Three of ONF's projects - LF Broadband, Aether and P4 - were transferred to the Linux Foundation and would be e subject to a new governance structure.

As part of the merger, ONF handed over $5 million in funding to staff and operate their projects.

[8] The ONF launched a continuous certification program for products and equipment in the telecom and networking space.

In 2019 the ONF announced the public release of three Reference Designs (RDs): SEBA, Trellis and ODTN.

[11] In 2019, the ONF announced that it had combined with P4.org and would be the host for all activities and working groups related to the development of the P4 programming language moving forward.

[15] In 2021, the Open Networking Foundation spun out Ananki as a for-profit sister organization to commercialize Aether as a Private 5G service for Industry 4.0 transformation.