MMA Agenda and Minutes 07Apr2020

Owned by Bob Monkman (Deactivated)
Last updated: Apr 13, 2020
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Attendees

@Beth Cohen(Verizon)

@Rabi Abdel (Vodafone)

@Scot Steele (AT&T)

@Bob Monkman (Deactivated) (Intel)



Agenda

Agenda Bashing (5 minutes)



Marketing Outreach Exec Interview Status (2 Minutes)

  • Team working on seeking interviews with execs at participants

    • Review of the 4 interviews  held was completed over 2 meetings last week. Team is working on independent assessment of conclusions for comparison in a sync up meeting. 

Marketing Event/Collateral Discussion (15 Minutes) 

  • White paper- Held 1 meeting on Friday Apr 3rd. 

    • Sent email asking for help on providing pointers for White Paper Outline; Proposal to cover the current overview and status of RM, RA1 and RA2, RC goals

    • Scheduled Zoom meeting for further discussion for Thursday April 9- difficult to coordinate schedules

    • Discuss Operator Messaging Points

  • Need to compile updates for the late April LFN press/blog update package. Need help on identifying leads to request updates from.

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

Metrics



General

Action Items capture is now included below. 



Meeting Notes

Discussed some of the key Operator motivations- biz case v operational stress/chaos (emotional)

Operational efficiency is super critical....getting all VNF vendors on one common NFVI vastly simplifies

Expectations/claims from VNF vendors often mismatched with reality and onboarding is very difficult as a result

Want to have the flexibility to choose vendors and not be forced by security of choosing 1 vendor to reduce uncertainty

Operators are engineering outfits at the end of the day. Many decisions are deliberate, considered (methodical) but... many are trying to be much more flexible, agile, move faster

Create better structure for assurance, expectations so that the whole process can move faster

Rabi will send name of  others who can provide input to the White paper sections. Bob to resend. 

Working Session- WP working review session     (2 hours )

   – Review accomplishments

   - Brainstrorm digital mktg ideas (interim Bob send a message to folks on idea for webinar series topics) 

 - Building out 2H mktg plan

-Metrics discussion and planning , reviews of progress etc

  • review of business, ROI metrics

  • Add Badging Requirements Discussion ( logical ask from MNOs in terms of the Badging requirements, expectations, RFIs, how binding, is it enforcable

Nick to set up meeting to finalize exec interview conclusions

Field Trials discussion

  • Need to set a date for Field Trial 

  • Scot/Nick have developed a straw man plan for field trials- work item needs from leaders, participants

CNTT- Acronym name shift. the NFVI portion of the naming convention implies VM RA only. What is ETSI doing in this area? Alignment with ETSI should be considered. 

  • There is an action item for next few MMA meeeting with a goal to settle this at vFTF session. 

  • "Cloud native Telco Taskforce" - does not need to imply certain technology, does not exclude VMs or imply COntainers. 

  • Decision was taken to recommend this new meaning of the CNTT acronym officially. 





Rabi has also provided latest list of WS leads

Bob to ping them likewise for input on release milestones and progress to date, news etc for LFN MAC release package

Brandon confirms the the PR is going out April 30 needs materials by 23rd. 















 

Open Action Items: 

  • @Bob Monkman (Deactivated) will schedule meetings to flesh out White Paper Outline and source material;  

  • @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.