March 17-23, 2018 the 101st IETF meeting took place in London. IETF is one of the key standards development organizations (SDOs) where 5G-TRANSFORMER is actively contributing.
During this meeting, different contributions were made from 5G-TRANSFORMER partners:
- “Network Virtualization Research Challenges” (draft-irtf-nfvrg-gaps-network-virtualization). This document, adopted by the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) research group, identifies and describes open research challenges for network virtualization. One of the documented challenges is precisely multi-domain orchestration. The Research Group Last Call issued by the NFVRG resulted in some final reviews that have been addressed by the authors. Now the document is waiting for final publication as Re quest For Comments (RFC) to the IETF. The draft is available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-nfvrg-gaps-network-virtualization/ and the slides at https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/slides-101-nfvrg-01-1-draft-irtf-nfvrg-gaps-network-virtualization-00
- “Multi-domain Network Virtualization” (draft-bernardos-
nfvrg-multidomain), a document which was initiated by the 5G-PPP phase-1 project 5GEx now has authors also from 5G-TRANSFORMER, as we are leveraging some of the multi-domain concepts from the work done by 5GEx. 5G-TRANSFORMER aims at evolving these concepts and making this document progress further. The document was presented at the NFVRG session. The document is available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-nfvrg-multidomain/, and the slides presented
at https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/slides-101-nfvrg-01-2-draft-bernardos-nfvrg-multidomain-00 - The network slicing effort where Luis Contreras is actively participating had a new non-WG forming BoF on “Common operation an management of network slicing” (COMS). The material presented by Luis is available at 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
- “Proxy Mobile IPv6 extensions for Distributed Mobility Management” (draft-bernardos-dmm-pmipv6-dlif-01), a document which describes mobility approaches that can be applied to support also mobility of virtualization resources. This document was presented at the DMM WG session and was decided to be adopted as WG (pending confirmation on the mailing list). Slides are available here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/slides-101-dmm-proxy-mobile-ipv6-extensions-for-dmm-00
- “IPv6-based discovery and association of Virtualization Infrastructure
Manager (VIM) and Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO)” (draft-bernardos-nfvrg-vim-discovery), a document which describes mechanisms allowing dynamic discovery of virtualization resources and orchestrators in IPv6-based networks, was presented at the NFVRG session. Slides are available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/slides-101-nfvrg-01-3-draft-bernardos-nfvrg-vim-discovery-00 - “Service Function discovery in fog environments” (draft-bernardos-sfc-discovery-00), discussing the need for service function discovery mechanisms and propose some solutions for sfc-aware nodes to discover available service functions in fog environments. The document was presented at the SFC WG session. Slides can be found here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/slides-101-sfc-service-function-discovery-in-fog-environments-00
- “A YANG Data Model for Microwave Topology” (draft-ye-ccamp-mw-topo-yang-00) and “A framework for Management and Control of microwave and millimeter wave interface parameters“ (draft-ietf-ccamp-microwave-framework). The first document was presented at the CCAMP WG session, and slides are available at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/slides-101-ccamp-sessa-3-a-yang-data-model-for-microwave-topology-01