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Date

09 Mar 2022

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Alex Stancu(Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• James Li (CMCC & OSC INT)
• ChrisC (AT&T)
• Sebastien Determe (AT&T)
• Abhinav Singh (AT&T)
• David Allabaugh (Fujitsu)
• Evgeny Limonov (DT)
• Kevin Tang (STL)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (STL)
• michal.cmarada@gmail.com (Pantheon)
• Ryan McAllister (USN)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
• Xue Gao (AT&T)
• 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 2022-03-09 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Note daylight Savings Time changeover in coming weeks - see note above.

  • Please follow the calendar

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

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

  • US/Canada: Daylight Savings Starts 13 March.  Eastern Daylight Time is UTC-4

  • Europe: European Summer Time Starts 27 March CEST is UTC+2

  • 2022-03-16: (Follow US Local time - 1 hour earlier for Europeans & countries without DST)

  • 2022-03-23: (Follow US Local time - remains 1 hour earlier for Europeans & countries without DST)

  • 2022-03-30 + (Usual local time in US & Europe, remains 1 hour earlier for countries without DST) 

    • 9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 16:00 UTC | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST | 19:00 EEST | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST (Thurs) | 01:00 JST (Thurs)

• Martin Skorupski unavailable this week.

OSC SMO Meeting Series: Reminder from previous weeks:

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

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call this week

• https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Discussion about WG6 AAL contribution - Approval to use BSD licence - Repo approved
  • OSC SMO project: renaming a repo smo/app → smo/pkg
  • Reminder to attend OTF readout during RSAC call tomorrow
    
    • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1405120&calstart=2022-03-10
    • 10/Mar: Note Postponed 2 weeks:

      • David Kinsey [AT&T] "I got notification late last night that our resource for OTF will not be able to make it. Therefore we will need to move this out two more weeks to the 3/24/2022 9am Eastern. Since outside the USA will not yet have moved to Daylight savings the meeting will appear an hour earlier (2pm CET)."

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• As per last week:
  • Working on e2e PM data - making it available over pre-R1 DME (OSC NONRTRIC) Information Coordination Service)
  • Working on PoC Service Exposure - with a view towards R1
    • Will update more as this matures - still very early - hopefully a demo in coming weeks
  • Working on getting Repos set up - e.g. lots of Jenkins jobs.
    • Thanks to the LF team!

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• + in OAM Martin Skorupski
• Topology creator & visualiser
  • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=oam.git;a=tree;f=code/network-topology-instance-generator
  • Also generates a JSON file for configured
  • Also a tool in OAM to create a docker compose file for this topology 
    • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=oam.git;a=tree;f=code/network-topology-parser

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• As above
• 5G Super Blueprint: Discussions continue
• No other update this week

O-DU (Hariom Gupta Vidhu)

• No update

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

• No update
• Reminder: OTF update at tomorrow's RSAC call
  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1405120&calstart=2022-03-10
  • Walk-through session for OTF at upcoming RSAC meeting next week (March 10)
    
    • Near-RT-RIC platform as usecase ?
    • Session will be recorded etc
    • 10/Mar: Note Postponed 2 weeks:

      • David Kinsey [AT&T] "I got notification late last night that our resource for OTF will not be able to make it. Therefore we will need to move this out two more weeks to the 3/24/2022 9am Eastern. Since outside the USA will not yet have moved to Daylight savings the meeting will appear an hour earlier (2pm CET)."

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• Reminder OTF: (from TOC)
  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1405120&calstart=2022-03-10
  •  Walk-through session for OTF at upcoming RSAC meeting next week (March 10)
    
    • Near-RT-RIC platform as usecase?
    • Session will be recorded etc
    • 10/Mar: Note Postponed 2 weeks:

      • David Kinsey [AT&T] "I got notification late last night that our resource for OTF will not be able to make it. Therefore we will need to move this out two more weeks to the 3/24/2022 9am Eastern. Since outside the USA will not yet have moved to Daylight savings the meeting will appear an hour earlier (2pm CET)."

ONAP Use Cases Update  (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• Struggling with 3GPP copyright / reuse.
  
  • Sent query to Magnus Buhrgard & awaiting follow-up.
• Ransim: Evolving (slowly) towards Netopeer from Honeycomb Vishal Varvate
  
  • Comments welcome from Alex Stancu Martin Skorupski
  • A1 in SON use case & RANSim (K Release +)
    
    • (Also being discussed in Slicing use case K Release +)
    • Next release in ONAP K. - Will start with update in ONAP REQ.

Upcoming LFN Summits (Timo Perala

• LF vDTF event: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/2022+LFN+DTF+Workshop,  March 14^th and 15^th.
  • Four hours both days, European afternoons

  • Topics center around cross-community topics. Discussion on OSC/ONAP SMO is welcome. cross project discussion on orchestration (e.g. EMCO and Magma) also welcome.

    • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/2022+LFN+DTF+Workshop+Topics

• ONEEF https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-and-edge-exec-forum/, which is April 12-14.

SMO Integration Charts (Sebastien Determe)

• Sebastien Determe & ChrisC
• CI/CD tooling implemented in Jenkins - working now (testing internally, & testing on Powder too)
  • Reports from tests now appear during review process
    • e.g. https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/it/dep/+/7864 contains sample tests, & reports from Jenkins jobs can be seen in comments
  • Documentation ongoing (wiki page, videos etc - to come)
    • Automated deployment and testing - using SMO package and ONAP Python SDK
  • Demo next week   & dedicated deep drives etc possible later.
  • Which tests?:
    • O1, Closed Loop use cases, O-RU / O-DU usecases, Apex Policy versions ..... different flavors, ... Lots to see next week!
  • Similar to the ONAP OOM tests ...
• Issues with DMaaP MR now fixed in the scripts now (override value) when SMO pack installed. 

Q/A

•  Evgeny Limonov joins us from DT.
  
  • Interested in R1, Non-RT-RIC, App management etc.
  • Observation initially.
  • Very Welcome!