.06.00_60/ts_123501v160600p.pdf.

Security Related References

Ref	Doc Number	Title
		CSA's Information Security Management through Reflexive Security. Available at https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/information-security-management-through-reflexive-security/.
		Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). Available at https://cve.mitre.org/.
		ETSI Industry Specification Group Network Functions Virtualisation (ISG NFV). Available at https://www.etsi.org/committee/1427-nfv.
		ETSI Cyber Security Technical Committee (TC CYBER). Available at https://www.etsi.org/committee/cyber
	ETSI GS NFV-SEC 014 V3.1.1 (2018-04)	Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 3; "NFV Security; Security Specification for MANO Components and Reference points"; ETSI GS NFV-SEC 014 V3.1.1 (2018-04). Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-SEC/001_099/014/03.01.01_60/gs_NFV-SEC014v030101p.pdf.
	ETSI GS NFV-SEC 021 V2.6.1 (2019-06)	Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 2; Security; "VNF Package Security Specification"; ETSI GS NFV-SEC 021 V2.6.1 (2019-06). Available at https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-SEC/001_099/021/02.06.01_60/gs_nfv-sec021v020601p.pdf.
		Information Security Management through Reflexive Security. Available at https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/information-security-management-through-reflexive-security/.
	ISO/IEC 27000:2018	Information technology — Security techniques — Information security management systems — Overview and vocabulary. Available at https://www.iso.org/standard/73906.html.
		"Open Networking & the Security of Open Source Software deployment". Available at https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/resources/open-networking-the-security-of-open-source-software-deployment/.
		OWASP "Secure Coding Practices - Quick Reference Guide". Available at https://owasp.org/www-project-secure-coding-practices-quick-reference-guide/migrated_content.
		Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) described by US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Available at https://www.ntia.gov/SBOM.
		Twelve-Factor App. Available at https://12factor.net/.

NIST Security Related References

Ref	Doc Number	Title
	NIST SP 800-53	Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-53r4.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-53A	Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations: Building Effective Assessment Plans https://www.serdp-estcp.org/content/download/47513/453118/file/NIST%20SP%20800-53A%20Rev%204%202013.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-63B	Digital Identity Guidelines https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-63b.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-63B	Digital Identity Guidelines https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-63b.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-123	Guide to General Server Security https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-123.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-125	Guide to Security for Full Virtualization Technologies https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-125.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-125a	Security Recommendations for Server-based Hypervisor Platforms https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-125Ar1.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-125b	Secure Virtual Network Configuration for Virtual Machine (VM) Protection https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-125B.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-137	Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Federal Information Systems and Organizations https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-137.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-145	The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-145.pdf.
	NIST SP 800-190	Application Container Security Guide https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-190.pdf.