[Ofa_boardplus] Draft Mission Statement

[Eddie Wai]

Hi board,

Although I understand the use of the broader term "Application Direct Network
I/O enabled networks", but it seems to be invading the DPDK territory.

Also, is creating documentation to facilitate the adoption of new
technologies/features not something OFA considers as an initiative for the
future?

Eddie

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Coulter, Susan K <skc at lanl.gov> wrote:

>
>
> Doug’s explanations have clarified why we used certain terms and the
> reasoning behind them.
>
> As far as I’m concerned, the draft statement is very close to something I
> would vote for.
> I am not overly concerned with networks versus fabrics versus
> technologies, etc.
> If we just added a few words and re-arranged for readability all the
> concepts that matter to LANL are in there.
>
> This does not address the specification-writing thing, but that does not
> have to be part of our mission statement.
> If the Board agrees that some kind of standards or specification writing
> is something we need/want to do - for the benefit of the community - so be
> it.
> That could be done in support of the broader mission - as stated below in
> chunks with a few terms added.
>
>
> On Mar 16, 2018, at 8:51 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> “The mission of the OFA is to accelerate the development and
> adoption of
>
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>  vendor neutral / independent - whatever
>
> advanced networks  by
>
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> evangelizing existing and emerging technologies, evolving and supporting
> existing
>
>
>  open source
>
>
> software, and incubating new
>
>
> open source
>
>  software for the benefit of the developers and
>
> consumers of such networks.
>
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>
>
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> LANL / USRC / HPC-DES
> Network Lead
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