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

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

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.

Community Technology Update

Facilitator: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone

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

Reference Model: Overall Concepts

Community

Agreeing on the concepts. Feedback about the concept.

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

Facilitator: Beth Cohen, Verizon

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

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

Facilitator: TBD

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

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

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

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

Facilitator: Burak Kazan, Turkcell

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

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

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

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

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

Technology (Reference Model)

Opening – Recap and Day Ahead

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

Technology WG overview

Facilitator: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone

Document Structure, Current Contributions framework, How to get involved

Chapter 1 (R1) – Development

Facilitator: TBD

Chapter 2 (R1) – Development

Facilitator: TBD

Chapter 3 (R1 - Modelling) - Development

Facilitator: Bernard Tsai, DT

(Description TBD)

Breakout Sessions

Room A

Room B

Chapter 3x (R1) – Development

Facilitator: Mark Shostak, AT&T

(Description TBD)

Chapter 4 (R1) – Development

Burak Kazan, Turkcell

(Description TBD)

Chapter 5 (R1) - Development

Facilitator: Karine Sevilla, Orange

(Description TBD)

Chapter 7 (R1) - Development

Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T

Chapter 6 (R1) - Development

Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T

(Description TBD)

TBD

Day 2 –  Wrap Up

Opening – Recap and Day Ahead

Technology (Reference Architecture)

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.

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.

Support and Sponsorship

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? 

Reference Implementation / OVP & CVC ecosystem

Facilitator: Fu Qiao, China Mobile

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

Where Do We Go From Here

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.

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