Date

27 Apr 2021

Attendees

LF Staff: Jim Baker, Kenny Paul
Committee Members: Beth Cohen Lei Huang, Ken KANISHIMA, Fernando Oliveira, Scott Blandford , Randy Levensalor , Massimo Banzi
Proxies:
Guests:

Agenda

• Start the Recording
• Antitrust Policy
• Agenda Bashing (Roll Call, Action Items (5 minutes)
• General Topics
  • Research survey on cloud native maturity for telecom ( follow-up) - Heather Kirksey Jim Baker
  • AI/ML White Paper - Beth Cohen @HJ Han

  • AI/ML data and model sharing project status - Jim Baker Lei Huang

Minutes

Cloud native maturity survey 

• Survey process 
• Open Questions Jim Baker to respond with email
  • What is the returned data? What is the benefit to the operators for sharing this info?
  • Would like to review survey prior to participation (at least a summary/outline)
  • Timeline of when the survey would be open and when results will be available?
  • Containers not exclusively cloud native. Some cloud native apps are not in containers.
    • Get this added to the survey - there is a continuum of solutions that could be "cloud native"
    • Containers, micro-services, etc.
    • "orchestrated containers" are cloud native by some definitions

AI/ML Survey - into a white paper Beth Cohen

• Automation is the major driver for AI/ML - which drives cost out of the operations
• Maturity is very low as the journey is just beginning
• Projected timeline - NOW
• Creating cross-company and cross-silo solutions is an organizational challenge
• Goal: make transport transparent
• Key take away: Keep it simple, capture the low hanging fruit, data lakes are difficult in each of assemble/integrate/secure/privacy
  • Eg. Facial recognition thought to be a panacea - training data was biased as are the results
• Scott BlandfordPerhaps a section on cross-vendor collaboration on data-sharing - how do we share data, anonymous, etc.
  • Not just the reason on what the roles of AI/ML are in telco but also why we need to work together
• Volunteers needed
  • Lei Huang to create workspace in wiki

AI/ML sharing project

• Massimo Banziapproached TelecomItalia staff on the POC 
  • TM Forum result possible could be shared - need a liaison/MOU between TMForum and LFN for this purpose
  • Kenny Paul LFN has a MOU in place with TM Forum - need to investigate
• Beth Cohen reviewed some additional use cases added to the registry: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/JIEZAw
  • Follow up - share at LFN TAC

Action items

• Kenny Paul to investigate if existing TM Forum/LFN MOU is sufficient for data sharing on AI/ML 11 May 2021