2023-03-08 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

08 Mar 2023

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• James Li (CMTI & OSC INT)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (ONAP)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Kamel Idir (Ericsson)
• Aditya Koranga (Dehli Univ ??)
• May not have captured a full attendee list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2023-03-08 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Calendar:

  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

  • https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-meetings/calendar

  • This Week: 9am PST | 12pm EST | 17:00 UTC | 17:00 GMT | 18:00 CET | 22:30 IST | 01:00 (+1d) CST
    

  • Next Week:  9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 16:00 UTC | 16:00 GMT | 17:00 CET | 18:00 EET | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST (+1d) | 01:00 JST (+1d)

• OSC SMO project calls now move to its own time slot - alternate Thursdays

  • See OSC RSAC Calendar: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RSAC/calendars

  • See also OSC Meetings calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

  • (Note this meeting to open to anyone, including non-ORAN members)

  • We will maintain this slot for ONAP Alignment, and try flag issues/question to/from SMO meetings.

  • See OSC SMO Project meeting notes

• See also OSC AIML Project meeting notes

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call last week

• https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • No major update
  • This week's TOC (Tomorrow):

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• Alot of work in JDK 17 & Springboot 3 updates
• Consolidating PM data exposure in new repo for RAN PM functions
  • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=nonrtric%2Fplt%2Franpm.git;a=summary
• Also, continuing as per last week :
  • (R1) Service Exposure & Management
    • CAPIF Aligned Service Registry
    • Secured/Sandbox execution environment
    • Controlled access & exposure of service to/from rApps

  • (R1) Data Management & Exposure

    • File-based PM data → InfluxDB
    • Previous focus on PM data - but will extend to other use cases too
    • Aim to work with AIML project for Training (and Inference ?) data access

  • rApp Management

    • Built on ONAP “Automation Composition” model & platform to implement rApp use cases
      • Inference Services in rApps
        • Added a 'KServe Participant'
      • rApp-specific extensions needed
    • Packaging, Onboarding & Orchestration of rApps
      • rApp-specific packaging & Onboarding
        • Aim to align with / inform ongoing work in O-RAN (& OSC) about Common App packaging & Onboarding.
      • (rApps with & without µService)
    • Overlap with Service Exposure work to examine role of an rApp Manager to support controlled exposure & LCM of µService and non-µService parts of an rApp

  • Continued A1-Policy & A1-Enrichment-Information evolution (& R1-A1)

    • A1 Spec evolution
    • A1-Policy work in ONAP (continues in ONAP London) - candidate for R1-A1(P)
    • A1-EI management as part of DME - candidate for how to include A1-EI in R1-DME
  • Sample use cases (rApps)
    • Requirements Drivers for rApp/R1 development
    • High degree of cross-project integration activity

  • Testing, Maintenance & Housekeeping

    • Function Test & Integration Test environment,
    • Support integration, deployment & configuration of SMO/Non-RT-RIC related functions & usecases in OSC Integration env.
    • Project coordination, Documentation, Delivery, Reporting, Cross-project alignment, Community demos, O-RAN Standardization support, etc.

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• PM File generation
  
  • John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Alex StancuNo update

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Still updating to latest O1 specs
  • Newest O1 specs now available!

O-DU (Hariom Gupta Vidhu)

• No Update

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• No Update

RSAC/SMO (David Kinsey [AT&T])

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings (3/8/2023)
• Good discussion on ETSI-based & ASD-based NFO/FOCOMs, and how they might map to different O2-DMS/O2-IMS profiles (e.g. ETSI vs K8S in O2)
  • Based on content circulated in https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/discuss/message/693 
  • Lots of discussion needed on this
    • Some parts already available (e.g. OSC-SMO Tacker, ONAP SO, OSC INF O2, etc)

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

• Calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

  • NONRTRIC team  demoed File-Based PM exposure to AIML platform for training/inference using InfluxDB

  • NONRTRIC team: demo ML Inference extension in rAPP LCM functions (ACM). Hopefully aligns with plans for an rApp KServe Adapter

ONAP Use cases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No Update

ONAP / OSC / O-RAN Alliance: Cooperation & Alignment

• Request at today's RSAC for update on areas of overlap / common interest in OSC & ONAP. (Timo Perala, N.K. Shankaranarayanan)
• Unfortunately Timo Perala cannot make this timeslot so a separate meeting needed. Invite will appear on ONAP Discuss Mailing list.
• Drafts of the list of topics:
  • https://wiki.onap.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=162105284 
  • Based on
    • 20230208 MeetingNotes ONAP/OSC/O-RANAlliance:Cooperation&Alignment
    • 20230208 ONAP Meeting Notes
    • https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Potential+ONAP+%3C-%3E+O-RAN+collaboration+use+cases 
    • N.K. Shankaranarayanan has some notes too

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• None this week

Meeting ends