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Rev	Date	Author	Description	Reviewed	Approved by
v10	27 Sept 2021	Beth Cohen (Verizon)	Edited for readability – Final Review Needed
v09	26 Sept 2021	Beth Cohen (Verizon)	Edited all the materials together
v08	14 Sep 2021	Yuhan Zhang（CMCC） Lingli Deng(CMCC) Kaixi Liu(CMCC)	Revising the structure and content of the white paper Adding recommendations for the intelligent networking transformation
V07	17 Aug 2021	Yuhan Zhang（CMCC）	merged with v06
V06	03 Aug 2021	Beth Cohen (Verizon)	Updates by Steve Casey (Verizon) Not merged with the work by Yuhan yes.
V05	03 Aug 2021	Yuhan Zhang（CMCC）	Recommendation for network intelligence testing and certification	EUAG Team
V04	20 Jul 2021	Yuhan Zhang（CMCC）	survey results, challenge	EUAG Team
V03	24 May 2021	Massimo Banzi (TI) Beth Cohen (Verizon) Steve Casey (Verizon)	Definition sections, survey analysis	EUAG Team	Uploaded
V01	15Apr2021	Beth Cohen (Verizon)	Creation of original document and outline of paper.	EUAG Team
V02	13May2021	Beth Cohen (Verizon)	Outline with some text. Asking for input from the EUAG Team	EUAG Team

White Paper Assumptions and Overall Objectives:

Audience: Technical and strategic leaders in the Telecom Industry interested in understanding the role of intelligent tools, AI and machine learning can have in support of their network infrastructure, customer .
7-10 Pages in length total – possibly will be some separate related papers on specific use cases and other information that does not fit into this one
Do not declare or propose a definite solution just share EUAG Operator community point of view
Purpose of White Paper is to share information about EUAG member companies’ approaches to network intelligence

Paper Overview

Based on the findings of a LFN sponsored survey of over 60 operators and vendors in the telecom segment, demonstrate the current state of adoption of the AI/ML technology for operators.
Make recommendations for where Open Source communities should be focusing their resources to further the intelligent networking efforts.
Call to action: Market and executive orientation. Purpose is to get people excited about Intelligent Networking as emerging technology and its importance, yet have an understanding of where the gaps are in both the technology and its adoption.. Bullet list of gaps. 2-3 bullet items. Identify missing Open-Source tools and potential projects.

@Yuhan Zhang Beth Cohen

Uploaded current version of paper

Contributors/CSPs	Sections	Status	Comments
Beth Cohen (Verizon)	Section 1-9	Created first draft	Posted first draft to this page.
Yuhan Zhang (China Mobile)	Section 1-9
Lei Huang (China Mobile)	Section 1-9		Created workspace in confluence page
Massimo Banzi (STC)	TBA
Steve Casey (Verizon)	TBA

Work Items	Time
Complete the paper final draft	Sep 13th,2021
EUAG review and final version	Sep 17th,2021
Share a form paper MAC magic	Sep 24th,2021
Publication	Oct 8th,2021
ONES Summit White Paper Webinars	Oct & Nov,2021