Attendees:

• @Rabi Abdel

• @Beth Cohen (Verizon)

• @Scott Steinbrueck (AT&T)

• @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) (Intel)

• @Pierre Lynch [Keysight] (Keysight)

• @Toshi Wakayama (KDDI)

Meeting Minutes

• Walk-in Items.

  • ETSI-NFV Plugtest

    • F2F events (suppliers come for interoperability events).

    • test APIs that talks between components from different vendors.

    • Happens in June (two weeks after Soul, Korea).

    • Proposal to bring in CNTT RI to plug test and work with different MANOs and VNFs to interoperate.

    • we cal create a special track in there to run RC (OVP) on those NFVI.

      • All software is expected to be remote (actual NFVI instantiation is remote). 

    • two parts

      • RI: someone from CNTT to go and run RC against it.

      • VI: during the event, get RC to run against those VI.

    • Need to plan ahead and account for it.

    • how we are going to signup? (as individual company not CNTT)

      • Need to sign the NDA.

    • ETSI-NFV will not publish individual results per each participant.  (public results will not be published)

    • RedHat will participate in this.

      • will Redhat be willing to run RC against their NFVI?

      • Beta-testing.

    • We should socialise the idea and get critical mass.

    • @Pierre Lynch [Keysight] will share details and drive socialising activity within ETSI-NFV.

    • CNTT to identify an organisation (or an individual) to sign NDA and be part of the event itself.

    • (Mike Fix, Fu Qiao) → Governance Call to discuss it.

• New Time schedule and plans.

  • Tuesday 3PM CET/6:00 AM Pacific.

  • Please contact @Bob Monkman (Deactivated)if you wan to be added to the meeting invite.

• Trials:

  • Update from RH.

  • Response within next week.

• Email Draft to be sent to companies. see below

  • AP: (Please send an email to your contacts at these companies - example templates are provided below).

  • China Unicom:

    • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) to send email

  • ASUS:

    • @Brian Bearden send email.

  • NTTdocomo:

    • @Rabi Abdel to send email.

  • SKTelecom

    • @Brian Bearden to send email.

  • Samsung:
    
    

    • @Rabi Abdel to send email.

  • Rakuten:

    • Already Sent by @speedwyre

• AOB

Email Proposal by @speedwyre

Hi [Name}, 
 
[Opening personal message]
 
The reason I’m reaching out is because I’m working on a global on a network virtualization standards open-source initiative sponsored by The Linux Foundation and GSMA. It’s basically an industry coalition called the Common NFVI Telco Task Force (CNTT). This press release out of Antwerp, Belgium, gives some good highlights: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2019/09/operator-led-effort-hosted-by-linux-foundation-and-gsma-publishes-initial-specifications-for-common-nfv-infrastructure-empowered-by-lfns-ovp-framework/.
 
Furthermore, CNTT is interested in inviting [Company] to help us build and implement these global common NFVI standards, and I’m part of a team reaching out to operators and vendors to ask them to consider joining us. We’ve already got a number of large SDN | NFVI vendor players such as Ericsson, Nokia, RedHat, Mirantis, VMWare, and Canonical, as well as a number of global operators, including AT&T, Vodafone, Verizon, Orange, Telstra, and China Mobile--30+ participating companies in all and growing.
 
My question to you: do you know who I might begin a conversation with and about CNTT?
 
[Closing personal message]
 
All the best,

--Name & Signature

Alternate Email proposal by @Beth Cohen

Hi [Name}, 

As I am sure you know, I have been working on the CNTT Open Source project to build a set of reference NFV Infrastructure architectures for coming up on a year now.  The group would like to get a sense of what operators and vendors would like to get out of it.   We would like to reach out to the right people  in  Company who would have interest in the project and be able to use the work in support of their business goals. 

Previous Meeting Minutes:

• Recruitment:

  • BT:

    • Communication started few months ago, need to chase.

    • Andy

  • Telefonica:

    • CNTT is not specific to ONAP.

    • We can use ETSI NFV plenary to emphasis the point.

  • Reliance

  • Optus

  • Hutchinson (3)

  • KT

  • Arista:

  • China Unicom:

    • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) to provide content.

  • ASUS:

    • @Brian Bearden to provide contact.

  • NTTdocomo:

    • @Rabi Abdel to provide content.

  • SKTelecom

    • @Brian Bearden to provide contact for SKT.

  • Samsung:

    • if somebody has contact, please provide to list in here.

    • @Rabi Abdel to ask Jisu for contact and use same email by @speedwyre

  • Rakuten:

    • Contact: to be provided by @speedwyre

    • AP: @speedwyreto draft and email to be sent to them. (on boarding slide to be used as well)

• Trial (win)

  • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) to get in touch with RedHat and arrange a meeting with one operator (@Brian Bearden and @Beth Cohen ) first to understand the plan.

  • @Rabi Abdel to get in touch with VMware and arrange a meeting with (@Beth Cohen ) first to arrange the plan.

  • to one done before this meeting next week.

  • Key Strategic Messages / (What is the Article Headline?) @speedwyre

    • New Trial Deployments / (Projects Are In-Flight)

    • The Ecosystem is Growing

  • Key Detailed Messaging @Rabi Abdel

    • * Key Items to consider as ‘wins’ to announce that need supporting details

    • Which RI & RC boxes did we get to turn green*

      • What is tangible to be run?

    •  

      • Get Vendors

        • Use their own installer

        • Build their own ecosystem

      • Vendor implementation of NFVI*

      • Run Sanity Check on OS installation

      • Get VNF from Vendor community (Only on board and ‘run’, just a sanity check)*

  • Basic Premise / Approach

    • Cannot under-emphasize

      • CNTT has a real RM and RA

      • CNTT has real RI deployments

        • Real agreements

        • Real labs setup

    • Underlying message. Vendors have it installed in their labs. Things are moving. Get on board (or you will miss the boat).

    • Be careful not to highlight anything that isn't actually changed

• OPNFV

  • @Rabi Abdel and @Scott Steinbrueck to finalise the slides and the request to OPNFV for OPNFV TSC 2.0 discussion.

  • Need tactical plan. Clarify relationship with OPNFV.

• Adoption