==== Minutes of Doctor Project on November 17, 2014 ====

  * ''Date and Time'': UTC 14:00, Monday November 17, 2014
  * ''Convenor'': Ashiq Khan (NTT DOCOMO)
  * ''Participants'':
    * Ashiq Khan (NTT DOCOMO)
    * Bertrand Souville (NTT DOCOMO)
    * Carlos Goncalves (NEC)
    * Juha Oravainen (Nokia)
    * Michael Lynch (Intel)
    * Palani Chinnakannan (Cisco)
    * Peter Lee (ClearPath)
    * Petri Kemppainen (Nokia)
    * Ryota Mibu (NEC)
    * Tapio Tallgren (Nokia)
    * Ulrich Kleber (Huawei)
    * Others

1) Technical aspects and relevance to upstream projects

Ryota created new [[doctor| Wiki page]] to start technical discussions on the "Doctor" Project.
He presented his document:
  * Use cases section includes short description of the Auto Healing, Safe Switching and VM retirement use cases.
  * Requirement section contains an initial list of features and items to be addressed.
  * Architecture section contains a description of the architecture functional blocks and one example implementation in OpenStack. 
  * It was clarified that the resource owner may be VNFM or NFVO. What is important is to have the feature in the northbound interface.
  * Discussion around adequate pub/sub model for fault notification. Palani agreed to support this activity.
  * Ryota explained that during the OpenStack Paris Summit, there were some discussions on letting Monitor(s)/Inspector update resource state information (e.g. VM state in Nova). This idea was accepted by Nova team.
  * It was also agreed to have the Monitor(s) / Inspector outside of OpenStack / VIM (easier to extend these functional blocks if outside of OpenStack when new types of NFVI faults need to be reported to the VIM).
  * It was clarified that Heat is emulator for VNFM/NFVO and interface between Heat and Nova shall be used for corrective actions on VMs.
  * All are welcomed to edit [[doctor| Wiki page]], review/modify/add new use cases and notify Ryota of changes to this page.
  * All are welcomed to draw other architecture figures.

2) Resources available and necessary for this project
  * Initial list of developers / committers: Ryota, Carlos, Tomi, Zhangyu, Palani
  * Initial list of contributors to specs / documentation: Ashiq, Uli, Serge, Dirk

3) Scoping and scheduling (what features to be realized in what time frame)

{{ :requirements_projects:timeline_doctor_r1.png |}}

Important milestones:
  * OpenStack Gap Analysis by end Nov 2014
  * First Spec ready by mid Dec 2014. Second / Revised Spec ready by mid / end Jan 2015
  * Blueprints submitted to OpenStack by end Mar 2015 (L-release)
  * Depending on the progress of the work, blueprints may already be submitted in Jan 2015 (Kilo-release)

4) AOB
  * It was decided to have weekly meetings.
  * Because of national holiday in Japan on Nov 24, next meeting is planned on Dec 1 (Mon) at 14:00 UTC

5) Action Items
  * Ashiq to report on what kind of faults need to be detected from operational point of view
  * Ashiq to check timeline of other upstream projects (e.g. KVM, ODL)
  * Palani to report on relevant pub/sub Open Source project