06-05-2023 TSC Meeting Minutes

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Meeting Chat File: 

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LF Staff: @LJ Illuzzi 

Agenda

• LF Antitrust Policy

• Meeting note taker

• Welcome new attendees

• Issue discussion/Dev updates

  • Lead off with RBAC https://github.com/l3af-project/l3af-arch/discussions/57

• Release Management (Dhivya)

• LFN Developer & Testing Forum June 2023 - Review calendar/L3AF Schedule

• Optimising Traffic Mirroring

• AOB

• General Topics (cover as needed)

  • Use Cases

  • Roadmap

  • Project structure

    • Governance

    • Technical Steering Committee

Minutes/Updates

• Issue discussion/Dev updates

  • L3AF R2

    • RBAC https://github.com/l3af-project/l3af-arch/discussions/57

      • Option 1: RBAC framework using x.509 PKI Certificate Attributes

        • Not every CA will issue those types of certs (w/usernames)

      • Option 2 OATH

        • No work required. Just consume already existing resources.

        • Many enterprises already using it.

          • ex: Windows Active Directory

      • Option 3. Digital Signature based Authorization with mTLS

        • Minimal overhead.

        • Partly extensible. Partly standards compliant.

        • Protocols mature, framework not so mature.

      • Option 4. SHA256 Hash based Authorization with mTLS
        
        

        • Don't want l3af to be the actual auth service.

        • Custom implementation

    • We don't want to take ownership by building our own RBAC

      • Building an e2e RBAC does not align with L3AF goals

        • Also managing the RBAC lifecycle

      • Enterprises should use their own control plane to manage L3AFd

      • Supporting only 2 roles at first is okay, but we have to be extensible

      • Most enterprises will have central control.

        • Leave it up to them.

      • Option 2. mTLS with OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication, but:

        • If nobody is going to use anything other than read/write then we do not need to build RBAC now.

          • We will document how to integrate RBAC option 2.

            • Document how L3AFd could integrate with the above

    • feat: introduce interface-based data types #229 - https://github.com/l3af-project/l3afd/pull/229

      • Standardize to open source.

      • Finish most of R2 PR then merge this.

      • Approach agreed upon.

    • Update configs from command line argument #242 https://github.com/l3af-project/l3afd/pull/242

      • Please review

    • Update native loading of root programs #245

    • Loading XDP and TC program blockers

      • https://github.com/l3af-project/l3afd/issues/191

        • Waiting for Intern

        • Build fails(?) Missing package.

        • Workaround by making conditional dependencies where Linux specific calls are only used on Linux builds.

      • https://github.com/florianl/go-tc/issues/17 - Need to update our issue.

  • L3AFD v2.1

  • L3AF on Windows

    • LFN Mentorship Program for L3AF on Windows

    • Set of milestones next week

  • DT&F

    • 5 am PST L3AF project update

    • Shankar 5G uF

• Release Management

• LFN Developer & Testing Forum June 2023 - June 6-8, 2023. Virtual event

  • Review calendar/L3AF Schedule

  • Link to L3AF topic submissions: 

  • Topics Submission Page

  • Virtual D&TF session guidelines

  • Reminder to Register

  • Best place for marketing the project- this is how we grow the community within LF/LFN

  • Question: should June 6 TSC meeting be canceled so the community can attend D&TF? (many LFN communities will cancel TSC meetings that week in lieu of D&TF).

• Optimising Traffic Mirroring (Arunkanth) Link

• Any Other Business

Action Items

Future Agenda Items

Start with 

• RBAC https://github.com/l3af-project/l3af-arch/discussions/57