• Attendees

  Committee Members: Beth Cohen, Ken KANISHIMA, Massimo Banzi, Scott Blandford

LF Staff: Kenny Paul, Brandon Wick

Guests: Lincoln Lavoie

• Agenda

  • Start the Recording
  • Antitrust Policy
  • Agenda Bashing (Roll Call, Action Items (5 minutes)
    • Drill down into what topics the EUAG is interested in pursuing in the coming year
    • LFN Marketing Update – Review of content in LFN's annual report and LFN MAC activities
    • Discussion of EUAG's role in advocating for Anuket Assured Program
    • Open APIs 

  Minutes

Marketing Update - Brandon Wick

• Annual report was published on Jan 10. https://www.lfnetworking.org/publications/2022/01/09/2021-lfn-year-in-review/
• Beth Cohenprovided input
• Published 3 whitepapers and delivered 2 webinars
• We look for thought leadership from the community to contribute to the report
• LFN hope that the report proves beneficial and helps the EUAG on its journey
• 1st MAC meeting of the year is tomorrow - think that we have a good story to tell about LFN and want to stress what makes us different from other orgs/initiatives
• Happy to help the EUAG in its evolution in 2022 whatever that may be.

Anuket Assured Lincoln Lavoie

• Program web page https://www.lfnetworking.org/verification/
• Anuket Assured pushes the verification to the vendor community so that service providers do need to focus their testing on those specific areas- the badge ensures that the testing performed by the vendor has in fact been validated and is not just empty words of a vendor telling you "Yes it works."
• Attending EUAG to encourage carriers to incorporate the Anuket Assured badging into their vendor requirements. LFN wants spread the word about the program and ensure that end users are able to make use of the work
• Lincoln Lavoie presented slides from the January DTF
• Program's focus is currently being applied to CNFs
• Massimo Banzi looking at testing of LFN solutions and have seen some positive things
• Anuket assured covers OpenStack - noted that Orange is making use of Anuket Assured testing themselves.
• Clarification provided that the vendors are engaging with the program and that badging is granted when validated. 
  • Noted that there will always a lag between when Anuket releases something and when the vendors can ramp up to actually validate against it. 
  • Anuket Assured has 2 releases a year - offset with ONAP's cycle 
• Link to Anuket TSC minutes: https://wiki.anuket.io/x/Q4RAAQ
• Beth Cohen notes that Verizon is making use of Anuket Assured testing and sees value from it
• Ken KANISHIMA Used OPNFV badging previously  -n need to learn more about this one
• Q: who has been issued an Anuket Assured badge?
  • A: This is the 1st Anuket Assured release and several venders are building the infrastructure to support and test against the requirements.
    • The CNF Infrastructure badge is currently available whenever a vendor validates against it.   
    • The CNF Workload badging requirements are still a WIP by the team.  
• Scott Blandford will reach out to Al Morton to see if this can be placed into an RFP today. Just need to learn more.
• Lincoln Lavoie can attend next call to provide a deeper dive - caveat not the actual testing expert
• Noted that some EUAG members may be unable to influence utilization of the program due to org structure and internal alignment

What should EUAG be working on in 2022?

• Scott Blandford as mentioned at the Jan DTF less interested in research and more on how do we influences the LFN Projects to do what end users really want.  If that takes surveys, great. If we want to publish the results of the survey, great. Spending months on working on a paper is not beneficial.  Need to make sure that the surveys we put out are vetted by the EUAG and not a single company driven.
• Beth Cohen may want to revisit AI/ML and perhaps look into NaaS - the intelligent networking survey was beneficial to level set 
• Massimo Banzi TMForum Acceleration event next week https://accelerate.tmforum.org/.  Full agenda https://info.tmforum.org/rs/021-WLD-815/images/Accelerate.AgendaAtAGlance.2022.pdf may have some relevant topics
  
  

Next meeting  15 Feb 2022 

• Drill down into Anuket Assured testing
• Drill down into what topics the EUAG is interested in pursuing in the coming year
• Open APIs 

Action items

• Kenny Paul add Lincoln Lavoie to 15 Feb 2022 invite.