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 - the badge ensures that the testing performed by the vender is in fact validated and not just empty words
- what is presented today was influenced by the January DTF
- Want to help spread the word about the program and ensure that end users are able to make use of the work
- Focus is currently being applied to Cloud Native
- Massimo Banzi looking at testing of LFN solutions and have seen some positive
- Anuket assured covers OpenStack - noted that Orange is making use of Anuket Assured testing.
- Scott Blandford questions about program - clarification provided that the vendors are engaging and that badging is granted when validated. Suggested that Scot look at what is going on in Anuket. Link to Anuket TSC minutes: https://wiki.anuket.io/x/Q4RAAQ
- Beth Cohen notes that Verizon is making use of Anuket Assured and getting value from it
- Ken KANISHIMA Used OPNFV badging previously who has gotten an Anuket Assured badge?
- A: There is always a lag between when Anuket releases something and when the vendors can ramp up to validate. This is the 1st Anuket Assured release and several venders are working on the infra to support and test against the requirements - The CNF Infrastructure badge is currently available when a vendor validates against it. CNF Workload badging requirements are still a WIP. This is why we are here today to get carriers to incorporate the Anuket Assured badging into their vendor requirements.
- 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 ca attend next call to provide a deeper dive - caveat not the actual testing expert
- Ken KANISHIMA need to learn more about the project, but unsure if actual usage can be influenced due to org structure and alignment
- Anuket Assured has 2 releases a year - offset with ONAP's cycle
What should EUAG be working on in 2022?
- Scott Blandford as mentioned at the Jan DTF less interested in research and 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
Next meeting
- 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
Action items
- Kenny Paul add Lincoln Lavoie to invite.