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Minutes of Technical Community Discussion on January 15, 2015

  • Date and Time: UTC 14:00, Thursday January 15, 2015
  • Convenor: Bin Hu (AT&T)
  • Participants:
    • Al Morton (AT&T)
    • Bryan Sullivan (AT&T)
    • Carlos Goncalves (NEC)A
    • Dave Lenrow (HP)
    • Dick Chen (ZTE)
    • François-Frédéric Ozog (6wind)
    • Hui Deng (China Mobile)
    • Juha Oravainen (NSN)
    • Li Chen (China Mobile)
    • Lingli Deng (China Mobile)
    • Manuel Rebellon (Sandvine)
    • Marcin Szczukiewicz (Nokia)
    • Margaret Chiosi (AT&T)
    • Mike Young
    • Paul-Andre Raymond (Nexius)
    • Praveen Kumar
    • Qiao Fu (China Mobile)
    • Rajeev Seth (Sonus Networks)
    • Rimma Iontel (Redhat)
    • Ryota Mibu (NEC)
    • Stuart Mackie (Juniper)
    • Subhashini Venkataraman (Freescale)
    • Udi Margolin (Alcatel-Lucent)

Lingli presented the project proposal. This proposal was briefly introduced on Dec 18. There were discussions on the mailing list since then. The supporters of the proposal had a conference call on Jan 7. The proposal was revised and evolved.

Margaret asked if the "Pass-Through Model" has been implemented, and there are code already. Lingli explained that the target of the project is to develop the code of "Functional Abstraction Layer" in both "Pass-Through Model" and "Fully Intermediated Model".

Another question was why the MANO interface was out of scope now. Lingli clarified that this project took 2-step approach. The scope of Step 1 includes data plane interfaces (Vn-Nf and Vi-Ha). MANO interfaces (Or-vi and Nf-Vi) will be addressed in Step 2.

Bin asked if the "Host Driver" is already available in hypervisor. Lingli explained that hypervisor also needs to be extended with "Host Driver".

Margaret asked if we have NIC vendor on board. Lingli took the action to update the wiki with a placeholder to have NIC vendor's commitment. Meanwhile, Lingli will work with NIC vendors to get them on board.

The group felt that the proposal was mature and ready for creation review and approval in TSC. Margaret motioned, and Dave seconded, and group agreed that the project proposal be sent to TSC for creation review and approval.

Dave presented this proposal. Basically, this proposal expanded the VNFFG concept in ETSI with more details in implementation. It intends to bring in OpenStack work on VNFFG and ONF OpenFlow work on service chaining by integrating OpenStack SFC related components with different vendors’ VNFs instantiated on virtual machines. It will demonstrate an OpenStack based and OpenFlow compliant solution which will dynamically set up VNFFG so that different tenants’ flows can be steered through different sequence of VNFs.

Margaret felt it was a very good proposal, and interested in being a committer.

Dave will work with other committers to further polish the proposal, and communicate with wider stakeholders including the proposal of Service Function Chaining, and see if it is possible to consolidate those 2 similar projects in the area of network function chaining.

The proposal author was not present. No one presented. Postponed to next meeting.

The proposal author was not present. No one presented. Postponed to next meeting.

The proposal author was not present. No one presented. Postponed to next meeting.

  • Discussion of Collaborative Development project proposals

The proposal author was not present. No one presented. Postponed to next meeting.

The proposal author was not present. No one presented. Postponed to next meeting.

  • Discussion of Integration and Testing project proposals:

The proposal author was not present. No one presented. Postponed to next meeting.

  • Discussion of other projects

None.

Hui indicated that it would be better to use GoTo Meeting which is easier for the participants in China to dial in. Bin will work with Ray to get a GoTo Meeting slot.

Meeting adjourned

wiki/tc_minutes_20150115.txt · Last modified: 2015/05/06 20:05 by Daniel Farrell