Community

Right now, OpenFlow, this web-site and the reference implementatioins are being supported and maintained by the High Performance Networking Group at Stanford University.

The following researchers proposed OpenFlow:

• Nick McKeown, Stanford University
• Tom Anderson, University of Washington
• Hari Balakrishnan, MIT
• Guru Parulkar, Stanford University
• Larry Peterson, Princeton University
• Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University
• Scott Shenker, University of California Berkeley
• Jonathan Turner, Washington University in St. Louis

Participate

People interested in OpenFlow are encouraged to join one or more of the OpenFlow mailing lists.

The current mailing lists are:

• OpenFlow-announce — a low-volume list for OpenFlow announcements including new versions of the specification and reference design releases
• OpenFlow-discuss — a list for general discussion of OpenFlow related topics including deployment, use, applications, controller development
• OpenFlow-dev — a high-volume development mailing list for the OpenFlow reference implementation and software switch
• OpenFlow-spec — a low-volume list for discussing proposed revisions to the OpenFlow specification
• OpenFlow-meeting — a list for OpenFlow meeting announcements and notifications
• OpenFlow-jobs — a list for OpenFlow-related job announcements