OFA Board Meeting June 17, 2021 10am Pacific time 1. Roll Call: Board Members: At-Large / Harold Cook HPE / John Byrne - Present Huawei / Daqi Ren IBM / Bernard Metzler - Present Intel / Divya Kolar - Present (delegated to Phil Cayton) LLNL / Matt Leininger - Present Mellanox / Gilad Shainer Oak Ridge / Chris Vimmer Sandia / Mike Aguilar - Present 5 present of 9. Quorum achieved. Others: Jim Ryan - Present Paul Grun - Present IBM/Red Hat / Doug Ledford - Present Intel / Tatyana Nikolova Intel / Phil Cayton - Present Intel/Richelle Ahlvers - Present 1. Opens, Agenda Bashing * Richelle Ahlvers presented information on a proposed joint SC21= booth. * A motion was made to approve a large booth for SC21 by Michael Agui= lar (Sandia) and seconded by Phil Cayton (Intel) * Discussion * This is a new budget item - currently no line item. * Will need to come up with collateral and person the booth. * The vote 5 Yes. 0 No. 0 Abstain. 1. Elections for Treasurer and Vice Chair * Nominees for Vice Chair - Phil Cayton, Intel * The vote 5 Yes. 0 No. 0 Abstain. * Nominees for Treasurer - John Byrne, HPE * The vote 5 Yes. 0 No. 0 Abstain. 1. Vote on proposal to create a new TAC * IBM/Red Hat moves that the OFA Board approve the Technical Advisory C= ouncil Charter and authorize the creation of same. The motion was Redhat/I= BM (Bernard Metzler) seconded by HPE (John Byrne). * The vote was 5 Yes. 0 No. 0 Abstain. * The TAC is an OFA sponsored council that researches and identifies st= rategic technology initiatives for the Alliance. TAC members evaluate and c= omment on major industry developments and news of interest, filtering it th= rough the lens of their expertise and experience. The OFA is an ideal organ= ization to host and provide support to this activity due to its open and ve= ndor-neutral nature. The TAC will make reports to the OFA Board on its acti= vities; the TAC will utilize the OFA's Marketing Working Group to distribut= e TAC findings with the consent of the Marketing Working Group Chair(s). Th= e TAC is not subject to Working Group rules. Membership is open to senior = technologists from across the industry. 1. Approve Board minutes from May 20, 2021 * The board lost quorum partially into the call. Approval of the board= minutes from May 20, 2021 will be held at the next board meeting. 1. Vote on trilateral agreement with DMTF/SNIA/OFA * IBM/Red Hat moves that the OFA Board approve the DMTF/SNIA/OFA Tr= ilateral Work Register. and authorize the creation of same. * The board lost quorum partially into the call so cannot vote on= it at this meeting. IBM/Red Hat proposes a vote-by-email on this agreemen= t. * Alliance Goals and Scope * The Open Fabrics Alliance has launched an effort to design a= nd develop an open Fabric Management framework (OFMF) consisting of common = APIs and methods to deliver security, provide route management, and maintai= n optimized performance. The new Fabric Management framework will utilize = DMTF Redfish and SNIA Swordfish. The goals of OFMF are to * Extend fabrics management for existing and future fabrics te= chnologies. * Add value-add fabric-agnostic capabilities such as workload-= management, performance load-balancing, reliability-enhancements, and orche= stration. * The Redfish Forum wants to extend the fabric model and other= fabrics and would value the fabric management expertise from the Open Fabr= ics Alliance. * The goal of the alliance is to release a Redfish model/schem= a update which includes model extension for managing a variety of fabrics a= s well as any Swordfish model/schema updates to support storage fabric mana= gement workload and resource orchestration use-cases. * Limitations * OFA, DMTF, and SNIA have differing policies for both how con= tributions are made, and governance of any outputs of the work. The collab= oration must respect those policies. * Each organization's contributions are necessarily limited by= the availability of volunteer resources. * OFA will not produce delegated standards that conflict or di= verge from existing or proposed DMTF or SNIA standards where possible. * Alliance Organization Assets * The alliance will reference the DMTF Redfish and SNIA Swordf= ish specifications and ecosystems, including draft and work-in-progress con= tent. In addition, the alliance will leverage and extend DMTF and SNIA ope= n-source tools, as needed, to develop the Open Fabrics Management Framework= , proof-of-concept(s), and demonstration(s). 1. Call 30 day bylaws review window to a close and determine next steps * Discussion * Some comments have been received - a revision will be required * IBM/Red Hat proposes opening a 30-day ByLaws review to begin on= ce a ByLaws review email has been sent to all members