2024-11-05 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

05 Nov 2024

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (highstreet & OSC SIM)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)
• RAVITEJA KARUMURI (EST) (Ericsson EST)
• Sridhar Rao (LF)
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See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2024-11-05 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting) 

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lores)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Next Meetings:
  • 2024-11-05 (Note change for some people with daylight saving time change in Europe & US (at least))

  • 2024-11-12 Martin OOO

  • 2024-11-19

  • 2024-11-26

  • 2024-12-03 Martin OOO

• Calendar: 

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

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

  • Updated calendar today. Sorry this was not updated before now.
    
  • Daylight saving time switch has completed!

• 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 & OSFG & RSAC calls last week

• F2F:

  • F2F demos went very well

    • Need to retrieve demo recordings & share.
      • Not sure how/where to share.
      • Sridhar Rao is working with LF IT in this. More at TOC? Youtube?
    • Would like to re-run demos - longer less formal versions?
      • Agreed to set time aside over the next few meetings.

• TOC:

  • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • Informal meeting at F2F only
      • Discussed LFN cooperation
      • Discussed code vulnerabilities
    • bimo fransiscus asisi requests all PTLs to complete a page on deployment

      • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IAT/pages/70483970/Deployment+Guideline+Template  

      • Action: Todo!
    • Working on agenda for F2F demos Release "K"
      • Working with O-RAN for schedule
      • 2024-10 O-RAN F2F Montreal 
  • This week's TOC (Thursday):
    • F2F roundup
    • Where to store files, recordings etc? e.g Google drive?
    • logo?

• OSFG: (Martin Skorupski)

  • Lots of discussion on LFN cooperation & community blueprint

    • more later
  • Lots of discussion on CVEs
    • more later
  • SCCL:
    • will not be ready for Nov train.
    • hopefully will be used for next train
    • only for code fragments, i.e. not pictures etc.
• RSAC (Rittwik Jana  Martin Skorupski )
  • Minutes: RSAC Meetings 
  • Discussion about F2F

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• F2F: Demos went well
  • 20241031-OSC-NONRTRIC-rApps+Demo-MontrealF2F2024-JohnKeeney.pdf 
  • But want to rerun longer version here next week
• Still working away on issue from previous weeks
• Updated it/dep charts to address issue where Strimzi Kafka operator can only work in a single namespace
  • Involves copying secrets across namespaces, so not ideal. but works now - A single kafka deployment across onap, nonrtric, oam, smo charts etc.
  • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/it/dep/+/13635 

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• F2F demos went well
  
  • Video: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/13435008/10-o-ran-sim-hybrid-hierachical-oam.mp4?api=v2 
• Working on a new repo for updated simulator implementation - very different from current version.
  • May archive cureent version after next release

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• New yang files released
• More analysis on hybrid/heirachical O-RU deployments.
  • Wg10 / Wg5

AI/ML platform project (subhash )

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• No update this week

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• Meeting notes Meeting notes
• No specific update

• Topology & Inventory: (John Keeney (Ericsson EST) :

  • F2F demo went well
    
    • Slides: 20241030-OSC-SMO-TEIV-Intro+Demo-MontrealF2F2024-JohnKeeney.pdf 
    • Slides: 20241031-OSC-NONRTRIC-rApps+Demo-MontrealF2F2024-JohnKeeney.pdf - with subhash
  • From Last week - Still ongoing
    
    • Need to start working with others in OSC & beyond to help populate TEIV registry with data from their 'sources of truth'
    • Hope to make alot of use of TEIV in demos/rapps in K-Release
    • Refs:
      • doc: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-smo-teiv/en/latest/data-models-guide.html
      • code: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=smo/teiv.git;a=tree;f=teiv/src/main/resources/models

OSC Integration / INT (fransiscus bimo )

• Minutes: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/IAT/Current+Meetings
• No update

Demo/Discussion - Some issues with deployment/use cases  Sridhar Rao

• F2F demos went great
• Issue with ODLUX / SDNR showing faults:
  • Martin Skorupski will investigate. Events showing up in kafka - so that's good. Will follow up.
• Issue with new RANPM code - Datfilecollector
  • Tests are failing:
    • org.oran.datafile.tasks.FileCollectorTest
    • John Keeney (Ericsson EST) will investigate with Sridhar Rao
• Wondering about https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=oam.git;a=tree;f=solution_k8s 
  • Will work with Alex Dehn on this
• Some yang files from OAI not loading/parsing in ODL
  • Doesn't have a version?
  • Needs to be linted. (ref Robert in OAI)
  • Martin Skorupski will try fix up the file.

Other Questions / Comments / AOB:

• subhash: Any Plan for NONRTRIC ICS (Information Coordinator Service) R1 compliant?
  
  • John Keeney (Ericsson EST) No immediate plan - hard to find resources.
  • subhash May be able to help - Very Welcome! Please do
• subhash Can anyone help setting up a Python project1?
  • e.g. enabling / releasing to pip?

Meeting ends 20 min