EUAG 2021-06-22 Meeting notes

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Last updated: Jun 24, 2021
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Date

Jun 22, 2021

Attendees

LF Staff: @Jim Baker @Brandon Wick
Committee Members: @Randy Levensalor @Lei Huang @Scott Blandford @Beth Cohen  
Proxies:
Guests: @Yuhan Zhang

Agenda

  • Start the Recording

  • Antitrust Policy

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

  • General Topics

    • AI/ML white paper update- @Beth Cohen @Yuhan Zhang @Lei Huang

    • AI data & model sharing project (follow-up) - @Lei Huang @Jim Baker

Minutes

Anuket update moved to Jul 6, 2021 

AI/ML White Paper Update @Yuhan Zhang

  • Target date to publish the white paper - ONE Summit - Oct 2021

  • More contributors sought

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  • Next steps:

    • @Yuhan Zhang to integrate and upload Intelligent Networking White Paper_v1 - yh.docx

    • Develop review and input from other EUAG members of survey findings and conclusions

    • More arguments on the importances of AI/ML in networks

    • Need a way to do shared data sets across operators for training models

AI data and model sharing

  • Development of the data sharing process

    • Agree on the specific use case

    • Each operator would need to agree on a data definition and clean their data for a shared dataset

  • Anuket AI/ML has a community interest - ONE TIME meeting  meeting Jun 28, 2021  at 1300 UTC

  • Invite @Sridhar Rao  to EUAG for Jul 6, 2021 



Anuket Intro @Beth Cohen

  • Need EUAG support in a few areas:

    • Major operators contributors: AT&T, Telstra, Vodafone, Verizon, China Mobile

    • Merger of CNTT (2 years old) and OPNFV (5 years old)

      • OPNFV focus is a create a testing and badging system for both infra and network functions

      • CNTT was created to get operators to agree on infrastructure definitions

        • Partners with GSMA to publish specs

        • Single reference model with multiple reference architectures (containers and virtualized environments)

        • Reference implementations are developed and verified by a reference conformance set of tests

    • New badging being developed: Anuket Assured

      • This is where the EUAG help is needed

      • Lead off with getting operator alignment THEN engage the vendors by requesting badging of their product offerings

    • This is an attempt to commoditize infrastructure

      • Infrastructures is NOT a differentiating factor for network operators

  • Questions/Answers

    • What are the first items for EUAG to address?

      • Support the Anuket Assured badging program.

    • Are there specific requirements for badging? 

      • Cycle of improvement

        • Review the RA definitions - RA1 @Pankaj.Goyal and RA2 @Riccardo Gasparetto

        • Offline discussions and plan for a joint meeting with Anuket

    • Couple the topics on testing?



Action items