Common Operations and Management on network Slices (COMS) Meeting Minutes COMS BoF @ IETF-101, London 09.30 - 12.00, Thursday March 22nd, 2018 Chairs: - Gonzalo Camarillo - Adrian Farrel Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/agenda/coms Jabber room: coms@jabber.ietf.org Mailing List: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netslices Meeting materials: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/101/ Minutes Takers: Ignacio and Christian 1. Administrivia - chairs [2 mins : 2/150] Slides: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/ slides-101-coms-chairs-opening-slides-00 2. Objectives of the BoF - ADs [3 mins : 5/150] - Ignas Bagdonas (OPS&MAN AD): on the purposes of this BoF - Intro comments from Jeff Tantsura (IAB) 3. Overview of Questions to be Answered - chairs [5 mins : 10/150] Refresher on the questions the ADs want answered. See item 8 on the agenda. 4. Setting the Scene - Jari Arkko [20 mins : 30/150] Reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-arkko-arch-virtualization/ Slides: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/ slides-101-coms-chairs-opening-slides-00 * We have already a lot of tools * Do we need something new? * Stark contrast: device config vs. orchestration * Find concrete missing things (after considering _all the technology_) * _General over specific_ (not just 5G) Q&A Reza Rokui (Nokia): NS is end-to-end. It is critical to address it: RAN, core and application. Gonzalo: Let's hold this question until the Q&A Reza: Yes, but we need clarity (terminology matters). What do we want to produce? Pat Thaler (Broadcom): Consider collaborating with DETNET Hannu Flink (Nokia): On the 5G scope Jari: Should be generic but allowing tools for customization (e.g., specific for 5G) Hannu: How do you relate top-down and bottom up? Jari: Yeah, you need to sum them up, e.g. top-down (e.g., models) together with bottom-up (e.g. tools) Gonzalo: Both approaches to be discussed as part of item 8 "The Questions" discussion in the agenda. 5. Why are we trying to provide NS solutions [30 mins : 60/150] a. Motivation for Management of Network Slicing and IETF work from Operator's View Point - Shunsuke Homma (NTT) [10 mins] Slides: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/ slides-101-coms-motivation-for-management-of-network-slicing- and-ietf-work-from-operators-view-point-shunsuke-homma-01 - Proposal for COMS work scope (slide #9) and COMS Deliverables: (i) Information/data modeling, (ii) Interfaces for Interworking and Stitching, (iii) Clarification of data plane functionalities and how to configure them b. Motivation for Management of Network Slicing and IETF COMS work from Operator's View Point - Luis M. Contreras (Telefonica) [10 mins] Slides: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/ slides-101-coms-motivation-for-management-of-network-slicing- and-ietf-coms-work-from-operators-view-point-luis-m-contreras-00 - Highlights the multi-domain problem (interconnections with other providers and among affiliates) fo provide services outside the footprint of a primary provider - Challenges faced: - Strict SLAs - High customization - Traffic segregation (physical/overlay/slicing?) - Call for new interconnection model --> How do you communicate among different service providers? --- Standard procedures required to minimize integration costs of distinct administrative domains) Reference: draft-qiang-coms-use-cases Supporting references: draft-geng-coms-architecture draft-homma-coms-slice-gateway draft-defoy-coms-subnet-interconnection-03, c. Q&A [10 mins] Reza Rokui (Nokia): RAN and core is missing (referring to the slides in the previous presentation) Parviz Yegani (Huawei): A bigger picture is missing, connection between administrative domains is much more complex tham just connectivity at multi-domain (cites related work at MEF LSO). Adian (chair): Are you asking a question? Parviz Yegani: I want to expand this view on and end-to-end prespective. E.g., information model is missing. Can IETF help with it (i.e., unifying information models) beyond data models (e.g.good pieces of work like L2SM, L3SM)? Gonzalo (chair): This is a larger discussion, let's hold it for the Q&A later 6. What are we trying to do? [40 mins: 100/150] a. Problem Statement and Architecture of COMS Liang Geng (China Mobile) [10 mins] Slides: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/ slides-101-coms-problem-statement-and-architecture-of-coms- liang-geng-00 - Focus on common operation and management with mapping to underlay technology doamins but not data plane b. COMS Architectural Design Enablers & Artefacts (1) : COMS Technology Independent Information Model - Cristina Qiang (Huawei) [10 mins] Slides: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/ slides-101-coms-coms-architectural-design-enablers-artefacts-1- coms-technology-independent-information-model-cristina-qiang-01 c. COMS Architectural Design Enablers & Artefacts (2) : Network Slice Interconnection - Xavier de Foy (InterDigital) [10 mins] Slides: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/ slides-101-coms-coms-architectural-design-enablers-artefacts- 2-network-slice-interconnection-xavier-de-foy-03 Reference: draft-geng-coms-architecture Supporting references: draft-defoy-coms-subnet-interconnection draft-homma-coms-slice-gateway draft-qiang-coms-netslicing-information-model d. Q&A [10 mins] Reza Rokui (Nokia): The information model should NOT have. ???. Multi-tenancy is missing. Which are the components inside the NSO to resolve a request? Liang: About NSO: we had a big diagram with NSO elements, but it is implementation specific. Check the operational guidance, but we need to discuss it. Reza Rokui (Nokia): What will provide IETF (inside the NSO)? We have to understand what IETF is going to provide. Gonzalo: This is one of the key questions to be discussed/answered ???(Tsinghua university): Do you need to unify the SPI? Liang: I do not think is practical. We previously discussed it. ???: Yes, there is a concept of multi tenancy. About storage and compute for NF: you need to know it so you can allocate resources for it Reza Rokui (Nokia): I agree but the info should not be inside that. ???: That's what I'm trying to say. Myung-ki( ETRI): Is the radio resource managment inside COMS's scope? Cristina Qiang (Huawei): No, because they belong to 3GPP Liang: The NSO may need East-West interface, but the 3GPP is doing it. Some day we'll need a guaranteed transport to isolate ran from COMS. Raphael Rosa (University of Campinas): About multi-domain information model: are you considering addressing different degrees of abstractions views for a domain exposing and requiring resources/capabilities this in the draft? Cristina Qiang: Yes, we want to have a unified view for the NS. But it's hard to stitch them togethter Raphael: Are you considering different degrees of freedom (e.g., hierarchy, recursion)? Liang: You can always play with attributes. Chunsan Xiong (Huawei): If we want to open this interface to third parties, FACPS needs to be openly defined in information model and interface to third party and cross different administritive domains. ???: We listed it out as one of the requirements Chunsan Xiong (Huawei): From my undertanding, we should address also perfomance and security issues. Warren Kumari (Google): I don't really get the house analogy. There's a lot of discussions when building "houses". Can I ask for a quick poll? People who work for vendor /NS slice tennant can raise their hands? (afterwards) People who would be willing to be NS providers can raise their hands? 7. How do the concepts fit together? [15 mins : 115/150] a. Alex Galis (UCL) [10 mins] Slides: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/ slides-101-coms-how-do-the-concepts-fit-together-alex-galis-01 Reference: draft-geng-coms-architecture b. Q&A [5 mins] No questions Ignas Bagdonas (Equinix): How many people would work on operations in this context? (counted less than 10 hands) Provider of a Service or Broker of a Service? (counted 6 identified as service providers??; counted 2 identified as Brokers??) 8. The Questions - chairs [25 mins : 140/150] Move through the questions one-by-one getting clarity on the answers. Jeff Tantsura (Nuage networks): We have to address the definition of a slice if we want to see progress. Also security. What will you measure to verify SLA compliance? Adrian (chair): Who in the room understands what the proponents want to achieve? Approx (well over?) 40 hands up. Do we need to address all the presented issues day 1? Or let's do single domain first and then to the bigger picture? Poll: - Full picture (end-to-end)? 50 - Start with single-domain? (edge-to-edge) 10-12 hands ?? We have overloaded the term domain (and the term service??). Jari Arko (Ericsson): I think we made a lot of progress today. Are we trying to describe globally what the network does? >> too broad in my opinion. IETF is very good doing data models, but we may be not so good at the orchestration level. Warren Kumari (Google): Asks whether answering to the full picture vs single-domain scope question implicitly implies agreeing to the work, both questions should start with "IF we do this", Alex Galis (UCL): you cannot move easily from single (now) to multi- domain (in a 2 years). Part of the multi-domain protocols need to be attacked now. Multi-domain is not orders of magniture more complicated than single domain, as proven by some recent (research) prototyping efforts Reza Rokui (Nokia): The single-multi domain issue depends on who you ask: customer or provider. Note that you have to address the end-to end issue. We need to suport a service Charles Eckel (Cisco Systems): There is work being done in other places, check the gaps that IETF can fill. Adrian (chair): Does anybody in the room have a strong disagreement with the architecure picture? I see no hands up. About interfaces: Did anyone come away from the meeting unclear about the CSI and SDI? Parviz Yegani (Huawei): What do you mean with interface? Adrian: internal: API, external: protocol Jari Arko (Ericsson): I think the architecure is right but not how much information about the network we are specifying Lorand (jabber room): Operation and management of the slice is missing. Young Lee (Huawei): SDI is internal or external? There is some ambiguity in the SDI definition as/if they could be recursive regarding CSI Adrian: Which are the must-have deliverables? Adrian: Relation with other SDOs: we've heard very presentations about that. Does anybody think there is work in IETF that fits COMS' work? I see ??? Adrian: Top-down or bottom up: not enough clarity yet. IETF typically is better at bottom up but should be discussed here. - Who wants top-down? 30 - Who wants bottom-up? 30 - Open source? Fewer than 10 Should we work with other bodies? ?? Which? Shouts from the audience: ETSI, 3GPP, MEF Dave Sinicrope notes that there are very many SDOs working in this area Who thinks the IETF should own the full architectural picture? No hands 9. Wrap up - ADs [10 mins : 150/150] Ignas Bagdonas: Will the energy for work sustain the future? Who is willing to work on that? Who is willing to coordinate with other SDOs? Alex Galis (UCL): Right now there is no need to coordinate with other SDOs, just orchestrate/interoperability. Only IETF can deliver the ??? Should be make compatible to make easy to adopt for the industry. Ignas Bagdonas: unclear if we will create/modify protocols. The aforementioned interoperability may be impractical. The problem scope seems to be finally clear. The main group of authors seems not open enought to global IETF public. At this point of time it seems there is energy on getting work done Alex Galis (UCL): My personal view: if no group of cohesive drafts are put together, the energy will disappear. We should discuss the group scope but there is limited time. We clearly need to move on to make sure it is used. Recall that there are at least 25 years of research in network slicing. Kiran Mahanhagi (Huawei): Do you plan to spread the work on other SDOs? Ignas: ??? Liang (China Mobile): I think there's a pretty good ratio of raised hands taking into account the number people who raise hands in IETF. I think we have a pretty good understanding of the scope and energy. We should take action now (not necesarily forming a WG). Ignas: Way forward: consult with people/customer. This needs to be socialized outside of the IETF. Liang (China Mobile): 6 hands is good taking into account the number of operators in IETF Ignas: the work does not stop if there is not WG, self-organize for a BoF. Try to reach more to the operational communities. Gonazlo: adjourn