While NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) has been embraced at lightning speed, in telco industry terms, as the core framework for carrier virtualization, many concerns have remained over other apects of the technology, and how interoperable NFV-enabled systems really would be. ETSI, the architect of NFV, has taken one important step to addressing these fears with the creation of another initiative, the Open Source MANO (OSM) Community. With 23 initial members, this group will create a multivendor open source software stack for service creation and orchestration on virtualized networks. The founding participants are operators Telefónica, BT, Telekom Austria, Telenor, Korea Telecom, SK Telecom, Sprint and Telmex; plus Canonical, Intel, Mirantis, RIFT.io, Benu Networks, Brocade, Comptel, Dell, Indra, Metaswitch, RADWare, Red Hat,…