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+========================================
+Align octavia API With Neutron LBaaS API
+========================================
+
+
+Problem description
+===================
+For the octavia API to truly be standalone, it needs to have capability parity
+with Neutron LBaaS's API.  Neutron LBaaS has the luxury of piggy-backing off
+of Neutron's API.  This gives Neutron LBaaS's API resources many capabilities
+for free.  This document is meant to enumerate those capabilities that the
+octavia API does not possess at the time of this writing.
+
+Proposed change
+===============
+Complete the tasks enumerated in the `Work Items`_ section
+
+Alternatives
+------------
+* Do nothing and keep the status quo
+
+Data model impact
+-----------------
+There will be some minor data model changes to octavia in support of this
+change.
+
+REST API impact
+---------------
+This change will have significant impact to the octavia API.
+
+Security impact
+---------------
+This change will improve octavia security by adding keystone authentication.
+
+Notifications impact
+--------------------
+No expected change.
+
+Other end user impact
+---------------------
+Users will be able to use the new octavia API endpoint for LBaaS.
+
+Performance Impact
+------------------
+This change may slightly improve performance by reducing the number of
+software layers requests will traverse before responding to the request.
+
+Other deployer impact
+---------------------
+Over time the neutron-lbaas package will be deprecated and deployers will
+only require octavia for LBaaS.
+
+Developer impact
+----------------
+This will simplify LBaaS development by reducing the number of databases
+as well as repositories that require updating for LBaaS enhancements.
+
+Implementation
+==============
+
+Assignee(s)
+-----------
+blogan
+diltram
+johnsom
+rm_you
+dougwig
+
+Work Items
+----------
+Implement the following API Capabilities:
+
+* Keystone Authentication
+* Policy Engine
+* Pagination
+* Quotas
+* Filtering lists by query parameter
+* Fields by query parameter
+* Add the same root API endpoints as n-lbaas
+* Support "provider" option in the API to select a driver to spin up a load
+  balancer.
+* API Handler layer to become the same as n-lbaas driver layer and allow
+  multiple handlers/drivers.
+* Neutron LBaaS V2 driver to octavia API Handler shim layer
+
+Implement the following additional features that n-lbaas maintains:
+
+* OSC extension via a new repository 'python-octaviaclient'
+
+
+Other Features to be Considered:
+
+* Notifications for resource creating, updating, and deleting.
+* Flavors
+* Agent namespace driver or some lightweight functional driver.
+* Testing octavia with all of the above
+* REST API Microversioning
+
+Dependencies
+============
+None
+
+Testing
+=======
+Api tests from neutron-lbaas will be used to validate the new octavia API.
+
+Documentation Impact
+====================
+The octavia api reference will need to be updated.
+
+References
+==========