NMRG 53rd meeting Interim meeting, San Jose, CA, USA Our group will hold a multi-day interim meeting on 13-14 June 2019: Session 1: 2019-06-13 / 09:30 to 17:30 PDT Session 2: 2019-06-14 / 09:30 to 13:30 PDT * Meeting Location: Nokia office 5390 Hellyer Avenue, San Jose, 95138, CA, USA * Agenda: The meeting will focus on Intent Based Networking (IBN) and on making progress on the current work items, tentatively covering: - Concepts definition and terminology - Architecture: requirements, principles, properties, functions/services, enablers, theory of operations, interworking/integration with other architectures/frameworks, human-network interface, intents definitions, formats and models... - Use cases: e.g. data centers and interconnection, 5G "verticals", other use cases to be proposed/discussed... including common parts ("template") such as actors, examples of intents, learnings, evaluation... - Problem statement, research challenges and goals - Miscellaneous: evaluation, implementation, proof of concept, standards path * Meeting preparation and operation: - Call for contribution: presentations on one or multiple of the above topics, or related, are welcome to support and drive the discussion. please inform me if you intend (pun) to present stuff. - Background materials: if you'd like to share background material useful for the discussion, please inform me, I will put the materials on the meeting page. - Switch between exploration and exploitation type of sessions to do both brainstorm/technical discussion and editing on documents. - Suggestion on topics, work methods, etc. are welcome. * Remote participation: Remote participation is not planned for this meeting.