EUAG 2021-08-03 Meeting notes

Date

03 Aug 2021

Attendees: 

LF Staff: Kenny Paul, Heather Kirksey
Committee Members: Beth Cohen,  Lei Huang, Massimo Banzi
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 18 May 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

• Kenny Paul invite Lincoln Lavoie to the upcoming meeting on 17 Aug 2021 
• Lei Huang and Beth Cohen evaluate potential overlap of the AI material for ONE Summit 10 Aug 2021