2023-01-18 TAC Minutes

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LF Staff: Casey Cain LJ Illuzzi Ranny Haiby Sandra Jackson 

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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
  • 2022 TAC 5G-SBP Seat Election - Congratulations Muddasar Ahmed 
  • 2023 Mentorships 
  • Developer & Testing Forum February
  • 2023 Project Health Review scheduling
  • December GB follow-up discussions
    • Broadening the scope of the technology outlook - Ranny Haiby 
      • We may want to broaden the technology scope - Should projects inducted to the LF become a part of LFN?
      • Industry wide discussions we should pay attention to:
        • Serverless (AWS Lambda) for network functions
        • Identity and Ledger - could attract additional projects to LFN
      • Expand into natural adjacencies 
    • Proposal to add a standing agenda item for "new technology" topics, that will be discussed and then lead to creation of write-up/recommendations
      • Maintain a list of tech topics, see who is interested in participating. Ranny Haiby will create the initial list on the wiki.
    • Blueprint scope and goals - Ranny Haiby , Muddasar Ahmed 
    • Induction process Frank Brockners 
      • Is the bar too high for joining LFN?
      • In reality we only ask for a documented governance and release process
      • Is it just a perception problem?
      • Nephio case in point - Perception was that joining the LF will require high degree of integration with existing LF projects. Concern about technical overlap with existing LFN projects.
      • Action items 
        • We should review the sandbox induction checklist and make sure we are keeping the bar low enough.
        • Add a MAC rep and discuss how to address common misconceptions
  • Checkpoint on 2023 TAC Goals - Jason Hunt
• Any Other Topics

Minutes

Health Reviews

• Looking to schedule for projects that did not participate at the end of last year
• Will also do for Security (Amy Zwarico in early March) and 5G Super Blueprint

D&TF

• Please submit presentation proposals no later than 27 Jan 2023 
  • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/1gDxB
• Conflicts with the O-RAN Alliance face-to-face; want to avoid such conflicts in the future.

December GB Follow-up

• Ranny Haiby provided an update on the GB topics.
• Frank Brockners We may want to broaden the technology scope - Should projects inducted to the LF become a part of LFN?
  • Industry wide discussions we should pay attention to:
    • Serverless (AWS Lambda) for network functions
    • Identity and Ledger - could attract additional projects to LFN
  • Expand into natural adjacencies - What projects do we want to invite?
    • Suggest we have a regular discussion about "new technologies" at the TAC meeting
    • Maintain a list of topics that we will discuss
  • Induction Process
    
    • Is the project formation process clear enough?
    • We should review the induction process further.
    • There is also a concern about technical overlap in other LFN projects
    • We should also add our MAC rep to discuss how to reduce misconceptions

5G-SBP

• Ranny Haiby There seems to be some confusion about what SBP is and isn't.
  • Provide collaboration platform for building important technology solutions related to 5G networks

Action items

• Review LFN Induction process at next TAC meeting 01 Feb 2023 Casey Cain