Meeting Notes, 2021 06 10

DENT Roadmap and Feature Working Group

Date --- 2021 June 10 Zoom meeting --- https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-yvrD4rHtNIpPTosVOj571ECS_lrf8j

Attendees

• Jon Polom (Department of Defense; research engineer)
• Andrew Dunn (Department of Defense; research engineer)
• Robert Marko (Sartura; kernel devel)
• Luka Perkov (Sartura; principal)
• Jakov Petrina (Sartura; build system)
• Victor Tkachenko (NAG; lead engineer/product manager)
• Kishore Atreya (Marvell PLM)
• Taras Chornyi (PL Vision; switchdev developer)
• Steve Noble (amazon; DENT TSC lead)
• Sandeep Nagaraja (amazon; lead engineer)
• Michael Lane (amazon; principle TPM)
• Trishan de Lanerolle (Linux Foundation;TPM/Community lead for DENT)
• Celement Chang (Delta; BSP developer)
• Mingxi Kao (Alpha Networks)
• Richard Herwig (Whole Foods; bare metal switching)
• Lawrence Liao (Delta)
• Manodipto Ghose (Testing Working Group)
• Mike Ward (Accton)
• Moti Nisim
• Mickey Rachamim
• Robert Perry

Agenda

• Review feature board
  • 802.1x discussion
    • Moved to C release
    • Need to continue discusing points first enumerated in issue by Moti
  • RADIUS/TACACS+ feature refinement
  • NAT64, 66 and PT
  • Keyed IPv6 tunnel?
• Feature background stories and research are critical to defining how features are implemented
  • Illustrate the concept
  • "User stories"
  • Needs a defined new feature process (in charter)
• Discuss release cadence
  • How do we enable more frequent "bug fix" releases?

Actions

• Delta to provide POE controller software specification
• Amazon to supply PoE daemon requirements (Steve Noble)
• Determine if 802.1x driver support is feasible for B release
• Need to develop specification for 802.1x driver portion