EUAG 2021-06-22 Meeting notes

Date

22 Jun 2021

Attendees

LF Staff: Jim Baker Brandon Wick
Committee Members: Randy Levensalor Lei Huang Scott Blandford Beth Cohen  
Proxies:
Guests: Yuhan Zhang

Agenda

• Start the Recording
• Antitrust Policy
• Agenda Bashing (Roll Call, Action Items (5 minutes)
• General Topics
  • AI/ML white paper update- Beth Cohen @Yuhan Zhang Lei Huang
  • AI data & model sharing project (follow-up) - Lei Huang Jim Baker

Minutes

Anuket update moved to 06 Jul 2021 

AI/ML White Paper Update Yuhan Zhang

• Target date to publish the white paper - ONE Summit - Oct 2021
• More contributors sought
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• Next steps:
  • Yuhan Zhang to integrate and upload Intelligent Networking White Paper_v1 - yh.docx
  • Develop review and input from other EUAG members of survey findings and conclusions
  • More arguments on the importances of AI/ML in networks
  • Need a way to do shared data sets across operators for training models

AI data and model sharing

• Development of the data sharing process
  • Agree on the specific use case
  • Each operator would need to agree on a data definition and clean their data for a shared dataset
• Anuket AI/ML has a community interest - ONE TIME meeting  meeting 28 Jun 2021  at 1300 UTC
  • Standing meeting: Fridays at 1400 UTC 
• Invite Sridhar Rao  to EUAG for 06 Jul 2021 

Anuket Intro Beth Cohen

• Need EUAG support in a few areas:
  • Major operators contributors: AT&T, Telstra, Vodafone, Verizon, China Mobile
  • Merger of CNTT (2 years old) and OPNFV (5 years old)
    • OPNFV focus is a create a testing and badging system for both infra and network functions
    • CNTT was created to get operators to agree on infrastructure definitions
      • Partners with GSMA to publish specs
      • Single reference model with multiple reference architectures (containers and virtualized environments)
      • Reference implementations are developed and verified by a reference conformance set of tests
  • New badging being developed: Anuket Assured
    • This is where the EUAG help is needed
    • Lead off with getting operator alignment THEN engage the vendors by requesting badging of their product offerings
  • This is an attempt to commoditize infrastructure
    • Infrastructures is NOT a differentiating factor for network operators
• Questions/Answers
  • What are the first items for EUAG to address?
    • Support the Anuket Assured badging program.
  • Are there specific requirements for badging? 
    • Cycle of improvement
      • Review the RA definitions - RA1 Pankaj Goyal and RA2 Riccardo Gasparetto Stori
      • Offline discussions and plan for a joint meeting with Anuket
  • Couple the topics on testing?

Action items