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Zoom meeting: 2019-08-21.mp4 audio only

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1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu (AT&T)

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x
   Orange	William Diego	x	Vincent Danno
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar

   *Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  We have a quorum and can vote on activities.  

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
   1. Action/ Farheen Cefalu correct audio recording of previous minutes.
      1. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by Former user (Deleted)  and seconded by William DIEGO  the minutes of the August 14, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
         1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/ Jack Murray CLA status.  Thoralf-2018-08-21 (RICP): new CLA process causes some issues (many committers can't commit to master (even if we can push)). Want to use CLA manager approach, but did not yet find the correct way to add additional CLA managers (current one was on an inter-continental flight yesterday). We try now via existing CLA manager and via email to docucla@linuxfoundation.org .
      
      1. The lfai is turned on and ready for use.
      2. CLA is having issues.
      3. Action/ Thoralf Czichy  open a ticket with LF regarding your issues with CLA instructions.  Or email Trishan de Lanerolle directly.
   2. Action/ Jack Murray will send Farheen Cefalu the link to CLAs that will link to from here. https://lfcla.com
   3. Action/ Farheen Cefalu set up the page for the face to face O-RAN meeting and put the power point slide from  Zbynek  on the schedule.
   4. Action/  Ganesh Shenbagaraman and Jianli Sun decide on a names for Layer 1 and Layer 2.
      1. Alex and Ganesh are good with the two project names.  We had one project called O-DU we have proposals from Radisys and Intel.  It is difficult for one PTL to cover.
         1. O-DU-High (ODUHIGH)
         2. O-DU-Low (ODULOW)
         3. On motion made by to made by Jianli Sun   seconded by Former user (Deleted) to approve  Sachin Srivastava PTL for O-DU Hi  Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) PTL for O-DU Low
            1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
      2. On motion made by Former user (Deleted)  seconded by Ganesh Shenbagaraman to agree on the project keys to be ODUHIGH and ODULOW
         1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
   5. Action/ Farheen Cefalu  add link to other upstream projects such as ONAP on the Release Planning page.
   6. Action/ Brian Freeman will send Architecture link to Jack Murray.
   7. Action/ Former user (Deleted) will discuss with Matti Hiltunen and Tracy Van Brakle regarding the near and non real time RICs about demos for MWC North America.
      1. ORAN Alliance will have demos at MWC North America
      2. Rittwik spoke to Matti about doing a near real time RIC demo.  It will be recorded.  MWC-A we can promise a recorded video for near real time RIC.  Are the demos presented by individual companies or by O-RAN SC?
         1. O-RAN SC
         2. Is this an O-RAN demo or something under AT&T?
            1. O-RAN demo and the contributing companies are AT&T and Nokia.
            2. There is an email from Paul to do a gate 1 check.  huangjinri@chinamobile.com send Rittwik the email.
   8. Action/ TOC voting members please vote through email reflector on any approvals for committers and new repo requests.
      1. RICAPP Matti Hiltunen  this is TS light gigascope.  A streaming library in the mcXapp.  It can be used as a common library for the software stack to use.  
         1. Does it have it's own upstream. yes
         2. Why is it lite?  Streamlined to purchase high volume of data with half a core.  Lite weight in resource consumption.
         3. Initial committers are listed in the email sent by Matti Hiltunen about 20 hours ago.  
         4. On motion made by Matti Hiltunen  seconded by Former user (Deleted) approve the request to create a gs-lite repo.
            1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
         5. OTF - open testing framework allows orchestration on the framework.  Design test flows and test cases.  To host the related code and configurations we would like to request it/off.  Three committers have been involved with the OTF.  OTF is inside AT&T and is moving forward to become open.  Lusheng is the PTL for test.  In Alliance there is a test integration group.  They will be responsible for the end to end test.  Some partners are planning to establish and open test and integration center. 
            1. David Kinsey spoke to focus groups.  WG4 has a test spec graph available.  We are looking into how to perform a test exercise between the two test groups.
            2. David - ONAP wiki framework?  OTF integration with ONAP did not go forward.  This will be OTF as a design entity.  We are proposing to bring it in stand alone.  If ONAP wants to adopt they will upstream to us.
               1. On motion made by Former user (Deleted)  seconded by Former user (Deleted) to create a repo for if/otf and the following committers.
                  1. Eliza Celenti 
                  2. Qun Luo
                  3. Rohan Patel
                     1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
   2. Release planning link.
      1. Three months left for the release schedule.
7. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
   1. Non real time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
      1. No issues.  Can we replace RICNRT with NONRTRIC.
         1. Action/ Farheen Cefalu update the navigation bar and the TOC page.
   2. RIC Applications - Matti Hiltunen
   3. RIC Platform - Thoralf Czichy
   4. O-RAN Centralized Unit Former user (Deleted)
   5. O-RAN Distributed Unit (TBD)
   6. O-RAN Radio Unit (TBD)
   7. Operations and Maintenance - Martin Skorupski
   8. Simulations - Alex Stancu
   9. Infrastructure - Xiao
   10. DOC - Weichen Ni

8. Test & Integration Planning - Lusheng

   1. We will tap have a proposal for tapping into a US NSF funded project (PAWR) for Advanced networking and cellular networking infrastructure.  We will want to allow access to hardware that the community can share and test.  We will further pursue.  AT&T can provide virtual resources for supporting this project.  Call to action to any other companies to get involved. 
      1. Was the meeting recorded? 
         1. yes, haven't have a chance to update the wiki.  Action/ Former user (Deleted) post the recorded.
      2. Is it a regular meeting?
         1. Yes, same bridge after this meeting.
   2. OTF discussion of how it can be used to test O-RAN SC development to use for demos.  The OTF team will be making a presentation in the next hour regarding OTF.Report Out of Sub-Committees
9. Requirements Software Architecture Committee - Rittwik
   1. We started Release B planning.  Bring items to the RSAC meeting on Thursday.
   2. We are altering between Tuesday and Thursday.
   3. Once a week rucurring meetings.  It is Tuesday one week and Thursday the alternate week.

10. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items

    1. O-RAN October f2f meeting update (Jinri Huang)
       1. Action/ Farheen Cefalu  take a look at email from yesterday to main@list regarding the Events page. Encouraged to register.
    2. LFN Developer Days (Jinri Huang)
       1. ONAP developer day.  Jinri will talk at this event.  He will talk about software community, O-RAN Alliance.  Jinri will post the speech time tomorrow.  It will be next week.  If anyone wants anything included in the speech reach out to Jinri.
11. Any Other Business (AOB)
12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
    1. Votes
       1. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by Former user (Deleted)  and seconded by William DIEGO  the minutes of the August 14, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
          1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
       2. On motion made by to made by Jianli Sun   seconded by Former user (Deleted) to approve  Sachin Srivastava PTL for O-DU High  Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) PTL for O-DU Low
          1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
       3. On motion made by Former user (Deleted)  seconded by Ganesh Shenbagaraman to agree on the project keys to be ODUHIGH and ODULOW
          1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
       4. On motion made by Matti Hiltunen  seconded by Former user (Deleted) approve the request to create a gs-lite repo.
          1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
       5. On motion made by Former user (Deleted)  seconded by Former user (Deleted) to create a repo for if/otf and the following committers.
          1. Eliza Celenti 
          2. Qun Luo
          3. Rohan Patel
             1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
    2. Actions
       1. Action/ Farheen Cefalu correct audio recording of previous minutes.
       2. Action/ Thoralf Czichy  open a ticket with LF regarding your issues with CLA instructions.  Or email Trishan de Lanerolle directly.
       3. Action/ Farheen Cefalu  add link to other upstream projects such as ONAP on the Release Planning page.
       4. Action/ Brian Freeman will send Architecture link to Jack Murray.
       5. Action/ Farheen Cefalu update the navigation bar and the TOC page.
       6. Action/ Former user (Deleted) post the recorded test and integration team meetings on the wiki.
       7. Action/ Farheen Cefalu  take a look at email from yesterday to main@list regarding the Events page. Encouraged to register.