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Will not be able to attend todays meeting
by Cohen, Beth F 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

See you next week -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Link to article about ChatGPT taking people's jobs
by Cohen, Beth F 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

As mentioned on our call this AM. This is a gift link, so it does not require a subscription or login. https://wapo.st/3Chdm3i ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones. By Pranshu Verma <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/pranshu-verma/?itid=ai_top_vermap> and Gerrit De Vynck <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gerrit-de-vynck/?itid=ai_top_devynckg> June 2, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Updated PTG Blog
by Cohen, Beth F 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

Folks - Here is my take on the Blog post. Did some edits and consolidation. Feel free to add to what I did if you wish. https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023-blog Connecting the Pieces - Edge Infrastructures and Landscape The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group met online at the recent Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event to grab the opportunity to dissect the edge computing space even further. During this PTG, we explored activities both in Europe as well as globally. This time the focus was on what connects multiple edges together, both from infrastructure and social perspective. Our session started with a series of presentations, delivered by Andreas Florath (Deutsche Telekom), to introduce the EU Cloud Alliance (European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud) and the current work to build a federation of edge systems in Europe. The EU Commission supports this effort and many other projects, such as Gaia-X and Horizon Europe. These projects typically have a focus on different, but connected areas, such as data, automotive or the cloud-to-edge continuum. The EU Cloud Alliance assists the EU Commission by supporting the creation and deployment of next generation cloud capacities for the public and private sector. Their objective is to specify the requirements for next-generation of secure, low-carbon and interoperable cloud and edge services and infrastructure, based on the three pillars of cloud, compute, networking and storage. The EU Cloud Alliance has an Edge/Cloud Working Group, that organized its activities into task forces. The scope that these groups cover ranges from the cloud and edge landscape in Europe, through cybersecurity up to application and data services. The Alliance executes its mission through activities such as: - Giving recommendations in the form of use cases, technology roadmaps and more - Determining challenges for requirements and standards of cloud services - Keeping a focus on data requirements, especially in how to best host sensitive data, which comes with high security requirements Open source plays a key role in the activities and projects of the EU Commission, which is often reflected in the projects’ requirements. Some even set it as a goal to open source everything. Funding levels also vary based on the the amount of open source components used and produced as part of the projects' artifacts. After the overview of the EU Cloud Alliance, there was a review of the ongoing work defining and building a federation of edge-cloud continuum in Europe. By 2030, 10000 climate-neutral, highly-secure edge nodes are planned to be deployed throughout Europe. The scope of the federation covers the end-to-end infrastructure. The scale of infrastructure reflects on the edge-cloud continuum, as these nodes need to be connected and managed without any artificial separation within the elements. Federation is used to create the connection and provide access to the components. While these components are not managed by one singe provider but rather many of them, the aim is to have access to them through a single platform. If the implementation is successful, the cloud federation layer will hide the underlying infrastructure providers. It will also provide a consistent platform, as well as a consistent experience for all application providers and users. While that might seem like a worthy goal, can one platform rule them all? There are a few obstacles to overcome first: - SD-WAN limitations: if the number of nodes grows too big, it will prompt the need for a hierarchical system. - The EU-wide scope also posts a complication as there are multiple infrastructure and application providers that may or may not span across country borders. The layers of the stack consist of the ‘infrastructure provider’ layer, the ‘edge-cloud federation’ layer, the ‘application provider’ layer, and a ‘marketplace’ layer, with the ‘users’ being displayed on top. The layers demonstrate the complexity of the underlying systems, while also showing the intention to make it user friendly. The requirements include of course security, similarly to other edge related discussions, on the top of the list and hardware independence. The biggest challenge that needs to be addressed is how to achieve fault tolerance throughout the system. While in Europe the intent is to build an agnostic solution that uses different open source building blocks. there are other efforts in the open source ecosystem to address federation-related functionality. Ongoing work in the global community, includes the Anuket project, as well as MEF, where the focus is on defining APIs to provide standard access points that can be used to connect the elements. There are also parallels efforts, like grid computing, that was in fashion a bit over a decade ago, or Wireguard, which is a de-facto overlay standard for networking. Other groups are also working on this effort -- somewhat independently at this point, include GSMA, which is proposing a federation API, which is already partially implemented. The GSMA has a strong telecom focus and a private membership, which is not always seen as desireable with the wider Open Source community. Beyond GSMA, the CAMARA project and TMForum are groups that are working on API-slicing proposals. It has been true for a while, but the Edge is a very fragmented and overly complex ecosystem. Just looking at the projects within OpenInfra there are many that can and are used to support Edge architectures and use cases. Some, like OpenStack and StarlingX, are already utilized in edge computing use cases. For instance, OpenStack was utilized for a uCPE use case before the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group was even created. StarlingX is powering large, distributed vRAN deployments around the globe. For containerized edge applications, Kata Containers, which is a container runtime that delivers security and speed in one package through creating a fusion between virtual machines and containers, is a valid choice. It provides increased security, compared to traditional containers, and the ability to use a different kernel than what is running on the host machine, it can be a very appealing solution for the edge space. The Kata Containers community also collaborates with the Confidential Computing group in the CNCF ecosystem, which has been gaining increased community interest recently. One member of the discussion shared a document that documents over 150 open source projects and libraries that are relevant for the edge. How many of these projects are primarily relevant for edge? A consolidation of projects in this space is long overdue. Last, but not least, it has become increasingly clear that today’s systems with their massive scale and distributed nature create a level of complexity that is hard to manage. While simplicity is always a goal, it is not something that can be accomplished for an end-to-end infrastructure, with out much more community will and support than what currently exists. However while systems can remain complex, managing them doesn’t have to be as long as there is a focus on increasing the tools to support automation, then operating and maintaining a distributed edge infrastructure could become a relatively easy task. EDGE COMPUTING GROUP CTA AND REFERENCES + ADD LINKS THROUGHOUT -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Weekly call meeting minutes
by Ildiko Vancsa 18 Apr '23

18 Apr '23

Hi, We had a great call this Monday, please find the highlights of our conversation below. * Scope of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group - As the group and the industry are evolving, it is always good to revisit our scope and activities - Items that came up include: + End-to-end edge and distributed systems challenges and solutions + Working with the ecosystem of open source projects and groups to identify and fill gaps + Defining reference architectures * We elaborated on ecosystem a little further - The landscape and perceptions are constantly changing - Is IoT also edge? - Missing tools + How to improve developer experience?! + Developers don’t always have the tools and resources to test their applications that will be deployed at the edge + Hard to find vendors to provide the tooling * Application challenges - Developers are not very aware of how the network affects their applications, and they don’t always care - Are we still looking for the “killer application” that will drive the infrastructure needs and development? - Users want to have more insights into the network, but don’t always know what to do with the data + We briefly touched on the CAMARA project, which is a project to define APIs that provide access to network capabilities + https://camaraproject.org As a friendly reminder, next week we will continue our conversation about Private Mobility! Our next call is on __Monday (April 24) at 6am PST / 1300 UTC__. For dial-in details and more information about the meeting, please check out our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Private Mobility presentation and discussion on April 10
by Ildiko Vancsa 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Hi, I’m reaching out to you to draw your attention to our upcoming weekly meeting. We will be having a session about Private Mobility, presented by David Paterson, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Dell. He will introduce the topic and will also talk about Dell’s activities in the area. As usual, the meeting will be an interactive session where the attendees will dive deeper into the topic after the presentation. The session will happen __on Monday (April 10) at 6am PST / 1300 UTC__. For information about the meeting and dial-in details please check out our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings See you on Monday (April 10)! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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OpenInfra PTG edge session recording
by Ildiko Vancsa 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Hi All, Thank you all who were able to join the edge session at the OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering event today. If you missed the session or would like to refresh your memories on the conversations, you can access the session recording here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Virtual_PTG_Recording.… We also took some notes on the etherpad for this session: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.99b08675546303bd5f2e97db63c32d36 As a reminder, we will have the Private Mobility presentation by David Paterson on next Monday’s (April 03) call. You can find more details about the meeting here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call will as part of the PTG next week (March 27)
by Ildiko Vancsa 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that the virtual OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event is happening next week! __The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group is meeting at the event on Monday (March 27), starting at 6am PST / 1300 UTC, at the time of our usual weekly call.__ We will be using the Bexar room at the PTG. You can find more details on our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings You can find our notes etherpad for the event here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023 See you at the PTG on Monday! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly meeting is running!
by Ildiko Vancsa 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Hi Everyone, We are having our weekly call running. This week’s topic is to prepare for the PTG! If you cannot join the call, but would like to discuss edge topics next Monday, please throw your topics into this thread or on our planning etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023 ! Meeting details are here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Topics for the upcoming online OpenInfra PTG
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Hi All, I’m reaching out to you with a friendly reminder that the next OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering[1] event is scheduled to happen online on March 27-31. As our group agreed, I booked a few hours for the first day of the event, __Monday (March 27) at 1300 UTC - 1600 UTC__. I also created an etherpad to collect topics to discuss: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023 Please add your topic ideas to the above etherpad, or reply to this thread. We will also discuss potential topics during the upcoming weekly calls till the event. If you haven’t done it yet, please register for the event! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó [1] https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Private Mobility session has just started
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Hi All, We are having a presentation today about Private Mobility, followed by a discussion. The session has already started, you can find the dial-in information on our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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