2021-12-07 TSC Minutes

Owned by Qihui Zhao
Last updated: Jan 19, 2022
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Attendees & Representation

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TSC Members

@Qihui Zhao 

x

@Xiaohua Zhang 







@Azhar Sayeed 

x

Anders Fagerlind



@Ahmed ElSawaf 



@Seshu Kumar Mudiganti 

x

@Vance Shipley 

x

@Gergely Csatari 



Zeyuan Huang



@Huifeng Le (Deactivated) 

x

@Wenqiang Yang 



@ChangJin Wang 







LF Staff: @Casey Cain

Community: @Aviv Guetta @Rama Subba Reddy S @Mike Recchia 

Agenda

  • Update about mavenir participation — @Qihui Zhao

  • Following Plans for our research and release direction

    • Postpone release 1 

    • Find a release manager and build standard release process

    • Directions:

      • #1 Management related telco PaaS functionalities: CMaaS(verified but need to update the code) + TMaaS (verified) + Metrics (integration) + Fault analysis (optional) 

      • #2 OKD + CRD + Telemetry 

  • Use Case Discussion — @Mike Recchia — postponed due to health issue

  • Topics for January DTF

    • Try to add two new topics @Qihui Zhao @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti  ---using slack!!!

Minutes

  • Mavenir's participation may change due to budget and collaboration plans with public cloud

  • Postpone release 1 to 2022 – Passed

    • Feature expension: Existing FMaaS/CMaaS/TMaaS only contains partial functionalities for NF management, which lacks alarm, log, performance, heartbeat (optional), signaling (optional). 

    • Code API not clear: Interfaces for CIM module to interact with NF are not clearly defined. CMaaS northbound API changed from MANO specific interface using netconf protocol to Restful API.

    • Instruction: developer guide, required general paas integration instruction need to be completed & updated.

  • Release manager:

    • From Casey:

      • The project is not budgeted for that. We are working on something to help with a release guidance. However, the community should aim to lead the way in the long term.

      • Focus on milestones

    • CMCC has talked to Arpit to check if we can get support from the community.

  • Future directions & Features:

    • @Qihui Zhao will prepare a presentation about CMCC plan to cover progress about Direction #1.

      • Direction #1 will stick to and continue on the work of year 2021.

    • @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti will analysis actions need to be coverd on Direction #2 together with Azhar.

      • Define CRD for existing telco paas functionalities and support to be managed by operators, which could be extention for Direction #1. Extra work on data model will be included. in this direction

    • Then a vote will be made

  • @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti @Qihui Zhaoprepare topics for DTF and send to Casey through Slack

  • Invite Brandon to join tsc meeting to give intructions about how to better marketing XGVela

Action Items