[Starlingx-discuss] [Packet SIG] Meeting Notes 6/25 and 7/9

[Jolliffe, Ian]

Meeting #5 - 1700UTC - Tue - 2019-07-09

Recap from last meeting

Automotive use case:
	Diagrams - Ian to send prior to meeting #6
	Geoverse - Scott identified and has a meeting with them to discuss their "Radio Test Kitchen"
	Cosmos - City test bed - Akraino Edge part of that project 
	Opportunity for an Akraino Blueprint?
	Part of a PAWR - National Science foundation project
	Also happening in Las Vegas - opportunities in two other cities.
	More network centric focus for testing 

Workshops - presentation Shanghai / Kubecon
	John asked and Ian confirmed we are planning a STX hands on workshop in Shanghia
	John will add a placeholder for the resources so they don't get double booked.

Greg - update on progress - wasn't on the call - update in at the next meeting in 2 weeks
	John asked why is Squid being used - use case?


Meeting #4 - 1700UTC - Tue - 2019-06-25

Attendance
	Ian - Wind River / STX TSC
	Emmet - Codethink
	Scott - Packet.com - Packet labs / R&D group / Outreach
	James - Packet.com / Cloud Architecture
	Ed - Packet labs / ARM / Working with Could Native Foundation to help with infra
	Bill - Wind River
	Curtis - STX TSC
	John - Technical outreach for Packet / OpenStack foundation user committee

Automotive use case discussion:
	Pratical approach - 
	Chicken or egg problem
	Develop a proposal to attract interest and define the use case
		OEM data collection and feedback
	Emmet - could take the proposal to automotive players
	John could evangelize the use case
	Pittsburgh automotive test site?
	Argo AI
	Plus a Upper Manhattan location possible / potential
	Virtual environment of use cases proof point could be good and then move to real world environment
		Don't need to gate this on having vehicles?
	Need a first order diagram of what this would look like
		tie to automotive need - 
		Ian to take a first crack at a diagram
	Give a shout out on the community call - about this to attract people to this use case/POC
	Carnegie-Mellon alumni - Uber office 
	Are the devices at the edge/towers?  For the POC
		what sort of device would work?
		reach out to a device manufacturer
	Federated Wireless - keeper of CBRS spectrum - likely has a list of devices
		simulate a car somehow
	Geoverse is another person who works with the spectrum may have end device recommendations
	Scott - will reach out

Greg - update on baremetal STX on packet.com
	ipxe to boot the initial controller
	stx uses the first controller as the pxe boot server for all the other ones 
	have to access the bios in the other servers to get them to pxe boot proplery
	switch to layer 2 networks
	have to have an extra node for nat rules, provide oem api access