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- Need to establish a common view of the objectives and benefits of such coordination.
- Query about objectives of the worksheet:
- Confirm the topics identified from Workshop #1.
- Who is interested in what topics? Frameworks specific meaning of definitions / terms
- Who might be planning to contribute?
- Alignment by sharing of work
- Possibly jointly developed document.
- Approach is to establish which groups have interest in which areas.
- Noted that topics are similar and different groups may be working on similar concepts but at different levels of the network.
- General consensus to work out what to do together in concrete form
Concerns- Operatonal/ organisational
- Concern if the work addresses standardization as that will take much time.
- Joint specification would require discussions on rules and procedures.
And is the purpose of the parallel Inter SDO meeting for later in March 2021. - Over arching document might be feasible. E.g. White paper
- Could be definitions and or frameworks
- Use case
- Test and verification
- Different group will have more of less engagement and some topics might be of higher or lower priority.
- Autonomous levels is this separate from maturity levels? Consensus was yes.
- Conceptually alignment whilst necessary might still not create aligned outputs for example APIs models split between common /non domain specific and domain specific.
- Intent APIs are one example where divergence across SDO would be unhelpful.
- Concerns about establishing a mega organization for create common framework
- Multiple things done in organization trying to create consistency work in collaboration using Liaison offices and liaisons
- Need avoid creating obstacles and impeding SDO progressing their works
- Idea of PoC looks good and was supported by multiple participant
- Concerns about setting a scope of work that is too large to be done within reasonable timeframe and effort.
- Starting point should be the existing SDO material and consider motivation and issues they plan to solve. E.g. whether Autonomous Network means the same in all organizations. Should try to find the commonalities and how complementary work.
CSP Concerns and Proposal/Ask
- Major Obstacle obstacle for CSP is to follow and analyze the activity of the SDOs organization.
- PROPOSAL: Suggestion that CSP would benefit initially from a document setting out the landscape of AN activities across SDOs to create a common understanding, more elaborated understanding of the terminologies (some are technical e.g. Autonomous Networks Autonomous Domains; and some are types of deliverables) and get a picture of where the industry is going i.e. form of roadmap (attracted several supporting comments).
Technical Concerns and Proposal
- Would be useful to know the current detailed work on the list of topics where coordination could be useful.
- Common operational principle: Need to establish what is common across SDOs. And would need metamodels. Reference t o IEEE Common overarching operational principles. Contributed by IEEE, AFI and TM Forum.
- Metamodels strong opinion opinions were expressed both against and for Metamodels:
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- Common information models:
- Federation / merge of information models was successful for Network models as developed between 3GPP and TM Forum and common models lead by Cablelabs.
- Concern about creating new over arching model as that creates N+1 standards.
- Should try to establish what was done in the past that worked well.
- PROPOSAL: Review proposal developed by IEEE at FUture networking conference "Overarching Blueprint of Common Operational Principles of Autonomic/Autonomous Networks," which involves Mappings for Federated Models as well
- Concern that even aligning principles guidelines across SDOs could be a challenge as implies changes to existing SDO specifications.
- Formal contributions might be best done by company contributions as easier to handle in the SDO Working Groups.
- Outcomes could be:
- sharing Sharing of information.
- Sharing of definition, then figure out if there a was mutual interest to create shared understanding which could then become the Landscape/ Roadmap.
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