NFVRG Meeting Wed March 21 2018 1330-1500
Room Sandringham

Note takers: Linda Dunbar, Pedro Aranda
Jabber scribe: Evangelos Haleplidis

Update on current and proposed drafts ~ 15 min
draft-irtf-nfvrg-gaps-network-virtualization
got good review 
Document is ready
Diego is going to ask to put the document in the RFC queue

draft-bernardos-nfvrg-multidomain
No comments from the audience 

draft-bernardos-nfvrg-vim-discovery
solution enabling network based discovery and advisement of VIM and NFVO
[Linda Dunbar] who do you advise the VIM and NFVO? 
Answer: advise to users, such as Compute/Storage/Network resources to clients
Csrlos: looking for resources, so someone may advertise the resources (s)he might be willing to offer

draft-aranda-nfvrg-recursive-vnf
Diego: we can ask operators with operation experience to review and comment. 
Incorportate experience from the MAMI experiments

Introducing NFV-based experimental facilities ~ 30 min
5GINFIRE (A. Eisenmann, University of Bristol)
Yokov Stein: the use case come to my mind is changing split. 
The ideal of 5G phy 
Yakov: where do you instantiate the NVF? 
Answers: we provide the physical servers to run the NFVs
Tin: from National Research Lab, would like to help. 
Kostas ?? how to achieve the slice? 
Kostas?? How do you achieve the virtulation (isolation)? 
Answer: Manually
University: do you have flexibility on what VPN in use? can you only select the pre-stored NFV? 
L3VPN
Christos: Looks like MEC Do you want to extend it to a MEC model
Answer: yes
Christos: Enhancements for the operational capability
Answer: 


SOFTFIRE (S. Vural, 5GIC - University of Surrey)
brief the Near finished EU project
chair: are you going to publish the result? 
Answer: in couple of months. OpenBATON is already available
Al Morton (ATT): what kind of information will you benchmark? 
 Answer: this is a very important information. Software match with physical.  
Peter: the results are not published yet?
Answer: 2 white paper would publish soon. 
Q: is it over after next Hackthone? 
A: will transfer knowloedge to next projects
Q: IP v6 running / problems you ran into
A: out of scope


NFV in Rich Communication Services (Y. Stein, RAD) ~ 30 min
QoE is subjective measurement, can't be measured
QoS is measurable, but sometimes doesn't mean anything to end users 

University: stronngly disgree you slide on Link Down improving the QoE
Ross: If you take into the account the packets being added or removed, it would get more accurate QoE
Al Morton (ATT): seperate measurement. 
Yokov: we don't know explict equation.