Editing Networking/MonthlyCalls/2014-08-11

=OCP networking project monthly call - August 11, 10-11 AM US/Pacific, 1-2 PM Eastern=

= Attendees=
* Carlos Cardenas (UTSA)
* Curt Brune (Cumulus Networks)
* Chuck Hudson (HP)
* CJ Williams (Microsoft)
* David Castneda (Visa)
* Robert Chu (Alphanetworks)
* Chloe Lin (Alphanetworks)
* Jo Chang (Alphanetworks)
* Brad Booth (Microsoft)
* Mike Andrewartha (Microsoft)
* lam (NEC)
* Mike Sem (Visa)
* Rob Sherwood (Big Switch Networks)
* Peter Bruno
* Dan Sparacin (Aurrion)
* Amir Sheffer (Mellanox)
* Bill Burger (Accton)
* Amber Graner (OCP)
* Chris Wong (Avago)
* Marc Randolph (Dell)
* Gerard Ghaibeh (Facebook)
* Dave Maltz (Microsoft)
* Albert Chen (Amphenol)

=New Guidelines for Contribution Credits=
http://www.opencompute.org/community/get-involved/tiered-membership/tiered-membership-contribution-credits

=Review Alpha Spec=
* What version of ONIE is being targeted?
** 2014.08
* What NOS support?
** Rob Sherwood: We have open network linux (http://opennetlinux.org) and are happy to work with you on this.
* Will you be adding fan tray connector part number?
** We will be adding the connector number soon.
* When the planes of the boxes will be available?
** Support for Msata drive for more than 128G flash  (Gerard ghaibeh)

=ONIE testing/certification update=
* Will be contacting vendors this week to resolve 'non-hardware' requirements for ONIE
* Expect to start certification process in the coming weeks

=Review HW perf testing=
* What's the best way to move forward?

=Review optics testing=
* No update

=Review OOB switch=
* No update

=Upcoming OCP Workshops=
* China
* Japan
* France

=Open Discussion=
* Rob Sherwood: ONL is working towards to get it into OCP.
** Amber: work with Omar and Will Mapp
* Robert Chu: Is there an open, standard API for software vendors to port their NOS?
** Aviad: Mellanox has put forward a proposal last year about this and from the UNH workshop, it sounds like other vendors would like to join in on this effort
** CJ: Microsoft would like to work with the community and that in the next few weeks we can add more work
* Mediatek: No standard on HAL?
** Rob Sherwood: Need to have a few key applications and then eventually standardize on things that work.