Date

22 Oct 2019 

Attendees

• LFN Staff Jim Baker 

• Members:  Atul Purohit Cecilia Corbi Beth Cohen  Herbert Damker Lei Huang Marc Fiedler Marc-Alexandre Choquette  Olivier Augizeau Rabi Abdel Saad Ullah Sheikh Serge Manning Vincent Colas Guy Meador

• Guests:  Scott Blandford Christophe Closset Mark Shostak @mike fix

Discussion items

Agenda

1. CNTT EUAG plan - how to best support the CNTT program

2. ONAP consumption models white paper development planning

3. January LFN DDF/CNTT/OPNFV plugfest/OVP VNF Hacking meeting announcement
   1. Prague January 13-16 https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/lf-networking-ddf-plugfest-2020/register/

CNTT EUAG plan

• Atul Purohit reviewed a set of CNTT adoption challenges
• Proposing a CNTT/EUAG adoption plan amongst the service providers
• Rabi Abdel Need to make sure the VNF vendors are aligned to the service provider adoption plans 
• Beth Cohen CNTT is not really a consumable - it's more a forcing alignment within the vendor community
• Operators need to agree that CNTT certified is a part of the acquisition/RFP process
  • Both operators and vendors will benefit from reduced permutation matrix of NFVI support
  • Need to discuss - what are the impacts of CNTT/challenges Rabi Abdel
  • Propose next week bring in a basic framework
  • Need to define a maturity matrix for the VNFs - (fully virtualized, cloud-native, etc.)
  • Create a road map of what and when Saad Ullah Sheikh
  • How will this change the procurement process? 
• Next steps
  • develop strategy/plan and timeline for white paper
  • Create a simple mapping between CNTT/EUAG 
    • Once we identify the CNTT/EUAG intersection
    • Send out a overview of the value props of CNTT AND discover why carriers may not be involved
  • Include this value proposition in the white paper
• CNTT provides technology leadership
  • Defines gaps in upstream projects and push requirements up
  • LFN to help funnel requirements into both LFN projects AND other FOSS projects

ONAP consumption models white paper

• LFN TAC also writing a white paper - focus on ONAP positioning and roadmap
• EUAG focus on the consumption model - 4 key sections
  • Purpose of WP Cecilia Corbi Saad Ullah Sheikh Beth Cohen
  • Similar initiatives (OpenStack, Kubernetes) Beth Cohen 
  • Consumption model Beth Cohen  Brian Freeman  Marc-Alexandre Choquette Lei Huang Atul Purohit
  • How to improve iteratively? (defer until later)
• Jim Baker to help coordinate the EUAG and TAC white papers
• AI Create a wiki page per section Jim Baker

• Atul Purohit to post the white paper process and proposed outline for community review/contribution
• Jim Baker to form break out calls and help converge contributors and content for whitepaper