Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Attendees:

Please add your name in here:

1. Mark Shostak* (AT&T)
2. Kelvin Edmison (Nokia)
3. Nick Chase (Mirantis)
4. Trevor Cooper (Intel)
5. Al Morton (AT&T)
6. Michael Fix (AT&T)
7. Ahmed El Sawaf (STC)
8. Karine Sevilla (Orange)
9. Ulrich Kleber (Huawei)
10. Manik Sidana (VoerEir)
11. Pierre Lynch (Keysight)
12. Georg Kunz (Ericsson)

Special Notes:

• Each of the three RM sections will get 20 minutes
• Given the limited time available, we will focus on identifying issues/actions/next steps,  but not solving them right now

Agenda:

• Linux Foundation Anti-Trust Policy Notice
• GSMA Anti-Trust Policy Notice
• Agenda bashing

• Methodology update

  • Drive document through concise, actionable Issues
    • Identify MVP items/content
    • Enumerate MVP items into high-level content
    • Translate high-level content to open Issues (detailed level)
  • Weekly RM meetings will
    • Identify owners for new Issues
    • Track open Issues
    • Address technical issues that cannot be resolved online (i.e. resolve stalls)
    • Address open questions

• RM Core (status) (Mark S.)
  • Status
  • Need Issue and volunteer: Determine which caps to eliminate from RMCH-4
  • New Content - Container support
  • New Content - VNF Design Guidelines - Need Issue and volunteer to own initial content

• RM Ops (status) (Ahmed)
  • Status
  • OA&M - New MVP Content
    • FM
    • Logging
    • Provisioning/State (CM)
  • LCM - New MVP Content
    • LCM scope / areas covered
    • Generic installer model
    • Scope/function/state
    • Node prototypes and creation by installer

• RM Comp (status) (Victor)
  • Status
  • TBD

• Open questions
  • Should CNTT specify hardware? If so, to what level?
  • How to accommodate both homogeneous and heterogeneous server farms?
  • Do we need to add a constraints category? (e.g., maximum number of cores you can allocate to a single VNF)
    • For example: | e.nfvi.res.cap.001 | #vCPU | number | Min, Max number of vCPU that can be assigned to a single VNFC | -- Are these Capabilities or Constraints?
  • Does the VIM really need its own category of PMs and Caps? (e.g., e.vim.cap.xxx)

• New Business

Actions:

• General
  • None at this time
•  Core
  • Kelvin: Sync up w/ internal people WRT VNF Design Guidelines input
• Ops
  • Trevor: Sync up w/ Owen (from Intel)
• Comp
  • None at this time

Minutes:

• General
  • Discussed methodology
  • Nick Chase volunteered to assist people w/ technical writing
•  Core
  • Discussed VNF Guidelines and other listed Core agenda items
• Ops
  • Ahmed presented draft monitoring architecture for feedback (as follows)
    
    • Kelvin: Indicated focus on metrics, rather than architecture (implementation)
    • Kelvin: Indicated diagram might be more appropriate for RA
    • Karine: Diagram should be more generic for RM
• Comp
  • Nil