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Proposed Agenda:

• Start Recorder- helps facilitate minutes and Action Items
• Antitrust
• Welcome 1st Time Attendees
• Reminders

• Community Vision (Arpit)

• Magma Road Map (Phil)

• LFN Developer & Testing Forum Recap
• ONE Summit Update
• 5G Cloud Native Network Demo/POC/Lab Update
• Lab Resources
• Diagrams Overview
• Projects IntegrationODIM Proposal (Daniel)
• Rules of the Road (Louis)
• 5G SBP Workstreams
• AOBNext Steps (AOB)

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Meeting Recording Access the Meeting Recording Available Here.

LF Anti-trust

• 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

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Welcome all. new attendees. If you have any questions about participating in this effort, please send to Brandon Wick (bwick@linuxfoundation.org) and Louis Illuzzi (lilluzzi@contractor.linuxfoundation.org).

Reminders

LFN Developer & Testing Forum

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Recap

• Great LFN Community Virtual Meeting last week. 525 Registrations.
• Multiple Sessions with 5G SBP Tie-ins. ODIM, ONAP/Magma Integration (technical details) with input from technical working group. 
  • Request to add specific session headers. 
    • ODIM: What's New & 5G Super Blueprint Considerations
• Sessions posted by speakers post-event here: 2021 LFN Developer Event Topics June.

ONE Summit Update

• Open Network & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day, Oct 11-12, 2021, Los Angeles + Virtual.
• 5G Cloud Native Network Demo/POC to be featured in Keynote and on the show floor. LFN Networking Booth Pavilion format TBD.
• CFP closes June 20th! Please consider submitting a talk: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-edge-summit-north-america/.

5G Cloud Native Network Demo/POC Update

• Smaller team has spun off in to bi-weekly calls during opposite weeks on Tuesdays at 12:00 PM PT. May alternate with later time to get India attendees. Next call is June 22. Email bwick@linuxfoundation.org and lilluzzi@contractor.linuxfoundation.org for a meeting invite. Meeting notes here: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/EodXAw.

Lab Resources

Current labs supporting the 5G Cloud Native Network are Kaloom & UNH-IOL. Going forward, more labs are needed/welcome as hosting options. Call with CENGN last week with an early exploration for this. Servers will be needed that may or may not come from Lab hosts. 5G SBP participants are asked to consider donating servers as needed to initiative.

Diagrams Overview 

• 5G Cloud Native Network Demo/POC Diagram (detailed) + Expanded Overview Diagram
  • Detailed/IP Addresses: Kaloom (Sveto) + Red Hat (Red Hat) Contributing
  • Overview Diagram (Presentation Type). Similar to ONES last year. Will add RAN + Slicing 
• 5G Super Blueprint (Enterprise Work Group Integration for ONAP/Magma) Overview Diagram
  • These Diagrams were created last week! Amar to review and update/clean up if needed.
  • Desire to explore / map integration points between projects. Will cover on next week's call
• Volunteers needed to help with the diagrams.
• Current network slicing done in ONAP Guillin.
• Data plane slicing was suggested. Boris (CENGN) to recommend a mapping of control plane with plane for future consideration.

Projects Integration

• Align with ONAP Enterprise WG Concepts 
• Code will be be upstreamed wherever possible. 
• 2 Types of Artifacts: 1). Contributions to upstream code. 2.) Non-code elements, etc. 
• Legal: Heather in discussions with LF legal team on license types. 

Rules of the Road & LFN Upstreaming 

Rules of the Road under development. Feedback welcome.

Louis presented his working draft. A SBP Jira is being set up and federated across related projects. Note: Magma does not use Jira so this involve manual updating. ONAP has approved the federation and has been set up. Louis taking this request to specific project TSCs. Any feedback on the Jira set up is welcome. This page is open feel free to add your thoughts and recommendations in the comments. In order to build out a project plan, we need to build from the diagrams under development. Next Call Idea: Diagrams review, project integration, and shift into technical work mapping. Fahad offered to help look at GitHub/GitLab integration/source code practices, code workflows, etc. 

5G SBP Work Streams 

Get Involved! Find an area where you can contribute. 

• Diagrams
• Rules of the Road
• LFN TAC Whitepaper 
• ONAP Enterprise Working Group Alignment + Integration (Prabhjot)
• LFN Project alignment work (Anuket, ODIM, ONAP, etc.)
• Mapping Features & Dependencies
• ONES Demo support
• ONES Booth support

AOB

Note: Brandon OOO June 24- July 5 (Will miss meeting on 6/29)

Next Week: Diagrams + Technical Discussion on Platforms

****** Meeting Minutes from 06/01 below *****

Parking Lot:

• Magma demo integration post ONES

Community Vision (Arpit)

See the Community vision presentation here.

Arpit collecting feedback from industry around the 5G Super Blueprint. Shared a presentation with a summary (enterprise, service providers, end users/governments). This is happening at a global level, multiple segments. Reviewed integration plan, definition and use cases (true end user services). The 5G SBP work will roll out in 3 phases. Next Steps: Continue, inter-project tech deep dive. Provide increased PM support (ONES Summit, Oct), Community Lifecycle management for Blueprints. Super Blueprint not a distro. 

Magma Road Map (Phil) TBD

See the Magma presentation here.

Phil provided a high level Magma overview. Magma Roadmap Principles: 1. Build what's needed 2. Rapid Iteration 3. Software delivery. Quarterly release cadence to start → monthly →agile. 

Magma Use Cases: Edge & Lightweight. Current: (Fixed Wireless, Carrier Wi-Fi, Private LTE). 2021 Roadmap: Mobile Broadband, 5G. 1.6 Release will be end of June. 

5G Stand alone delivery coming in June (after 1.6). Non-Stand Alone (4G Radios on 5G Core). Option 3x. Feel free to join the Magma Slack Channel: magmacore.slack.com. 

ODIM Proposal (Daniel)

See the ODIM presentation here. 

Daniel Nilsson provided an update on ODIM with ideas for how they can integrate in the 5G SBP initiative. ODIM helps with 5G infrastructure challenges. Q: What has been ODIM update from OEMs in the market? It's starting, still new, needs more support. Meeting on the topic next week at tech event. 

Rules of the Road

Louis started the framework for initiative: Rules of the Road - Under Construction

Covering Upstreaming, Repos, Licensing, Decision making, playbooks, Lab Resourses, Platform version roadmapping. 

Licensing will be key (need to standardize, especially for productization). Need to harmonize a statement around licensing.

Next Steps AOB

• 5G SBP Blog from Arpit published today: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/blog/super-blueprints-integrate-the-5g-open-source-stack-from-core-to-door/. Help share!
• 5G Cloud Native Network Demo Offline meeting this week
• Project Plans Under Development
• Lab Resources
• Magma POC Integration

****** Meeting Minutes from 05/18 below *****

LFN 5G Cloud Native Network Demo/POC 2021:

Status on current work demo

FlexRAN + Altran RAN + OpenShift Containers Update (Hanen/Rajat/Sam/Amar)

2 Things:

1 Getting the FlexRAN code/binaries: Have components ready for testing. Goal: Run on baremetal first. Adding 2 members to the call (Nidhi, Jianzhu) working to get the Openshift environment running in the lab in San Diego. Will provide the binaries after this happens. Future: Hanen/Sveto to then run the baremetal call in Montreal lab. Using a CentOS 7 container on Openshift. Kaloom can dedicate baremetal server specifically for this. 

2. Getting the Altran, CU/DU containers.

Sriram reached out to RAN team at Altran in India. Haven't heard back yet (COVID impacts). 

5G Radio Update (Sriram V/Kaloom Team)

Kaloom has been in touch with Sriram V. First step: Testing the radio in Austin lab first. Once determined to be fully working. After testing complete, will ship to Montreal lab and place in Faraday cage. Amar asked Sam if it's possible to FlexRAN up and running next week? That way we have sometime to test the radio against. Sam to provide Jianzhu with the image of the container. 

Question raised: Is there a diagram (planning) what this version of the demo will entail? Yes, this is a customary deliverable. Brandon/Amar to start a draft. 

E2E 5G Slicing Update (Sriram R)

Samir at Rebaca looking for a resource to assist.  Samir/Sriram in contact. Can wait another couple weeks.

5G Core is the initial phase, then E2E testing with emulator. The slices are there, needs testing (reliant upon Altran folks in India). Will then work on integrating with the UPF.

Sriram has been working with Swami/Lin and weekly ONAP 5G slicing calls. Testing on the Core. Will flag Catherine if any further help is needed from the ONAP community. 

5G Super Blueprint

Jira / GitHub Update (Louis)

The 5G Super Blueprint Jira now created. We need to consider now how to categorize the Jira. ONAP integration with a federated Jira has been approved but need to understand how this works. Louis to coordinate with ONAP, develop a recommendation for hierarchy, federation, workflows, etc. GitHub has not yet been set up; need to hammer out the same issues. Super Blueprint will upstream the code back to the project codebases wherever possible. Louis developing a ReadMe for Jira/GitHub. How do we make this effective? What are the categories and where do we filter? Project TSCs need to look at federation and upstreaming to project communities. LFN Staff needs to coordinate touching base with project TSCs.

ONAP Enterprise Working Group Update / Magma Integration (Amar) 

Amar gave a brief overview of the work being done to integrate ONAP with Magma happening on the ONAP Enterprise Working Group call. The presentation can be seen here.

Magma core has access gateway and Magma orchestrator. 1st step is orchestration. The magma controller is already containerized (CNF). Also a PNF/VNF (Hybrid approach). 

An ONAP Magma integration plan was shown. 

This is open initiative, anyone can get involved.

Please see the ONAP Enterprise Task Force Wiki: 

https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/TSC+Task+Force%3A+ONAP+for+Enterprise+Business

Bi-weekly call on Wednesday 7am PST - next one scheduled on 5/26

Need 5G Super Blueprint Use Case (Brandon/Heather)

Looking to identify a specific use case that we can develop to better show what the 5G Super Blueprint can do. What's the business case for the taking an open source approach? In the past, we've shown an E2E call on a keynote stage, what could we show (and how) in the future to make this real for folks? Initial ideas have been factory floor, warehouse, etc. A suggestion was made to look at the Magma development conference: 5G, Narrowband IOT. Aligning with their roadmap for IoT maybe be synergistic. Might be helpful to have the current roadmap presented to help foster conversation. It was noted that the Magma roadmap does currently function on 5G (narrowband IOT might not be the focus). Phil has volunteered to help be the conduit with this group. 

LFN Member participation encouraged. Call for the group: Send in your use case ideas? Child page created for use case brainstorming. Please add to this page. LFN Communities feedback + EUAG feedback needed. 

Next Steps / AOB

Topics for future calls:

• Jira/GitHub Read Me planning
• Project Plan Outline: Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3
• Playbooks Overview
• Anatomy of a Blueprint
• Additional Project Integration (ODIM, etc.)
• 5G SBP Whitepaper Development (Ranny)
• Potential 5G SBP Webinar in Q2

Next Meeting:

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 4, 8:00 AM PT/1500 UTC. Louis is on PTO 05/03 to 05/10, returning 05/11

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5G Super Blueprint Overview

The team concurs to reuse parts of the 5G Cloud Native demo/PoC into the 5G Super Blueprint where is makes sense. And to share technologies and methodologies. For example; common orchestration engine (based on ONAP), 5G-UE and gHB emulators, etc.

Working Group Logistics

Proposal: Use the foundation built by the LFN Demo: 5G Cloud Native Network working group as the "home" of the 5G Super Blueprint.

Track 1: Current Demo: 5G Cloud Native Network + RAN Integration + Network Slicing. Goal: Publish and promote working demo in Summer/Fall

Track 2: 5G Super Blueprint: In parallel, built a 5G Super Blueprint (specs, scripts, instructions, etc) covering the phases presented earlier. 

The tracks will use the SAME: Wiki, Mailing List, Slack Channel, & Meeting Schedule (to start). As needed, we could potentially split out a separate 5G Super Blueprint call, sub-section of the wiki, Slack Group, etc.

Channels:

• Slack Channel: https://join.slack.com/t/lfn-demo/shared_invite/zt-nkmmn4gh-Z5wUZNgo_tOJ958s31PGTQ
• Email group: lfn-demo+subscribe@lists.lfnetworking.org
• Jira

LFN TAC Whitepaper

• Ranny Haiby Leading effort at 5G Super Blueprint Whitepaper. Learn more and sign up to contribute here: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/e4AZAw.

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• The LFN TAC is interested in helping promote and move the 5G Super Blueprint forward. It has been proposed to present 5G Super Blueprint to the TAC on Wednesday 04/07.
• Status on current work
• Leveraging 5G Cloud Native Network Demo (Proof of Concept) 2021
• 5G Super Blueprint Criteria
  • Open source components where available
  • Proprietry components where Open Source component does not exist or is not compatible
  • LFN TAC Consult
• Blueprint Outputs (scrips, docs, mode/Yaml/Yang files). Do it in stages.
  • Establish forcing function
  • Consider leveraging Akraino best practices
• Establish upstreaming process
• 5G Super Blue Print Playbook
• Establish joint/cross project repos
  
  • Separate demo and 5G Super BP Jiras
  • Jira cross tagging- need IT discussion

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