EUAG 2021-08-03 Meeting notes

Date

Aug 3, 2021

Attendees: 

LF Staff: @Kenny Paul, @Heather Kirksey
Committee Members: @Beth Cohen,  @Lei Huang, @Massimo Massimo
Proxies:
Guests: @Scot Steele, @Sridhar Rao, @Yuhan Zhang

Agenda

• Start the Recording

• Antitrust Policy

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

• General Topics\

• Anuket Assured @Beth Cohen

  • Looking to EUAG to support the badging program (See May 18, 2021 email https://lists.lfnetworking.org/g/lfn-euag-members/message/593)

  • Schedule @Lincoln Lavoie to come speak to the EUAG on the program

• Thoth AI/ML @Sridhar Rao

  • Contributions to Whitepaper: (a) Data Models for different Problem domains (b) Survey of published (industry and academia) works - problems, techniques, and gaps
    
    
    

• CNI Plugins to consider for Benchmarking @Sridhar Rao

  • Default: Flannel* , MACVLAN, IPVLAN, calico - Not considered for performance benchmarking

  • High-Performance: SRIOV, Userspace CNI (OVS, DPDK, VPP) - Currently done.

  • Vswitch Based: OVS - Not Done yet.

  • Under-Consideration: celium (eBPF), ...?
    
    
    

  • @Heather Kirksey opportunity for a whitepaper on CNIs and data planes driven by telco workloads as a whitepaper? Something like "how to chose a cni"

  • Seems to be a lot of interest in eBPF on the Enterprise side of things

  • The test frameworks are there, but lack the telco based data.

  • More discussion needed
    
    
    

• AI Whitepaper update @Yuhan Zhang

  • Should also look at work coming out o the ETSI Experiential Networked Intelligence Industry Specification Group (ENI ISG) https://www.etsi.org/technologies/experiential-networked-intelligence 

  • ETSI -ENI working area https://portal.etsi.org/tb.aspx?tbid=857&SubTB=857#/

  • @Beth Cohen pending changes need to be merged

  • Panel session accepted about whitepaper for ONE Summit

  • Also AI paper from CMCC accepted 

  • Need to evaluate potential overlap of the material 

• Elections

  • Last elections were in Aug of 2020 - time to kick off a new cycle - watch for email from @Kenny Paul
    
    
    

• Joint meeting with Anuket?

  • Topics? Is there a need?

  • Anuket Assured - may not be relevant after @Lincoln Lavoie attends this call

  • Badging probably the right focus. Will decide following above discussion

  • Tabling any joint TSC meeting for now

Action items