MMA Agenda and Meeting 24Mar2020

Owned by Bob Monkman (Deactivated)
Last updated: Mar 24, 2020
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Attendees

  • @Beth Cohen

  • @Scot Steele

  • @Nick Chase

  • @Rabi Abdel

  • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated)

  • @speedwyre

  • @Brandon Wick

  • @Toshi Wakayama (KDDI)

  • @Andrew McLachlan (Deactivated)

Agenda



Agenda Bashing (5 minutes)

Marketing Outreach Exec Interview Status (10 Minutes)

  • Team working on seeking interviews with execs at participants.

    • VMWare:  Reached to Jambi Ganber to invite him to this meeting and socialize Trials subject as well. 

    • Red Hat, Nokia, Ericsson and Telstra still pending 

    • Review of 3 interview s already done being scheduled later this week.

Marketing Event/Collateral Discussion (15 Minutes) 

  • White paper- Nick, Bob will have a kickoff meeting with Intel contract writer resource on Wednesday 25Mar 1pm PDT

  • ETSI PlugFest update- A note was sent out for participants to update their FUT and so their planning is still underway (Will this happen as a 100% remote Plugfest like OSM recently was held?)

    • Interesting set of VNF vendors and other Stakeholders have apparently been following the planning meetings. Anyone registered for meetings can get the emails and access to the planning site. 

  • Need to start planning Baldy Press Release- Open Discussion to kick this off. 

  • Need to plan agenda for April Virtual MMA Working Session- Open Discussion.

Metrics

  • Pre-Launch Trials: sub-group needed to work on quantitative and qualitative assessment

  • We need to make progress on identifying Pre-launch Trials participants for NFVI and VNFs

  • Need some Questions to ask for feasibility or CNTT methods (e.g. cookbook) so the product of badging being offered is sufficiently supported by the industry “a lifecycle feedback loop” between CNTT and OPNFV to adopt RA1, RA2. A sub-group call will create questions @speedwyre working on this.

  • For Dev Analytics, we need to map IDs to Analytics site. @Scot Steele reaching out to @Jim Baker on this. 

  • LFN Dev Analytics site - starting basic mapping work (Multiple user IDs to LFN ID)

Recruiting

  • Thales is exploring participating and has been sent the new Welcome Letter.

General

Action Items capture is now included below. 



Meeting Notes

We had a shorter meeting today. Mostly gave an informational walk thru on the Agenda items updates recorded above. 

@Andrew McLachlan (Deactivated) from Red Hat did indicate he would go back again and check on an executive interview candidate to see if they could provide a perspective. 

@Andrew McLachlan (Deactivated) also pointed their recent blog post announcing a partnership between Red Hat and Intel, leveraging initial methodology and tools developed within OPNFV, and discussed for adoption in Common NFVi Telco Taskforce (CNTT), to create a cloud-based onboarding service in a lab testbed supporting both VNF and CNF environments.

The details are here: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/cnf-and-vnf-certification-red-hat-and-intel?source=searchresultlisting

We discussed the original notion of a Press Release for Baldy. Given that Baldy release may be pushed back to allow more time to complete some deliverables, and the lack of a ONES event, we may forego a press release for now. 

Brandon Wick of LFN did not however that LF is doing some press release around the timing of the original event anyways and we could potentially piggy back on this. Other ideas shared where Blogs discussing progress on RI and RC work. 

We discussed the need to nail down an outline for the late April Virtual FTF MMA session which is a 2 hour Zoom session. Need to sketch out an Agenda for what we would like to accomplish for that session. Let' splease all bring ideas to the coming MMA meetings to brainstorm and solidify topics. 

It was noted that we need to plan for copious note taker and moderator role assignments and someone to monitor Action Items. 

Bob mentioned that he had created an Artifacts page on the MMA main wiki but needed help to post the Template Welcome Letter. had some strange behavior and @Beth Cohen offered to post it there.

@speedwyre bid farewell to the group as he moves on to a new role and will no longer have CNTT responsibility. We was roundly lauded for his contributions and will be missed. Thanks, Jonathan!!



 

Open Action Items: 

  • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) Meeting invite will be reconstituted to peg to UTC. Bob will also check to ensure that the wiki specifies UTC for these meetings.

  • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) to set up assessment of Exec Interview results. Let's triage the responses we have already and get the key takeaways.    @speedwyre @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) and @Nick Chase  @Scot Steele

  • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) will meet with @Nick Chase re: the whitepaper; Scheduled

  • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) will review the ETSI Plugest  Planning committee minutes. Update provided above that planning continues with many participants pending test  plans. 

  • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) will review chapter 9 (Trials Outline) and send a note to potential participants to enable them to look at meat and details regarding the guidance CNTT is giving.

  • @Beth Cohen will archive BT welcome letter as an archive on the MMA wiki "artifacts" page (to be created). Existing material such as decks can still be added.