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Mar 1, 2023

• @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)

• @Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)

• @Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)

• @Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)

• @Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)

• @Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)

• @Kamel Idir (Ericsson)

• Sandra Jackson (LF)

• May not have captured a full attendee list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

• Co-located with ONAP 2023-03-01 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

• 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
    
    

• Will need to talk about daylight savings time switchover in coming weeks.

• 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):

    • No major update

  • This week's TOC (Tomorrow):

• New repo for RAN PM functions

  • Will be new home for PM functions previously shown & current work

  • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=nonrtric%2Fplt%2Franpm.git;a=summary

• JDK 17 & Springboot 3 updates

  • Lots of work!

• Issue with Documentation in ONAP:

  • https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/2/IT-25238 

• Issue with Committer rights updates:

  • https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/2/IT-25253

• Also, continuing as per last week :

  • 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

      • 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.

• Looking at VES File Ready event, to be O1 compliant

• PM File generation
  
  

  • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) @Alex Stancu Hope to talk soon about PM file generation & periodic File Ready in Simulator
    
    

    • It may be a couple of weeks before we get to work on this

    • Uncertain how to handle ONAP VES collector still using DMaaP MR ... Will examine this in coming weeks

    • Need to look again at OSC SMO VES Collector ... maybe it can do what we need.

• Still updating to latest O1 specs

• Demonstrating/Communicating how SDNR can be used as an SMO-based O-RU Controller

• No Update

• No Update

• No Update

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

  • Spoke / Demoed File-Based PM exposure to AIML platform for training/inference

    • Ref discussions on this topic at this meeting 4 weeks ago 

    • Will demo filtered File-based PM storage in InfluxDB at a coming meeting - TBC

  • Hope to demo ML Inference service LCM / rApp KServe Adapter in 2 weeks

    • Ref NONRTRIC topic above

• No Update

• No Update.

• None this week

Meeting ends