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• @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 TSC)

• @Halil Cakal (Ericsson EST)

• @Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)

• @Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)

• @Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)

• @Carsten Höseler(TU-Dortmund)

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• Co-located with ONAP 2023-01-25 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

• Happy Chinese New year!
  
  

• Calendar:

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

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

  • 09:00 PST | 12:00 EST | 17:00 UTC | 17:00 GMT | 18:00 CET | 22:30 IST | 01:00 (+1d) CST

• 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

• https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)

  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):

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  • This week's TOC (Tomorrow):

    • No update.

• As per last week. Development for each of the topics below continue ... 

  • Release H Planning continues:

    • (R1) Service Exposure & Management

      • CAPIF Aligned Service Registry

      • Secured/Sandbox execution environment

      • Controlled access & exposure of service to/from rApps

    • (R1) Data Management & Exposure

      • 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

        • 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.

• Looking at how to collaborate with OAI

  • Ref RSAC below.

• Looking at OAM Specs from O-RAN Alliance & 3GPP REL 18

• Working on updating stndDefined VES messages with 3GPP REL-18

• No Update

• X-Testing with other OSC projects

  • e.g. Windriver would like to contribute for O2-IMS

• Request from last week's TOC to define an OSC SMO 'package'

  • e.g should include cloud orchestration & DMS etc.

    • (Aside Discussion ... will be interesting to see relation with Nephio ... )

• Ref: 2024 RSAC Meetings

• Discussion about collaboration between OAI & OSC

  • Focus on Integration Collaboration

    • ORAN-SC DU inter-working with OAI CU?

• Some mention of the need to make progress creating consolidated SMO - based on SMO Disaggregation work

  • @N.K. Shankaranarayanan ... Discussion about just how "pre-spec" we in opensource can/should be ....

• Maybe at RSAC in 2 weeks we could have some discussion about ONAP REQ subcom & O-RAN related usecases/requirements in ONAP etc?

  • @Timo Perala (& @N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• No update this week

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan: Follow on from previous weeks: Lots of discussion at ONAP TSC

  • No convergence yet, but lots of interest. Ref TSC Minutes: https://wiki.onap.org/display/Meetings/2023+TSC+MEETING+MINUTES 

    • Will aim for cross-discussions at RSAC / ONAP-ReqSubCom level.

• Long discussion this week!

• Went over time this week - No update.

Meeting ends