General information
When
July 23rd - July 25th 0900 - 1800 CEST
Where
Orange Gardens
44 avenue de la République
Châtillon (South Paris)
3B Building on the 2nd floor
All sessions will be in the main room : November (ex Giant100) (unless otherwise specified)
Other breakout rooms: December and February
Event registration can be found at this link: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/calendar/cntt-f2f-meeting/
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.
Remote presenters should use a headset when presenting as the built-in speaker/microphone on your laptop have horrible acoustics and are really hard to understand after going through the conference room PA system
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 | ||
|---|---|---|
(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 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 | 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. | |
(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 | Panel Discussion: Reference Model: Overall Concepts Facilitator: Beth Cohen, Verizon ETSI NFV ISG - Presented by Jorg Aelken, Ericsson Community Input Related concepts, i.e. ETSI. Agreeing on the CNTT concept. Feedback on CNTT concept. | |
(12:00) 30 Min Tue | 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 | |
(12:30) 60 min Tue | Lunch | |
(13:30) 30 Min Tue | Reference Model Chapter 2 VNF Requirements and Analysis (R1) – Status Review, Q&A Chapter Description: Analysis of requirements & NFVi profiles Facilitator: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(14:00) 60 Min Tue | 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, Magenta, Mark Shostak, AT&T Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(15:00) 15 min Tue | Break | |
(15:15) 30 Min Tue | Reference Model Chapter 4 Catalog (R1) – Status Review, Q&A Chapter Description: Compute flavors, instance types, naming conventions Facilitator: Burak Kazan, Turkcell Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(15:45) 30 Min Tue | 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 | |
(16:15) 30 Min Tue | 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 | |
(16:45) 30 Min Tue | 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 Review: Synopsis + Purpose + Goals + Maturity Status + Gaps + Feedback from Community | |
(17:30) 30 Min Tue | 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 | |
Agenda Day 2 -
Day 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
Technology (Reference Model) | ||
(09:00) 15 Mins Wed | Opening – Recap and Day Ahead Facilitator: Jonathan Beltran, AT&T | |
(09:15) 90 Mins Wed | 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 | |
(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) – Reference Model Development Intro: Jonathan Beltran, AT&T Facilitator: Beth Cohen, Verizon (Description TBD) | |
(14:00) 30 Mins Wed | Chapter 2 (R1) – Reference Model Development Facilitator: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone (Description TBD) | |
(14:30) 60 Mins Wed | Chapter 3 (R1) - Reference Model Development Facilitator: Sabine Demel, Magenta, Mark Shostak, AT&T (Description TBD) | |
(15:30) 15 min Wed | Break | |
(15:45) 30 Mins Wed | Chapter 4 (R1) – Reference Model Development Facilitator: Burak Kazan, Turkcell (Description TBD) | |
(16:15) 45 Mins Wed | Chapter 5 (R1) - Reference Model Development Facilitator: Karine Sevilla, Orange (Description TBD) | |
(16:45) 30 Mins Wed | Chapter 6 (R1) - Reference Model Development Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T (Description TBD) | |
(17:15) 30 Mins Wed | Chapter 7 (R1) - Reference Model Development Facilitator: Pankaj Goyal, AT&T (Description TBD) | |
(17:45) 15 Mins Wed | Day 2 – Wrap Up Facilitator: Jonathan Beltran, AT&T | |
Agenda Day 3 -
Day 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
(09:00) 15 Mins Wed | Opening – Recap and Day Ahead Facilitator: Jonathan Beltran, AT&T | |
Technology (Reference Architecture) | ||
(09:15) 90 Mins Wed | Panel Discussion: Reference Architecture: Principles Facilitator: Walter Kozlowski, Telstra Panel: Karine Sevilla, Pankaj Goyal, Rabi Abdel 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 #1: Straw-man Proposal Facilitator: Rabi Abdel, Vodafone 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, 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: 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 | |
(15:30) 15 min Tue | Break | |
Where Do We Go From Here | ||
(15:45) 90 Mins Wed | Panel Discussion: Adoption Strategy / Membership Facilitator: Mark Cottrell, AT&T 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 & Next Steps Facilitator: Jonathan Beltran, AT&T 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: David Hutton, GSMA, Heather Kirksey, Linux Foundation | |
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)
Site Contacts
Vincent Danno (vincent.danno@orange.com)
Karine Sevilla (karine.sevilla@orange.com)
A/V Contacts
Benoit Philoppot (bphilippot.ext@orange.com)
Background Materials
Additional Info
Templates
ToDo List
- site information
- getting there
- recommended lodging
schedule of events for the 3 dayszoom bridge details (by day)- Etherpads for each key topic
- wiki pages for recording the outcomes
- Next steps
- Next events
Key events contacts pageSite coordinatorA/V contactagenda organizer