[Nsi-wg] Minutes for last conf call

[Guy Roberts]

Hi All,

Please find below minutes from last weeks conference call.

Could you please check your contributions to the Architecture 
deliverable and let me know if there are any changes you would like to make.

I look forward to receiving your contributions in advance of OGF26.

Regards,
Guy

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Minutes NSI-WG conf call
Attendees:
Radek Krzywania (RK)
Chin Guok (CG)
Jeroen van der Ham (JH)
John Vollbrecht  (JV)
Eduard Escalona (EE)
Joan Antoni García Espín (JA)
Sebastien Soudan (SS)
Guy Roberts (GR)

Not present, but nominated as authors:
Gigi Karma-Edwards (GK)
Tomohiro Kudoh (TK)
Jerry Sobieski (JS)
Jeff Boote  (JB)
Joe Mambretti  (JMa)
Joe Metzger (JMe)
Andrew Lake (AL)
Aaron Brown (AB)
Pascale Primet (PP)
Artur ?
Mary?

AP1  Chin G to follow up on authors for monitoring section
AP2  John V to follow up with Aaron to see if he can lead topology 
sharing section.
AP3  John V to follow up with JS/GK confirm lead for path computation 
section

The purpose of this call was to assign authors to the Architecture 
deliverable.  The author assignment is summarized here:

1.    Naming and modelling
This section considers the naming of network objects and the data 
modelling of these objects.
Lead author:  JH
Authors:  GR, JV
Due date:  13 May

2.    Topology sharing
This section considers how topologies can be exchanged over the NSI 
interface.
Lead author:  AB (to be confirmed)
Author:  GR, JH, RK, JA
Due date:  13 May

3.    Path computation
This section considers how path computation relates to the NSI interface 
– describes where is this function can be performed and the inputs and 
outputs of the path computation function.
Lead author:  GK/JS  (to be confirmed)
Author:  RK, JA
Due date:  13 May

4.    Authentication and trust
This section considers how to authenticate a user, ie how to validate 
users are who they claim to be.
Lead author:  Mary ?
Author:  JV
Due date:  13 May

5.    Authorization and policy
This section considers the rights/authorizations that a user has once 
they have been authenticated.
This section will not be covered in Chapel Hill

6.    Service Discovery
This section considers a service that replies to queries on 
resource/service availability.
Lead author:  EE
Author:  JS, JMa
Due date:  6 May

7.    Environments (tree/chain)
This section considers the management plane/control plane architecture 
of the NSI, i.e. the way that the data flows over the NSI interface
Lead author:  RK
Author:  GR
Due date:  6 May

8.    Scheduling and job control
This section considers how scheduling is supported by the NSI and 
associated job control flows.
Lead author:  TK
Author:  PP, SS
Due date:  13 May

9.    Connection Restoration
This section considers how connections are restored after failure
Lead author:  CG
Author:  Artur
Due date:  13 May

10.    Monitoring
This section considers how connection monitoring can be implemented
Lead author:  CG
Author:  AL/JB/JMe (to be confirmed)
Due date:  13 May

11.    Reservation
This section described how a connection can be reserved and the 
associate parameters.
Lead author:   GR
Author:  JA, JV
Due date:  13 May
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