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Date

29 Jun 2022

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• James Li (CMCC & INT)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (STL & ONAP)
• Timo Perala (Nokia & ONAP)
• Bhanu Chandra K (Aarna) 
• Halil Cakal (Ericsson EST)
• Kamel Idir (Ericsson)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• michal.cmarada@gmail.com (Pantheon)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
• Former user (Deleted) (Fujitsu) 
• 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 2022-06-29 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

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 last week

• https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Note Time change for TOC calls from May 5th onward
    • +1 day & 1hr. Thursdays  (Thursday 9AM EST)
    • Timeslot is currently used by RSAC/SMO (RSAC/SMO will take the timeslot originally used for TOC)
    • Keep watching calendar as updates are ongoing 
      
      • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar
  • News from TOC call last weeks:
    • F Release vote due at TOC call tomorrow
    • G Release planning ramping up
    • Discussion continue in RSAC about new work on AI-ML platform
    • Request for RSAC to report more on compliance/alignment with O-RAN specs & MVP outputs. More discussion needed about how.
    • New xApp Frame/sdk repos approved to support xApps written in Rust language.
    • LF License scan completed - no major issue foreseen

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• Wrap up F release
  • Artifact Release & Branching completed
    
    • Vote expected at tomorrow TOC call
  • Still some documentation etc ongoing
  • Still trying to get some rApp use cases running in it/dep deployment
• Upstreaming service exposure prototyping
• https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/nonrtric/+/8531 + ongoing in G release
• G release planning
  • Will give more update in coming weeks & discuss in RSAC calls.
  • Continue Service Exposure work (R1-SEF)
  • Continue Data Management & Exposure work (R1-DME)
  • Progress rApp manager especially
    • rApp registration & discover & authorization
    • rApp LCM
    • Overlapping with service & data exposure/consumption
    • Will further identify overlap & extensions to ONAP "Automation Composition Manager (ACM)"
  • Continue A1 work
  • Work on overlapping topics related to proposed AI/ML work (see TOC/RSAC discussions)
• Delivering call-out capability in A1-Simualtor to support policy-specific or app-spec behavior
  • Will be use in ONAP - A1-Sim embedded in ONAP RANSim - used 5G SON Use case  NONRTRIC-754 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Alex Stancuon vacation
  • Team continuing with getting repo sorted for ns3-based simulator

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Martin Skorupski was at Plugfest / OTIC event last week:
  • https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PLUG/pages/2396684325/RESTRICTED+EDITING+O-RAN+Global+PlugFest+Spring+2022+-+CONF
  • https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PLUG/pages/2438397962/O-RAN+Global+PlugFest+Spring+2022+-+Hosted+by+AT+T+and+DISH
  • Difficult to gather feedback from readout sessions
  • Format may need to change a little for future events.
• Finishing F Release
  • Still some integration use cases need a bit more work
    • Access control / authentication platform support still a bit tricky - may need to move to G.
      • John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Lots of common functionality in NONRTRIC - Lets work on this together in G release.
• G release
  • Next ODL version
    • Maybe move to java 17 in G release

O-DU (Hariom Gupta Vidhu)

• No Update

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• James Li was out of office last week - No update.

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

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings
• Calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar
• Samsung proposal for new project & work in current projects around ML/AI functions in OSC.
  
  • Discussions will continue in coming RSAC calls.
• G release planning to ramp up (see TOC above)
• Request from TOC for feedback on alignment with O-RAN spec / MVP output (see TOC above)

ONAP Use Cases Update  (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• RANSIM for SON usecase
  
  • https://jira.onap.org/browse/INT-2127
  • A1-Sim extension (see nonrtric section above)  NONRTRIC-754 - Getting issue details... STATUS
  • Outstanding question of how websocket is used internally ....
    
    • https://jira.onap.org/secure/attachment/18086/ONAP_OOF_SON_R11_ArchitectureReview_20220606.pptx
    • Plan to continue with using websocket,
    • Netconf would be good for some cases, however difficult to use netopeer (c++). Juniper? (java-based). 
      • Want to align with whatever is used in OSC. Can Alex Stancu suggest?
      • Might be helpful to wrap netopeer in a docker image, then use it as it is rather than embed it?

Q/A

• Kevin Tang One of the VM in Winlab is not working (used from ONAP Slicing use case).
  • Martin Skorupski Please send the name/details - will check ASAP. Some servers seem to have an issue - will check.

LFN DTF - June 2022 (Timo Perala )

• Lots of interesting talks - Attendance a little low - lots of good cross-community interations.

  • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65537697
  • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/2022+LFN+Developer+Event+Topics+June
  • Some recordings & slides already available