EUAG 2021-04-27 Meeting notes

Date

Apr 27, 2021

Attendees

LF Staff: @Jim Baker, @Kenny Paul
Committee Members: @Beth Cohen @Lei Huang, @Ken KANISHIMA, @Fernando Oliveira, @Scott Blandford , @Randy Levensalor , @Massimo Massimo
Proxies:
Guests:

Agenda

• Start the Recording

• Antitrust Policy

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

• General Topics

  • Research survey on cloud native maturity for telecom ( follow-up) - @Heather Kirksey @Jim Baker

  • AI/ML White Paper - @Beth Cohen @HJ Han

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

Minutes

Cloud native maturity survey 

• Survey process 

• Open Questions @Jim Baker to respond with email

  • What is the returned data? What is the benefit to the operators for sharing this info?

  • Would like to review survey prior to participation (at least a summary/outline)

  • Timeline of when the survey would be open and when results will be available?

  • Containers not exclusively cloud native. Some cloud native apps are not in containers.

    • Get this added to the survey - there is a continuum of solutions that could be "cloud native"

    • Containers, micro-services, etc.

    • "orchestrated containers" are cloud native by some definitions

AI/ML Survey - into a white paper @Beth Cohen

• Automation is the major driver for AI/ML - which drives cost out of the operations

• Maturity is very low as the journey is just beginning

• Projected timeline - NOW

• Creating cross-company and cross-silo solutions is an organizational challenge

• Goal: make transport transparent

• Key take away: Keep it simple, capture the low hanging fruit, data lakes are difficult in each of assemble/integrate/secure/privacy

  • Eg. Facial recognition thought to be a panacea - training data was biased as are the results

• @Scott BlandfordPerhaps a section on cross-vendor collaboration on data-sharing - how do we share data, anonymous, etc.

  • Not just the reason on what the roles of AI/ML are in telco but also why we need to work together

• Volunteers needed

  • @Lei Huang to create workspace in wiki

AI/ML sharing project

• @Massimo Massimoapproached TelecomItalia staff on the POC 

  • TM Forum result possible could be shared - need a liaison/MOU between TMForum and LFN for this purpose

  • @Kenny Paul LFN has a MOU in place with TM Forum - need to investigate

• @Beth Cohen reviewed some additional use cases added to the registry: https://lf-networking.atlassian.net/wiki/x/8ifv

  • Follow up - share at LFN TAC

Action items