Adding a new top-level landing spot for SB protocol libraries & controllers.

Change-Id: I38311a7298c812b739cfc734a81ba0bb44ba38b6
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2014 Open Networking Laboratory
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+        <artifactId>onos</artifactId>
+        <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+
+    <artifactId>onos-protocols</artifactId>
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+    <description>ONOS south-bound protocols</description>
+
+    <modules>
+        <!--
+        <module>openflow</module>
+        <module>ovsdb</module>
+        <module>netconf</module>
+        <module>pcep</module>
+        <module>bgp</module>
+        -->
+    </modules>
+
+    <dependencies>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+                <artifactId>onos-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+</project>