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Task Force Members,

A summary and actions from today’s call are provided below. Key Update: A draft Reference Implementation for CNTT Project Proposal has been created and submitted to OPNFV TSC. You still have the opportunity to provide input. Please review & give feedback. Send comments to Fu Qiao & Mike Fix by end of day 9/8. A final discussion will then be held to cleanup and complete this major milestone – see details below. 

Attendees

Rabi Abdel (Vodafone), Heather Kirksey (LFN), Pankaj Goyal (AT&T), Vincent Danno (Orange), Peter Woerndle (Ericsson), Ian Gardner (Vodafone), Mark Shostak (AT&T), Mike Bustamente (AT&T), Mike Fix (AT&T), Fu Qiao (China Mobile), Rick Tennant (AT&T), Pierre Bichon (Juniper), Toshi Wakayama (KDDI), Jim Baker (LFN), Zhi-Qiang Yu (China Mobile), Joerg Aelken (Ericsson), Jonne Soininen (Nokia), Gergely Csatari (Nokia), Jonathan Beltran (AT&T)

Summary

• Housekeeping Items
• No Updates
• Technology Update
• Reference Model  
• 6 WIP PRs with additional PRs planned
• Issues are being prioritized for Antwerp
• Issues are being created by Chapter Leads (captured in GitHub Issues)
• Reference Architecture  
• Architectural Principles & Architecture Requirements were agreed to & will be merged by end of week
• Next Steps: Chapters 3-4 outlines – estimated to be approved & merged next week
• Contacts: Rabi Abdel / Walter Kozlowski (Co-Leads)    

• Test & Certification
• CNTT Reference Implementation Project was reviewed (content found in attached PDF)
• Community review & feedback is encouraged – must be completed by EOD 9/8
• Other contributors can be added to the submission
• Submit comments to Fu Qiao & Mike Fix
• Fu Qiao to present latest in OPNFV Tech Discussion call on 9/9
• Call will be  hosted the week of 9/9 to aggregate & align on comments | feedback | input into the CNTT RI proposal
• PTL nominations are open for the CNTT RI project proposal - Mike Fix (AT&T) has volunteered, pending collection of all nominations, review a& elections.
• Targeted OPNFV TSC Vote / Approval:  9/17/19
• Open Item: OPNFV Installers – which ones (Airship, XCI, etc.) will be used in support of Reference Architecture # 1 – discussion will occur once RA # 1 is defined.
• Open Item: What is the relationship between CNTT & external upstream / downstream community projects such as Akraino, ONAP, OpenStack, etc.? There will be a sidebar discussion in the next week on community engagements & establishing constructs.
• Contacts: Fu Qiao / Mike Fix / Kyle Greenwell  (Co-Leads)

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• Release Management
• No objections to approach, next steps, and Ch. 10 items directionally
• 3 month major release cycle
• 4 week sprints
• Include ‘maintenance support’ approach
• Sidebar working group - discussions and analysis on framework & approach will continue
• Goal is to move to a continuous delivery | Agile model which would represent change for OPNFV
• Must address support issues | time requirements to integrate OpenStack releases with Installers
• Need alignment with OPNFV on a mutually agreed upon structure & cadence
• CNTT will develop an approach to present to OPNFV, including artifacts
• CNTT community needs to define Operator requirements to feed into OPNFV on LCM, release longevity, upstream | downstream dependencies, etc.
• An integrated release flow is important
• Fido project is potential example to emulate
• Contacts: Jim Baker / Jonathan Beltran / Rick Tennant  (Co-Leads)

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• Communications Management
• Zoom IDs are available to Chapter Leads
• Meetings using community Zoom bridges will need to be added to the community calendar (currently under development)
• Contact Jim Baker to request Zoom administrative access
• Active artifact repositories: Common NFVI  Governance , Technology, & Implementation
• Contacts: Jim Baker / Jonathan Beltran / Rick Tennant  (Co-Leads)

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• Antwerp Face to Face (9/26-9/27)
• Registration is open for the CNTT 3^rd F2F Working Group Session in Antwerp Belgium – REGISTER HERE
• Antwerp Agenda Reviewed (content found in attached PDF)
• Suggestion (Jim Baker) – Realign breakout sessions to allow essential contributors to attend both session tracks
• RA # 2 | Reference Implementation will be grouped
• RA # 3 | Test & Certification will be grouped
• Suggestion (Jim Baker) – Make breakout sessions back to back to limit in-flight room configuration changes
• Sidebar discussion scheduled for Friday morning to breakdown session areas into to detail (topics, time allotments, speakers)
• Detailed agenda will be reviewed on next week’s governance call
• Antwerp Logistics
• Legal | Contractual requirements have been met
• LFN (Heather) getting the word out for CNTT F2F Workshop in same channels as for ONS promotion
• social media, newsletters, Linux events, etc.
• GitHub has been updated with license & code of conduct information
• CNTT F2F Working Group Session will be co-located with the ONAP & Open Daylight community meetings
• Request from those communities to have a joint discussion in their session(s) on 9/26 PM
• Open Item: Topic, Timeframe, Who would cover from CNTT (Jonathan to discuss with Mark)
• Community Social – Nothing planned or sponsored at this time. Informal gatherings may occur.
• Contacts: Mark Cottrell / Rabi, Abdel / Beth Cohen (Co-Leads)

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• All – Review & provide input, comments, feedback on CNTT Reference Implementation Proposal
• Fu Qiao / Mike – Set up call the week of 9/9 to review & align on CNTT FI Proposal
• Jonathan – Get with Mark on ONAP / Open Daylight request for CNTT time in their sessions
• Jonathan – Follow up w/Michele Zarri re: GSMA artifact lifecycle
• Rick – Modify agenda to Jim Baker’s suggestions
• Jim – Create / post community meeting calendar

What’s next?

• Fall 2019 CNTT F2F Working Group Session - Detailed Agenda
• Finalize CNTT Reference Implementation Proposal | Review with OPNFV TSC
• Identify and assess key open source communities for engagement with CNTT
• Increase Operator | Vendor engagement in all things CNTT

Thanks,

Jonathan

PS….

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