2024‐09‐09 TST Call Notes

Attendees: Lyndon Ong (not affiliated), Jonathan Sadler (Infinera), Kam Lam, Ronald Zavaleta (Telfonica), Edward Echeverry (Telefonica), Juan Pablo Agredo (Telefonica), Arturo Mayoral (TIP MUST), Kishore Kumar Kowthalam Gajula (Nokia), Brian Johnson (Ciena), Italo Busi (Huawei), Gabriele Galimberti (Infinera), Ramon Casellas (CTTC), Thorsten Heinze (Telefonica)

Notetaker: Lyndon

Meeting Notes:

• Kam Lam - Kam is retiring and asks to be removed from the TST list, Lyndon notes he can continue to participate since this is a public forum
• Arturo made some introductions: some participants are invited from Telefonica that are active from the MUST project, especially Edward, who is part of the group responsible for implementation of the TAPI interface, Juan Pablo is in the global CTO Team in Telefonica involved in the testing, Ronald is in the same organization and working in the same projects
• Other introductions: Jonathan does international standards work at Infinera and also chairs the Networking Interop group at OIF; Kam has recently retired from CICT, is involved in modeling work in ITU-T; Lyndon is recently retired from Ciena CTO group and is helping with administrative support; Kishore is PM at Nokia for products utilizing TAPI, esp. at Nokia; Brian is at Ciena, working with Nigel Davis on TAPI and providing a bridge to involved products at Ciena; Italo is at Huawei optical standards, dealing with management and control aspects here and at OIF, IETF and ITU-T
• Arturo presented slides on TAPI futures, noted need to add/replace TST members due to the retirement of Andrea Mazzini and the health issues of Nigel Davis
• Brian notes that Nigel intends to return when he is in full health, but he can represent in the interim
• Kishore notes that he can provide temporary participation in the TST pending a more permanent representative, he expects more people to join and participate from Nokia
• Jonathan asks also to be added to the TST list, also suggests Gabriele Galimberti as a member
• Arturo also asks to open up a request for volunteers
• Lyndon supports this and notes that the LF agreed to start with the original TST members but we can have a public process for adding members.
• Jonathan notes that we have moved github to the ONMI framework but still have other aspects like mailing lists that are under ONF - Lyndon volunteered to touch base with LF secretariat about moving to the LF platforms for this
• Arturo asks if there should be steering committees for different subprojects - Thorsten is OK with current structure, we can discuss refinements in the future.
• Italo notes each subproject had a leader as part of TST, should discuss if this is the way to continue.
• Arturo suggests opening up the process for the next month and then starting an approval process by voting among the current members - Lyndon will help Arturo with creating an email and circulating it through the TST prior to sending this out to the list
• Jonathan asks about the MOU with TIP and OIF - Arturo agrees this needs to be pursued, perhaps once the TST has been consolidated
• Arturo suggests that there should be roles for editor and code-maintainer as critical roles within TAPI, also someone to maintain the flow of the subproject calls. He suggests exploring this in more detail in future calls.t
• Arturo also suggests discussing the long and mid-term goals and governance of the TAPI project
• Jonathan asks about the Tuesday TAPI calls and Friday IISOMI calls, recently participation has been low possibly due to peoples' vacation times - calls are to continue, TAPI calls could discuss MoUs and future work items and pending reorg of the TST with reopen the project once reorg has been done
• Jonathan notes that OIF plans an Interop event for OFC 2025, OIF has been holding interop events for optical module communications and for OFC plans to broaden this to network level communications and so would be good to incorporate TAPI work as well, we need to make sure we have TAPI support in place for aspects such as optical impairments and path computation.

Action items:

• Arturo and Lyndon to develop an email call for TST volunteers, circulate within TST and send out to the list
  • include link for meeting and ics for the meeting
• Lyndon to touch base with LF on use of LF platform
• once this has been done we can identify TAPI roles
• next call is scheduled for 14 October but is on a Canadian holiday - is 7 October OK with everyone? Jonathan is out. 8 October instead. 7am PT. Lyndon to ask Michelle to move the zoom for this.