Task Force Members,
A summary and actions from today’s call are provided below. Key Update: A high level agenda has been created for the 3rd CNTT F2F working session in Antwerp – next steps are to establishing facilitators/presenters and further define the working sessions.
Attendees
Mark Cottrell (AT&T), Rabi Abdel (Vodafone), Pankaj Goyal (AT&T), Vincent Danno (Orange), Georg Kunz, Herbert Damker (DT), Ian Gardner (Vodafone), Mark Shostak (AT&T), Mike Bustamente (AT&T), Mike Fix (AT&T), Fu Qiao (China Mobile), Kyle Greenwell (Verizon), Markus, Rick Tennant (AT&T), Xu Yang, Pierre Bichon (Juniper), Toshi Wakayama (KDDI), Bob Monkman, Jim Baker (LFN), Zhiqiang Yu (Huawei)
Summary
- Housekeeping Items
- Call logistics updated to include LFN wiki links & zoom bridge information
- Chapter Zoom bridge creation / assignments are being worked
- Technology Update
- Overall
- Need to encourage broader community engagement; contributions include PR creation, taking assignments
- Critical to have inputs & feedback at this time as the RM | RA are being created
- RM | RA inputs, review, & feedback should be performed & communicated prior to the CNTT F2F workshop in Antwerp
- Not enough to request a pull request, be specific and assign issue to contributors
- Process: best way to engage additional contributors:
- Chapter leads recruit & encourage contributions from all members
- Subscribe to Github
- Assign an issue to members in Github
- Have members create a pull request in Github
- Request for Comment period, time expiration given to maintain momentum
- Idea: “Writing a book in a week” approach – Beth
- Reference Model
- Chapters progressing well with active PRs
- Issues are being created by Chapter Leads (captured in GitHub Issues)
- Reference Architecture
- Contacts: Rabi Abdel / Walter Kozlowski (Co-Leads)
- Release Management
- Meeting will be scheduled next week to formulate plan & structure (Jonathan)
- Contacts: Jim Baker / Jonathan Beltran / Rick Tennant (Co-Leads)
- Communications Management
- Test & Certification
- CNTT Reference Implementation Project submitted on 8/23 to OPNFV TSC
- Process is to submit, posted for 2 weeks, then moves to TSC
- Stakeholdering | ramp up will occur during the next 2 weeks
- Fu Qiao adding additional members to the submission
- Host location has not been identified – dependent on the where, how
- Jim Baker mentioned folks are getting anxious to get to work
- Contacts: Fu Qiao / Mike Fix / Kyle Greenwell (Co-Leads)
- Antwerp Face to Face (9/26-9/27)
- Registrations are now open for the CNTT 3rd F2F Working Group Session in Antwerp Belgium – REGISTER HERE
- FAQ for ONS reviewed:
- Rabi, Walter, & Vincent agreed to provide responses
- FAQ will be leveraged for ONS Europe panel discussion
- Item added: How will CNTT engage and leverage work performed by other open source communities: How can they contribute to CNTT?
- List attached to this email (word doc)
- Walter, Vincent, Rabi to join Antwerp Planning WG
- High Level Agenda reviewed – recommended changes:
- Condense Community, Recruiting, Adoption, Marketing
- Create breakout sessions to increase time / focus on RM, RA, RI, & Testing | Certification
- Additional information required on rooms to support concurrent sessions
- Next Steps: Identify owners, presenters, & detail planning for breakout sessions
- Session flow: Plenary session, then breakout, then come back again
- Contacts: Mark Cottrell / Rabi, Abdel / Beth Cohen (Co-Leads)
- Reminder: General Communications
- Community members should subscribe to the appropriate CNTT distribution list(s) to stay informed:
- Contacts: Jim Baker / Jonathan Beltran / Rick Tennant (Co-Leads)
Actions
- Antwerp Planning WG – revise agenda then share out to listservs again
- Rick – Add FAQ item: How do related communities play a role in e.g. Akraino
- Jonathan – Additional general discussion on alignment with other SDOs – create slide
- Jonathan – Change to UTC time on the meeting schedule
- All - (we) need to increase our communication and encourage broader participation in CNTT
- Jonathan – Send a reminder to community to subscribe to the mailing list
- Chapter Leaders - need to recruit and encourage meeting participants to create PRs, encourage others to do that
- Jonathan – Send Communication Email with timelines, dates, signup for list services, registration for Antwerp
- All – Everyone needs to keep repeating message to contribute
- Rick – send word doc out for Antwerp FAQs
What’s next?
- Increase Operator | Vendor engagement in all things CNTT
- Fall 2019 CNTT F2F Agenda & Logistics
- Identify and assess key open source communities for engagement with CNTT
