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Attendees & Representation. Please add your name to the attendance table below.

LF Staff:  LJ Illuzzi

Agenda

• LF Antitrust Policy

• Meeting note taker

• Welcome to new attendees

• Private Enterprise Number (PEN) Request for L3AF- LF Legal gave the ok to proceed. Next steps?

• Developer and Testing Forum in January 2022 (virtual event)

  • Topic submission- L3AF: eBPF for Windows and Cross Platform eBPF programs - thank you Daniel and Poorna!

  • Any others?

• Update on PM Housekeeping:
  • Email reminder to add agenda items to be sent every Monday via mailing list calendar
  • Template button - Click to create agenda topics.
  • Add agenda for next meeting during current meeting under "Future Agenda Items".
  • Holiday schedule:
    • Meetings on Dec. 8, 15
    • Dec. 22 and 29th to be canceled
    • Jan 5th: Developer and Testing Forum Prep.

• General Topics (cover as needed)

  • Use Cases

  • Roadmap

  • Project structure

    • Governance

    • Technical Steering Committee

Minutes/Updates

• Avi: Where is the L3AF project at currently?
  • Orchestration across any eBPF platform in order to solve business problems
  • L3AFd which runs on any host.

• General Topics (cover as needed)

  • Use Cases

  • Roadmap

  • Project structure

    • Governance

    • Technical Steering Committee

Action Items

Future Agenda Items

***** Minutes from previous call *****

• Polycube - Yunsong Lu representing
  • Polycube is specific to Networking
  • eBPF replace iptables → *this would be more crossplatform than current iptables designs
  • eBPF Network Functions - 2010 PhD dissertation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9340283
  • Challenges - scale and rapid change in Linux kernel
  • Kenny Paul: Where is Polycube used in production?
    • No open information.
    • Driven by developers in iovisor - not product tested.
    • Apache license
  • Presentation posted on L3AF Wiki page
  • Yunsong:L 3AF code shares same goal as Polycube. What is the target market for L3AF? Long term goal?
    • BrianM: L3AF - general purpose platform for orchestrating and running eBPF programs. Big driver is production features@ Wallmart. Kernel function marketplace, etc.
  • DanielH: Can we switch from GPL to MIT licensing to make the code cross-platform with OSes like Windows and Apple?
• Developer and Testing Forum
  • L3AF has placeholder but doesn't have topics yet.
  • eBPF for Windows topic is apropos
    • @Daniel to ask @Dave about this: 2022 LFN Developer Event Topics January
      
      • 30-60 mins
• Housekeeping:
  • Email reminder on Mondays or Friday to add agenda items.
  • Template button - Click to create agenda topics.
  • Add agenda for next meeting during current meeting.
  • Holiday schedule:
    • Meetings on Dec. 8, 15
    • Dec. 22 and 29th canceled
    • Jan 5th: Developer and Testing Forum Prep.