| External Activities of Interest | | - OIF 2023 Interop Demo
- Still discussing TAPI version to use, some vendors are unsure of their ability to support TAPI 2.4
- Lyndon has suggested a session to go over the details of TAPI 2.4
- new features and progress from TAPI 2.1.3
- status of different components
- objective to help participating vendors feel comfortable with implementation of 2.4
- target date 9/29
- plan more strategic discussion than detailed explanation
- some doubts - TAPI 2.4 implementations may differ in what components will be difficult to implement
- people will still need to go through all of the details
- uncertainty will be hard to change
- could be helpful to discuss levels of support, e.g., support ported older features vs. support completely new features
- support schema - is there enough interop value to just support older features? proof point - identifies issues, validates 2.4 development - use OIF interop as an early testing opportunity for feedback, show nothing is broken from 2.1.3 to 2.4
- should be simpler since information is limited, model is unchanged
- promote/explain principles for 2.4, justify advantages
- relationship between 2.4 and OpenConfig capabilities
- pairwise could test extensions as well
- identify options? (1) schema and older features (parity); (2) newer features - list and see level of support (Nigel and Andrea)
- discuss/get agreement on goals for OIF testing
- Test 2.1.4? 2.1.3 with OAM and some optical impairments
- another type of proof point, but delays 2.4 and leads to dead end
- another suggestion is to delay OIF Interop to allow more time for implementation
- would need discussion within OIF
- orchestrator is still a key need, what they will support
- Continue interaction in preparation for OIF discussion - interested: Lyndon, Andrea, Nigel
- ITU SG15 Plenary starts 9/19
- includes several reports, including ONF-related reports on SDN architecture, information modeling and tooling, OIF activities
- reviews liaison statements exchanged in the past
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