EUAG 2019-10-22 Meeting notes

Date

Oct 22, 2019 

Attendees

• LFN Staff @Jim Baker 

• Members:  @Atul Purohit @Cecilia Corbi @Beth Cohen  @Herbert Damker @Lei Huang @Marc Fiedler @Marc-Alexandre Choquette  @Olivier Augizeau @Rabi Abdel @Saad Ullah Sheikh @serge.manning @Vincent Colas @Guy Meador

• Guests:  @Scott Blandford @ChrisC @Mark Shostak @mike fix

Discussion items

Agenda

1. CNTT EUAG plan - how to best support the CNTT program

2. ONAP consumption models white paper development planning

3. January LFN DDF/CNTT/OPNFV plugfest/OVP VNF Hacking meeting announcement

   1. Prague January 13-16 https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/lf-networking-ddf-plugfest-2020/register/

CNTT EUAG plan

• @Atul Purohit reviewed a set of CNTT adoption challenges

• Proposing a CNTT/EUAG adoption plan amongst the service providers

• @Rabi Abdel Need to make sure the VNF vendors are aligned to the service provider adoption plans 

• @Beth Cohen CNTT is not really a consumable - it's more a forcing alignment within the vendor community

• Operators need to agree that CNTT certified is a part of the acquisition/RFP process

  • Both operators and vendors will benefit from reduced permutation matrix of NFVI support

  • Need to discuss - what are the impacts of CNTT/challenges @Rabi Abdel

  • Propose next week bring in a basic framework

  • Need to define a maturity matrix for the VNFs - (fully virtualized, cloud-native, etc.)

  • Create a road map of what and when @Saad Ullah Sheikh

  • How will this change the procurement process? 

• Next steps

  • develop strategy/plan and timeline for white paper

  • Create a simple mapping between CNTT/EUAG 

    • Once we identify the CNTT/EUAG intersection

    • Send out a overview of the value props of CNTT AND discover why carriers may not be involved

  • Include this value proposition in the white paper

• CNTT provides technology leadership

  • Defines gaps in upstream projects and push requirements up

  • LFN to help funnel requirements into both LFN projects AND other FOSS projects

ONAP consumption models white paper

• LFN TAC also writing a white paper - focus on ONAP positioning and roadmap

• EUAG focus on the consumption model - 4 key sections

  • Purpose of WP @Cecilia Corbi @Saad Ullah Sheikh @Beth Cohen

  • Similar initiatives (OpenStack, Kubernetes) @Beth Cohen 

  • Consumption model @Beth Cohen  @FREEMAN, BRIAN D  @Marc-Alexandre Choquette @Lei Huang @Atul Purohit

  • How to improve iteratively? (defer until later)

• @Jim Baker to help coordinate the EUAG and TAC white papers

• AI Create a wiki page per section @Jim Baker