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Welcome Message

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Housekeeping

Orange

Conference Bridge, WiFi, Breaks and Lunch, Room Access  

Agenda Review

Jonathan Beltran, AT&T

Brief overview of agenda and how organized

Opening Remarks

David Hutton, GSMA, Heather Kirksey, Linux Foundation

Opening round table remarks to outline long-term expectations, perspectives

Current Status And Vision

Overview & Level Setting

Mark Cottrell, AT&T, Rabi Abdel, Vodafone

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.

Community Technology Update

Facilitator: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone

Reference Model vs Reference Architecture vs Reference Implementation. MVP Concept.

Panel Discussion: Reference Model: Overall Concepts

Facilitator: Beth Cohen, Verizon

ETSI NFV ISG - Presented by Jorg Aelken, Ericsson

Pankaj Goyal, AT&T

Rabi Abdel, Vodafone

Mehmet Toy, Verizon

Community Input

Related concepts, i.e. ETSI. How does a Reference Model help achieve the community's objectives?, Agreeing on the CNTT concept. Feedback on CNTT concept. 

Reference Model Chapter 1 Introduction (R1) – Status Review, Q&A

Chapter Description: Overview, problem statement, scope, bogo-meter, & roadmap

Intro: Jonathan Beltran, AT&T

Facilitators: Beth Cohen, Verizon

Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community

Reference Model Chapter 2 VNF Requirements and Analysis (R1) – Status Review, Q&A 

Chapter Description: Analysis of requirements & NFVi profiles

Facilitator: Rabi AbdelTom Kivlin, Vodafone Group

Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community

Reference Model Chapter 3 Infrastructure Abstraction – Status Review, Q&A 

Chapter Description: Model, exposed vs. internal, exposed & internal NFVi capabilities, metrics, & constraints

Facilitators: Sabine Demel, DT; Mark Shostak, AT&T

Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community

Reference Model Chapter 4 Catalog (R1) – Status Review, Q&A

Chapter Description: Compute flavors, instance types, naming conventions

Facilitator: Rabi Abdel Tom Kivlin, Vodafone Group

Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community

Reference Model Chapter 5 Reference NFVI SW Profiles and Configurations (R1) – Status Review, Q&A 

Chapter Description: Basic, Network, & Compute NFVi reference software profiles configuration, & security

Facilitator: Karine Sevilla, Orange

Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community

Reference Model Chapter 6 Reference NFVI HW Profiles and Configurations (R1) – Status Review, Q&A

Chapter Description: Compute, Network, Storage, & Security configurations

Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T

Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community

Reference Model Chapter 7 APIs and Interfaces (R1 – NFVI APIs) – Status Review, Q&A

Chapter Description: NFVi APIs, supporting service APIs, acceleration interfaces & APIs, tool functionalities needed

Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T, Mark Shostak, AT&T

Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community

Day 1 –  Wrap Up

Facilitator: Jonathan Beltran, AT&T

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

Technology (Reference Model)

Opening – Recap and Day Ahead

Facilitator: Jonathan Beltran, AT&T

Reference Model: Release 2 Scope

Facilitator: Walter Kozlowski, Telstra, Rabi Abdel, Vodafone, Mark Shostak, AT&T

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

Technology WG overview

Facilitator: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone

Document Structure, Current Contributions framework, How to get involved

Chapter 8 (R1) – NFVI Security

Facilitator: Beth Cohen, Verizon

This section needs to be expanded in Release 2.  How much is this specific to NFVI?  How much can we base this on existing security standards and best practices?  Which standards apply?

• 8.1 Common standards.
• 8.1.1 Potential attack vectors
• 8.1.2 Testing demarcation points.
• 8.2 Operator responsibility.
• 8.3 VNF Vendors responsibility.
• 8.4 NFVI Vendors responsibility.

Chapter 9 (R1) - Reference Model Development

Facilitator: Mark Shostak, AT&T

(Description TBD)

Chapter 7 (R1) – Reference Model Development

Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T, Mark Shostak, AT&T

(Description TBD)

Chapter 3 (R1) - Reference Model Development

Facilitator: Sabine Demel, DT; Mark Shostak, AT&T

(Description TBD)

Chapter 5 (R1) - Reference Model Development

Facilitator: Karine Sevilla, Orange 

(Description TBD)

Chapter 6 (R1) - Reference Model Development

Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T

(Description TBD)

Chapter 1, 2, 4 (R1) – Reference Model Development

Facilitator: Beth Cohen, Verizon, Tom Kivlin, Vodafone Group

A guided discussion of what needs to be in the introduction (Chapter 1), based on the content of the other chapters.  Chapters 2 and 4 are both well along in the development of the content, the objective in this discussion is to validate the approach that the initial team created.  Does this match with the  understanding of the requirements by the vendor community?  Are there missing pieces that need to be added? 

Day 2 –  Wrap Up

Facilitator: Jonathan Beltran, AT&T