2023-06-13 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

13 Jun 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)
• Joseph Thaliath (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan(ONAP) 
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST) 
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• Vamshi Namilikonda (Cap Gemini)
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See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2023-06-13 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Meeting 20 June 2023 cancelled (O-RAN F2F OSAKA)
• Meeting 27 June 2023 John Keeney (Ericsson EST) on vacation, but meeting will go ahead.
  

• 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):
    • Presentation from MVPC co-chair Suzy Gu (CMCC)
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):
    • New meeting format with updates from relevant PTL etc
      • week 0: RSAC, Integration I (cross-project testing related), Infrastructure

      • Week 1 : RIC, RICAPP, AIMLFW

      • Week 2: NONRTRIC, SMO, OAM, SIM

      • Week 3: Integration II (lab related), O-DU-HIGH, O-DU-LOW

      • This week: unclear yet

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• Working hard to prepare/do OSC release H & ONAP London - Hopefully this week
• Continuing work on rApp Manager
• Tidying up RAN-PM functions & preparing for 1st release.
• New team members onboarding - Welcome
• Previous weeks:
  
  • 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
  • (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)

• Working on PAN PM file generation in O1 simulator

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Release preparations
  • Documentation (issue with RTD)
  • Release notes
• Supporting OFHM supervision/notifications to OAM controller. (Jira: OAM-326 - Getting issue details... STATUS ) 
  • netconf->ves

O-DU Vidhu)

• No update this week

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• No update this week

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti )

• No update this week
• Meeting notes Meeting notes

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

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings 
• This week: will discuss ONAP/OSC usecase proposal below

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Preparing for H release

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

ONAP/OSC Usecases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• See below

ONAP/OSC Alignment Usecase proposal for ONAP Montreal (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• As discussed in previous weeks
• Preparing slides for O-RAN F2F & ONAP ArchCom
  • O-RAN F2F

    • Wednesday 6/21/23: MVP-C SMO discussions : 13:00-13:45 Osaka Time, 12am Eastern.

    • Wednesday 6/21/23: MVP-C AIML discussions : 13:45-14:30 Osaka Time, 12:45am Eastern

  • Discussed slides/drafts
    • Community seem positive
    • DRAFT slides:
      
  • Update: (14/06/2023)
    • Following presentation at RSAC

      •  using the term "scenario" instead of "use case"

      • red and blue colors for the names of projects/components in the figure

      • separate slide to capture SMO interaction scenario for ES use case

      • RSAC Recording/ minutes will appear here soon
      • Draft Slides:
        

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• None this week

Meeting ends 55min