2023-08-30 TAC Minutes

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LF Staff: @Casey Cain @Ranny Haiby @Kenny Paul @Sandra Jackson (Deactivated) 

Community: @Nishi Mathur 

Agenda

• Start the Recording

• We will start by mentioning the project's Antitrust Policy, which you can find linked from the LF and project websites. The policy is important where multiple companies, including potential industry competitors, are participating in meetings. Please review and if you have any questions, please contact your company legal counsel. Members of the LF may contact Andrew Updegrove at the firm Gesmer Updegrove LLP, which provides legal counsel to the LF.

  • Antitrust Policy

• Roll Call

• Action Items Review

• Agenda Bashing

• General Topics

  • Developer & Testing Form

    • F2F D&TF Budapest, Hungary Nov 13, 2023 - Nov 17, 2023  

    • Topics

  • ONE Summit Regional Days

    • ONE Summit Regional Day: Spain Sep 18, 2023

    • ONE Summit Regional Day: China Sep 26, 2023 

  • Update from @Ranny Haiby regarding the Governing Board discussion about AI.

  •  Alignment with other projects
    
    

    • GSMA

    • CAMERA

    • Nephio

• Any Other Topics

Minutes

Follow-up with Security

• @Amy Zwarico refreshed the Security Best Practices wiki.
  
  

  • @Amy Zwarico asks what should be next steps?

  • After discussion @Amy Zwarico will look to update the Security tools 

Events

• @Casey Cain to kick of the D&TF Program Committee call for the week for Sep 4, 2023 
  
  

  • @Ranny Haiby mentioned we should be reaching out to the Nephio community 

  • @Casey Cain will reach out to connected projects to invite them to the D&TF.

Update on AI

• @Ranny Haiby provided an update on the current discussions taking place on AI in the Governing Board and SPC

  • Network Optimization and Network Operations seem to be the current priority 

  • Ranny noted that in the survey, there is a clear need to make public data available and tagged appropriately 

  • Other issues that need to be addressed such as secure data exchange and standards on data collection and transfer

• @Ranny Haiby noted that the SPC and Board are looking to form a SIG to address concerns

  • @Ranny Haiby encouraged AI experts to join the SIG.

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan asked if the effort was centered on LFN or if this was an LF wide effort

  • @Ranny Haiby said that our efforts will be focused on our domain.

    • AI + Data focuses on horizontal, cross domain

    • LF Edge and AI include Edge and IOT specific use cases and solutions specific to Edge Verticals like manufacturing, automotive, etc

Alignment with other Projects

• @Olaf Renner we have reached out to the Nephio TSC regarding joining the LFN

  • There seems to be a positive response so far

  • The project will be considering the motion at the next TSC meeting Aug 31, 2023 

  • The project is likely to request to join as a Graduated project. 

  • #AGREED The TAC will permit the Nephio induction packet to be submitted with less than the full 2 week review period based upon the timing of Nephio's TSC (tomorrow) and the Sep 13, 2023 TAC meeting.

• @Olaf Renner suggested that we invite the CAMARA project to the TAC in order to discuss how the LFN can best collaborate with them.

  • some initial slides provided by @cl664y@att.com :

  • Open

    
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Action items