Why

WG6 is considering splitting its AAL FEC specification into two portions to be published together in the July 2021 train – a) a formal specification document published through the normal O-RAN FRAND process that covers stage 1 and stage 2 specifications, and b) a stage 3 API document that covers data structures and programming language level details specific to open source implementations such as DPDK that would be published in ORAN OSC repo under a BSD license and referenced from the formal AAL FEC specification. The purpose is to enable easier ingestion of the ORAN FEC gaps identified by the ORAN community in upstream communities such as DPDK.  

What

To facilitate this split, WG6 co-chairs would like to request an OSC repo titled aal_fec/profile to be created for the above purpose. The purpose of this repository would be to store stage 3 specification documents and in the future, header files as well as test artifacts for the AAL FEC profile. Releases from this repository will be aligned with ORAN specification release trains as we intend to publish the stage 3 specification updates conjointly with the main spec.

License

BSD – we would prefer a BSD license to be compatible with the upstream community (DPDK) with which the spec is to be aligned.

 niall.power@intel.com (PTL)