2020-02-10 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC SCRUM meeting

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2020-02-10 OAM Meeting notes

Date

10 Feb 2020

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST)

• Martin Skorupski

• Tracy Van Brakle
• John Ng
• Lathishbabu Ganesan
• Eliza Celenti
• Former user (Deleted)
• Sonia Sangari
• Sandeep Shah
• Lorraine A. Welch
• Ojus Parikh
• Former user (Deleted)
• Alex Stancu
• Andrea Buldorini [TIM]
• Some other people joined the call later ... please add yourself ...

Discussion

1. Most recent work has focused on "Amber Maintenance Release" functionality - esp A1 Policy Management Service ("Policy Agent"). See Release A
2. Ongoing efforts to try ensure convergence between OSC's A1 adapter, and ONAP's A1 adapter.
3. Repos:
   1. Plan to move A1 simulator/stub to SIM project - agreed with Alex Stancu. Need to ensure committer rights etc.
   2. Dashboards - need to consolidate NONRTRIC dashboard in existing Portal Repo
4. Dashboards: Currently exists 2 dashboards with some overlapping code/functions. Scope difference is pretty clear though, so both are needed.
   1. non-RT-RIC (holistic view for A1 Policy management operations across all near-RTRICs, Policy instances, Police types, etc)
   2. near-RT-RIC (element management of individual near-RTRICs, stats, xAPP management, etc)
5. Need to examine how to address duplicated code in both functions, and the functional overlap (e.g. view which PolicyTypes are supported by xAPPs, etc)
   1. Meetings scheduled for this week: Lorraine A. Welch Former user (Deleted) John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Patrik Buhr Martin Skorupski Ojus Parikh ...
6. Agreed to cancel next week's meeting due to O-RAN Paris F2F. Week afterward may be cancelled too due to MWC.
7. Discussion about use of JIRA for stats/reports - Not ideal due to different ways of using JIRA - e.g. long running epics for ongoing requirements. Even though its not great it's what we have right now ....
8. SDNR & A1 adaptor
   1. John: Don't agree that A1 adapter should be hard-coded into SDNR persona/profile. Of course at deployment/instantiation time any bundles can be included in teh same instance, but this should not be enforced.
   2. Martin: Current Netconf mediation is quite thin, and most "controller" logic isa actually above SDNC, e.g. in PolicyFramework.
   3. John: Agree - same with A1. Would like to maintain a loose coupling, with A1/O1/O2 coordination outside/above mediation functions, not in them.
   4. ... <CUT>

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Need to continue the discussion on A1/O1/SDNR etc.