On Nov 12, 2013, at 7:21 AM, Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote:
> OK, here's the draft of the Liaison request (template borrowed from > OpenDaylight) > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To: > ETSI Industry Study Group (ISG) on Network Functions Virtualization > Prodip Sen, Chairman NFV ISG prodip....@verizon.com > Andrew Malis, NFV Liaison Officer <andrew.g.ma...@verizon.com> > > I am a member of the Apache CloudStack Project Management Committee (PMC) > and have been asked to serve as liaison from the Apache CloudStack > community to the ETSI Industry Standard Group on Network Functions > Virtualization. > > Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage > large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable > Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. The platform > has pioneered the use of VNF to provide network services to IAAS tenants. NFV ????? not VNF ? > We are excited to see that NFV is going to realize its potential and look > forward to collaborating to realize this promise expeditiously. > > The community would like to suggest these areas of collaboration: > > 1) ETSI NFV ISG Documents: It would be very helpful to receive pointers > to the various documents being produced by the ETSI NFV ISG, even before > their formal publication, so that your needs can be incorporated into the > Apache CloudStack development effort. > > 2) Sharing ideas and experience: We have many shared goals and a large > community of experienced cloud implementors. We have several opportunities > where someone from ETSI NFV ISG could present to the Apache CloudStack > community, including meetups and online fora , and our CloudStack > Collaboration Summit. We would also be quite pleased to present on Apache > CloudStack to ETSI NFV ISG in any forum you find appropriate. If > appropriate we can participate in working groups such as the MANO WG. > > 3) Open Source: We would love to get members of the ETSI NFV ISG > participate in our community, especially in design ideas, code > contributions and the like. We hope that we can assist in producing > reference implementations and help iterate faster on crucial issues such > as interoperability. > > Of course we welcome other ideas for collaboration with the NFV ISG. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > On 11/11/13 1:02 AM, "Sebastien Goasguen" <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> How about Chiradeep makes the contact and proposal for CloudStack to >> join/be represented ? >> >> Then we can decide who is the representative. Daan could do it and Nguyen >> could be the substitute ? >> >> >> On Nov 9, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I don't mind being involved if needed. >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Chip Childers <chipchild...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 08:58:17AM +0700, Nguyen Anh Tu wrote: >>>>> 2013/11/7 Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> >>>>> >>>>>> While I appreciate the confidence, there are weekly calls to attend. >>>>>> The particularly interesting one (MANO WG) happens on Wednesdays at >>>>>> 6am >>>>>> PST. >>>>>> I've tried but there's very little chance that I can attend these >>>>>> meetings. >>>>>> Anybody in a more agreeable timezone? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Not sure if I have permitted to join, I'm in agreeable timezone (9pm >>>>> at >>>>> local time). It's great and I'm willing to join to liaison team. >>>> >>>> I'd say you are... you're a committer on the project. Perhaps you and >>>> Chiradeep can discuss how to get involved? >> >
