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

Time & Location:

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Date

08 Aug 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)
• Glauco Gonçalves (UFPA) (UFPA)
• Varadarajan (Samsung)
• Denis G Noonan (Ericsson Software Technology) (Ericsson EST)
• Ambrish Singh (Ericsson EST)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan(Ericsson EST) 
• Vishal Varvate (Capgemini)
• Vamshi Namilikonda (Capgemini)
• 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 2023-08-08 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

  • 7am PDT | 10pm EDT | 14:00 UTC | 15:00 BST | 16:00 CEST | 17:00 EEST | 19:30 IST | 22:00 CST | 23:00 JST

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

  • 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):
    
    • OSFG:
      • OAI & OSC collaboration is making some progress
      • ONF & OSC collaboration seems to be kicking off too
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• Work ongoing - as per last week:
  
  • RAN PM functions - tidying up & re-releasing in maintenance release.
    • Working with AIMLFW project: Joseph Thaliath to use newer versions
  • Making good progress on rApp manager. More in coming weeks
  • 3PP dependency updates & addressing vulnerability
  • OpenAPI-first in A1-PMS & ICS
    • Change from code→openapi→docs to openapi → code-stubs & docs
    • To better align with R1 specs as they mature
    • To improve expressivity of docs etc.
  • Issue with test framework
    • underscore in URI hostnames - introduced by docker-compose (v1)
  • Some changes in A1-Mediator in near-RT-RIC plt in H-Release.
    • Further investigation needed re effects on A1-PMS/ICS & A1-SIM

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• I-Release planning
• No plans for maintenance release
  • RSAC request suggestions for O2-related Sim

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• No plans for Maintenance release
• Still Looking at Netconf "Yang Schema Mount" for O-DU/O-RU relationship (WG5 yang models)
  • making some progress ... more to come
• Request (from RSAC) to make proposal for RAN PM streaming
  • PM Streaming 
  • Hope to discuss more below. (Postponed to next week - ran out of time)

O-DU Vidhu)

• No update this week

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• No update for maintenance release
• Requesting input for PR for H-Release (CEAG)
  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/topic/100219954#962 
• Assembling plans for Pairwise-tests between projects (I-Release)

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti )

• Meeting notes Meeting notes
• No Update this week

RSAC (David Kinsey [AT&T] Rittwik Jana )

• No update this week
• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings 
• Good discussion about I-Release plans, & how to report progress according to new streams/usecases. 
  • More to follow in coming RSAC & TOC calls.
  • Some concern about scope ambition vs resourcing ...
    • Maybe discuss at SMO call tomorrow?

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• Meeting this week:
  • Finishing up maintenance release
  • Analyzing for I-Release: "I" Release 
• Martin Skorupski : OSFG seem interested in AI/ML in MVPC Energy saving use case

SMO end-to-end & SMO in Opensource (N.K. Shankaranarayanan )

• Talk at OpenRAN Summit N.K. Shankaranarayanan 
  • "SMO Architecture and Open Source Implementation"
  • https://engagestandards.ieee.org/ORan-Summit-2023.html
  • Draft Slides: Discussed
    • 
      

ONAP Update (N.K. Shankaranarayanan Seshu Kumar Mudiganti )

• No update this week

ONAP/OSC Usecases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week

PM Data Streaming (Martin Skorupski & All)

• (Out of time this week ... Will continue next week)
  • PM Streaming 

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• Welcome:
  • Hello to Glauco Goncalves (UFPA) & Vamshi Namilikonda (Capgemini)
    
    
• CPS & SDNR: (Vishal Varvate, Martin Skorupski) in ONAP SON Usecase
  
  • Older pages:
    
    • https://wiki.onap.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=81396544
    • https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/SDN-R+%3C-%3E+CPS+Integration 
    • https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/SDN-R+Feature+for+adding+cm-handle
    • https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/CPS-NCMP+-+DMI+-+SDNC+Request+and+Response+Mapping
  • Unclear what happens with proprietary models
  • CPS 'getting' the yang models for functions:
    • SDN-R will have Yang models for all functions it controls (std or proprietary)
    • These can be easily queried by CPS
    • Possibly also a notification on change ... TBC Martin Skorupski 

Meeting ends 67min