EUAG 2021-04-14 Meeting notes

Date

Apr 14, 2021

Attendees

LF Staff: @Jim Baker, @Kenny Paul, @Heather Kirksey
Committee Members: @Lei Huang, @Randy Levensalor, @LIN MENG, @Massimo Massimo, @Ken KANISHIMA,  @Scott Blandford @Kodi  @HJ Han
Proxies:
Guests:

Agenda

• Start the Recording

• Antitrust Policy

• Agenda Bashing (Roll Call, Action Items (5 minutes)

• General Topics

  • Discussion of answering end users requirements in Anuket - @Beth Cohen , @Jim Baker

  • Research survey on cloud native maturity for telecom - @Heather Kirksey

  • AI/ML data and model sharing project status - @Jim Baker @Lei Huang

  • Synchronization of testing white paper and webinar - @Beth Cohen @Randy Levensalor @Massimo Massimo @Lei Huang 

Minutes

Research survey on cloud native maturity for telecom

• @Heather Kirksey reviewed a third party research plan on the "Cloud Native Maturity Model" Analysys Mason EUAG.pptx

• Caroline Chappell will be reaching out to many EUAG members that sign-up directly for input.

AI/ML data and model sharing project status

• Insufficient interest in the operator and vendor community for continued project focus

• CSP/vendors are welcome to add ideas to https://lf-networking.atlassian.net/wiki/x/8ifv

• Foundational data model is the key to open collaboration @HJ Han 

• @Massimo Massimo mentioned that Huawei has done some work in this area - "catalyst" effort = POC -  on network intelligence and machine learning. Focus was to demonstrate functionality that could be practically applied.  TM Forum sponsored.

• @HJ Han sometimes what is demonstrated is not what people are actually doing.

Synchronization of NFV testing white paper and webinar

• Published initial NFV white paper at the end of March

• Thanks to Beth & Randy & Lei for a great webinar

• Community contributions made the white paper a complete perspective of the NFV testing topic

• Future white papers: 5G SDN adoption

End user requirements in Anuket

• EUAG participants cover a very broad range of networking topics

• EUAG would provide another set of eyes to review the conformance testing objectives of Anuket releases

• @Randy Levensalor should include K8s - but many features are in beta/early development phases

• Hardware acceleration (eg. FGPAs) is one area that could use some attention

  • FPGAs - No common programming language 

  • Smart NICs - largely testing well

  • Interop testing of acceleration is under-tested - Anuket Reference Model - has started to pick up HW acceleration

• VSperf is broadening a bit - unsure if that is covered or still a gap

• ODIM also investigating how to uniformly report on acceleration facilities

• @Lei Huang How to better work with Anuket?

  • ONAP priorities get input from EUAG. Input to Anuket is currently loosely connected via common participants

  • Perhaps a joint meeting with Anuket TSC and EUAG at June virtual event as the next step in getting stronger collaboration between Anuket/EUAG

• @Heather Kirkseygave an overview of Anuket

  • @HJ Han discussion of inclusion of ODL in the graphic

Action items