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General information
When:
July 23rd - July 25th 0900 - 1800 CEST
Where:
Orange Gardens
44 avenue de la République
Châtillon (South Paris)
Remote Attendees:
Please join the meeting on the zoom bridge: https://zoom.us/j/999652583
You will be muted on join. If you join by telephone use *6 to unmute. Joining by computer audio select the unmute option.
Overview
This three day face-to-face will be a working session to bring the CNTT work announced at ONS North America to the broader technical community. It is meant to be a collaborative technical working session with the aim of progressing Release 1 of the CNTT Reference Model and Reference Architecture. Please come prepared to roll up your sleeves and dive into hands-on work.
In preparation for the meeting, please see the following GitHub repositories for the current working drafts. Please note that these are working drafts. Please also hold off on submitting Pull Requests on these documents until we've all had a chance to level-set and discuss at this F2F meeting.
Current CNTT Reference Model Working Draft: https://github.com/cntt-n/CNTT/
Rendered (i.e. formatted, more readable) version of the current CNTT Reference Model Working Draft: https://cntt-n.github.io/CNTT/
Working Draft Process Information: https://cntt-n.github.io/CNTT/logistics/#approval_process
Agendas
Agenda Day 1 -
Day 1 | ||
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(09:00) 15 min Tue | Welcome Message Orange Housekeeping Orange Conference Bridge, WiFi, Breaks and Lunch, Room Access | |
(09:15) 10 min Tue | Agenda Review Jonathan Beltran, AT&T Brief overview of agenda and how organized | |
(09:25) 35 min Tue | Opening Remarks Mark Cottrell, AT&T, David Hutton, GSMA, Heather Kirksey, Linux Foundation Opening round table remarks to outline long-term expectations, perspectives | |
Current Status And Vision | ||
(10:00) 30 min Tue | Governance Update Mark Cottrell Review and expand on global framework one pager, provide insight into longer term vision working with GSMA and LF, provide guidance on future release scope backlog. | |
(10:30) 30 min Tue | Break | |
(11:00) 30 min Tue | Community Technology Update Facilitator: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone Reference Model vs Reference Architecture vs Reference Implementation. MVP Concept. | |
(11:30) 30 min Tue | Reference Model: Overall Concepts Community Agreeing on the concepts. Feedback about the concept. | |
(12:00) 30 Min Tue | Reference Model Chapter 1 Introduction (R1) – Status Review, Q&A Facilitator: Beth Cohen, Verizon Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(12:30) 60 min Tue | Lunch | |
(13:30) 30 Min Tue | Reference Model Chapter 2 VNF Requirements and Analysis (R1) – Status Review, Q&A Facilitator: TBD Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(14:00) 30 Min Tue | Reference Model Chapter 3 Infrastructure Abstraction (R1 - Modeling) – Status Review, Q&A Facilitator: Bernard Tsai, DT Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(14:30) 45 Min Tue | Reference Model Infrastructure Abstraction Chapter 3 (R1) – Status Review, Q&A Facilitator: Mark Shostak, AT&T Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(15:15) 15 min Tue | Break | |
(15:30) 15 Min Tue | Reference Model Chapter 4 Catalog (R1) – Status Review, Q&A Facilitator: Burak Kazan, Turkcell Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(16:00) 30 Min Tue | Reference Model Chapter 5 Reference NFVI SW Profiles and Configurations (R1) – Status Review, Q&A Facilitator: Karine Sevilla, Orange Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(16:30) 30 Min Tue | Reference Model Chapter 6 Reference NFVI HW Profiles and Configurations (R1) – Status Review, Q&A Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(17:00) 30 Min Tue | Reference Model Chapter 7 APIs and Interfaces (R1 – NFVI APIs) – Status Review, Q&A Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(17:30) 30 Min Tue | Day 1 – Wrap Up Moderator: TBD Accomplishments What did we get done? What did we gain alignment/agreement on? What did we hear and do we need to adjust? What do we need to collaborate further on? Next steps |
Agenda Day 2 -
Day 2 | ||
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Technology (Reference Model) | ||
(09:00) 15 Mins Wed | Opening – Recap and Day Ahead | |
(09:15) 90 Mins Wed | Release 2 Scope Facilitator: TBD Reference Model Updates: Refine 1-7 based on ‘maturity level’ (Incl. backlog from Day 1) Finalize 8-11 Scope Meaningful targets – how to manage from R1, what is backlog from R3, R4? Detailed Release Timeline – Feedback / Doability / Issues / Concerns / Gaps | |
(10:45) 15 min Tue | Break | |
(11:00) 90 Mins Wed | Technology WG overview Facilitator: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone Document Structure, Current Contributions framework, How to get involved | |
(12:30) 60 Mins Wed | Lunch | |
(13:30) 30 Mins Wed | Chapter 1 (R1) – Development Facilitator: TBD | |
(14:00) 30 Mins Wed | Chapter 2 (R1) – Development Facilitator: TBD | |
(14:30) 60 Mins Wed | Chapter 3 (R1 - Modelling) - Development Facilitator: Bernard Tsai, DT (Description TBD) | |
(15:30) 15 min Wed | Break | |
Breakout Sessions | ||
Room A | Room B | |
(15:45) 30 Mins Wed | Chapter 3x (R1) – Development Facilitator: Mark Shostak, AT&T (Description TBD) | Chapter 4 (R1) – Development Burak Kazan, Turkcell (Description TBD) |
(16:15) 45 Mins Wed | Chapter 5 (R1) - Development Facilitator: Karine Sevilla, Orange (Description TBD) | Chapter 7 (R1) - Development Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T |
(17:00) 45 Mins Wed | Chapter 6 (R1) - Development Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T (Description TBD) | TBD |
(17:45) 30 Mins Wed | Day 2 – Wrap Up |
Agenda Day 3 -
Day 3 | ||
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(09:00) 15 Mins Wed | Opening – Recap and Day Ahead | |
Technology (Reference Architecture) | ||
(09:15) 90 Mins Wed | Reference Architecture: Initialization Facilitator:TBD Create ToC for Reference Architecture R1 How to Engage and Create Reference Architectures: What are the anchors we build around? OpenStack VMWare etc. | |
(10:45) 15 min Tue | Break | |
(11:00) 90 Mins Wed | Reference Architecture: Creation Facilitator: TBD Setting meaningful targets, backlog Detailed Release Timeline – Feedback / Doability / Issues / Concerns / Gap Including adoption of OVP VNF Certification and NFVi verification (align this with other open source bodies also) How to cooperate on and create when we leave here. | |
(12:30) 60 Mins Thu | Lunch | |
Support and Sponsorship | ||
(13:30) 60 Mins Wed | Enhancements to Test projects / OVP & CVC ecosystem Facilitators: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone and Heather Kirksey, Linux Foundation Vision: Describe current OVP/CVC vision and relation to CNTT, impact on OPNFV, ONAP, etc. Understanding the ecosystem (who, what, where, how?): Existing Test project / OVP ecosystem. CI/CD processes and procedures, security, etc. What in-flight projects are impacted? Which does CNTT feed? Which feed CNTT? Which are obsoleted? Where are there opportunities for improvement? What else does CNTT need to consider? Realization: What are the real steps in the journey? How do we reveal the reference platform profiles and architectures into OPNFV code? How do we go from model to arch to implementation to various project code updation? How could/should it work from a practical perspective? What will help us facilitate release management? OPNFV Project Plan: What shall be our approach? What are the key components? | |
(14:30) 60 Mins Wed | Reference Implementation / OVP & CVC ecosystem Facilitator: TBD OVP Infrastructure: What enables smooth transitions? Where and how do reference models, architectures, implementations get hosted? How to make seamless translations between GSMA OPNFV addressable works? Demarcations with other bodies? ‘Project Management’: What needs to be aligned to ensure all workloads come up and all work (so that VNF certification testing can begin?); Tasks? Deliverables? Processes? Release Timetables | |
(15:30) 15 min Tue | Break | |
Where Do We Go From Here | ||
(15:45) 90 Mins Wed | Adoption Strategy Facilitator: TBD Establish metric targets as part of value propositions: VNF Operational efficiency & Innovation acceleration, Cut amount of internal testing to be done by SPs, Accelerate Time To Market, Improve Quality, Reduce Costs, Reduce Barriers To Entry Examples: Reduction in testing and integration costs, Reduction in certification time, Reduction in defects, Reduction in operational costs… What is overall message: “This is a GSMA OPNFV jointly supported activity...”, Adoption of Ref Model and Architectures (as part of RFQ process), Collaborative Marketing Leveraging Media Relationships: Telecom TV. SM alliances. SDX Central articles. Talking to analysts. Meetup Groups. | |
(17:15) 45 Mins Wed | Closing Session Facilitator: TBD Accomplishments: What did we get done? What did we gain alignment/agreement on? What did we sign-off on? What still needs work? Follow ups: What do we need follow up on? Who are they assigned to? Next steps: What are our next steps? With OPNFV / OVP / CVC? With GSMA? With Task Force? With other stakeholders? Calendar and Schedule: Review and confirm remote meetings. Review and confirm face-to-face meetings Session Review: Give everyone an opportunity to speak into all the topics of the day: What went well? What didn’t go so well? What should we change? Closing Round Table Remarks |
Contacts
Agenda contacts
Mark Cottrell (mark.cottrell@att.com)
Jonathan Beltran (jonathan.beltran@att.com).
Rabi Abdel (abdel.rabi@vodafone.com)
Jim Baker (jbaker@linuxfoundation.org)
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