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The dream of an open RAN ecosystem is to broaden the vendor landscape so that service providers can mix and match best-of-breed suppliers with ease. That requires rigorous standardization and the only accepted authority to do that is the O-RAN Alliance. Some would suggest standardization is not required; however, such approaches inevitably imply complex pairwise contracts and interoperability efforts resulting in a different form of lock-in and counter to the fundamental stated objectives.
Standardization and Closed RAN 2.0
This leads us to a long-overdue clarification of terminology. Since open RAN is highly ambiguous, a more precise and appropriate term is O-RAN compliant system. Similarly, the term legacy is inappropriate. Every major provider in the world today is deploying bespoke solutions and thus, by definition, they are not legacy, rather they are integrated vs open.