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Date

Mar 9, 2022

Attendees

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

• @Alex Stancu(Highstreet & OSC SIM)

• @James Li (CMCC & OSC INT)

• @ChrisC (AT&T)

• Sebastien Determe (AT&T)

• @Abhinav Singh (AT&T)

• @David Allabaugh (Fujitsu)

• Evgeny Limonov (DT)

• @Kevin Tang (STL)

• @Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan (STL)

• @michal.cmarada@gmail.com (Pantheon)

• Ryan McAllister (USN)

• @Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)

• @Xue Gao (AT&T)

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

See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2022-03-09 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Note daylight Savings Time changeover in coming weeks - see note above.

  • Please follow the calendar

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

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

  • US/Canada: Daylight Savings Starts 13 March.  Eastern Daylight Time is UTC-4

  • Europe: European Summer Time Starts 27 March CEST is UTC+2

  • 2022-03-16: (Follow US Local time - 1 hour earlier for Europeans & countries without DST)

  • 2022-03-23: (Follow US Local time - remains 1 hour earlier for Europeans & countries without DST)

  • 2022-03-30 + (Usual local time in US & Europe, remains 1 hour earlier for countries without DST) 

    • 9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 16:00 UTC | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST | 19:00 EEST | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST (Thurs) | 01:00 JST (Thurs)

• @Martin Skorupski unavailable this week.

OSC SMO Meeting Series: Reminder from previous weeks:

• OSC SMO calls now move to its own time slot - 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

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call this week

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

  • Discussion about WG6 AAL contribution - Approval to use BSD licence - Repo approved

  • OSC SMO project: renaming a repo smo/app → smo/pkg

  • Reminder to attend OTF readout during RSAC call tomorrow

    • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1405120&calstart=2022-03-10

    • 10/Mar: Note Postponed 2 weeks:

      • @David Kinsey [AT&T] "I got notification late last night that our resource for OTF will not be able to make it. Therefore we will need to move this out two more weeks to the 3/24/2022 9am Eastern. Since outside the USA will not yet have moved to Daylight savings the meeting will appear an hour earlier (2pm CET)."

NONRTRIC (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• As per last week:

  • Working on e2e PM data - making it available over pre-R1 DME (OSC NONRTRIC) Information Coordination Service)

  • Working on PoC Service Exposure - with a view towards R1

    • Will update more as this matures - still very early - hopefully a demo in coming weeks

  • Working on getting Repos set up - e.g. lots of Jenkins jobs.

    • Thanks to the LF team!

SIM (@Alex Stancu)

• + in OAM @Martin Skorupski

• Topology creator & visualiser

  • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=oam.git;a=tree;f=code/network-topology-instance-generator

  • Also generates a JSON file for configured

  • Also a tool in OAM to create a docker compose file for this topology 

    • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=oam.git;a=tree;f=code/network-topology-parser

OAM (@Martin Skorupski)

• As above

• 5G Super Blueprint: Discussions continue

• No other update this week

O-DU (@Hariom Gupta @Vidhu (Deactivated))

• No update

RSAC/SMO (@David Kinsey [AT&T])

• No update

• Reminder: OTF update at tomorrow's RSAC call

  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1405120&calstart=2022-03-10

  • Walk-through session for OTF at upcoming RSAC meeting next week (March 10)

    • Near-RT-RIC platform as usecase ?

    • Session will be recorded etc

    • 10/Mar: Note Postponed 2 weeks:

      • @David Kinsey [AT&T] "I got notification late last night that our resource for OTF will not be able to make it. Therefore we will need to move this out two more weeks to the 3/24/2022 9am Eastern. Since outside the USA will not yet have moved to Daylight savings the meeting will appear an hour earlier (2pm CET)."

OSC Integration / INT (@James Li )

• Reminder OTF: (from TOC)

  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1405120&calstart=2022-03-10

  •  Walk-through session for OTF at upcoming RSAC meeting next week (March 10)

    • Near-RT-RIC platform as usecase?

    • Session will be recorded etc

    • 10/Mar: Note Postponed 2 weeks:

      • @David Kinsey [AT&T] "I got notification late last night that our resource for OTF will not be able to make it. Therefore we will need to move this out two more weeks to the 3/24/2022 9am Eastern. Since outside the USA will not yet have moved to Daylight savings the meeting will appear an hour earlier (2pm CET)."

ONAP Use Cases Update  (@N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• Struggling with 3GPP copyright / reuse.

  • Sent query to @Magnus Buhrgard & awaiting follow-up.

• Ransim: Evolving (slowly) towards Netopeer from Honeycomb @Vishal Varvate

  • Comments welcome from @Alex Stancu @Martin Skorupski

  • A1 in SON use case & RANSim (K Release +)

    • (Also being discussed in Slicing use case K Release +)

    • Next release in ONAP K. - Will start with update in ONAP REQ.

Upcoming LFN Summits (@Timo Perala (Nokia)

• LF vDTF event: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/2022+LFN+DTF+Workshop,  March 14^th and 15^th.

  • Four hours both days, European afternoons

  • Topics center around cross-community topics. Discussion on OSC/ONAP SMO is welcome. cross project discussion on orchestration (e.g. EMCO and Magma) also welcome.

    • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/2022+LFN+DTF+Workshop+Topics

• ONEEF https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-and-edge-exec-forum/, which is April 12-14.

SMO Integration Charts (Sebastien Determe)

• Sebastien Determe & @ChrisC

• CI/CD tooling implemented in Jenkins - working now (testing internally, & testing on Powder too)

  • Reports from tests now appear during review process

    • e.g. https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/it/dep/+/7864 contains sample tests, & reports from Jenkins jobs can be seen in comments

  • Documentation ongoing (wiki page, videos etc - to come)

    • Automated deployment and testing - using SMO package and ONAP Python SDK

  • Demo next week   & dedicated deep drives etc possible later.

  • Which tests?:

    • O1, Closed Loop use cases, O-RU / O-DU usecases, Apex Policy versions ..... different flavors, ... Lots to see next week!

  • Similar to the ONAP OOM tests ...

• Issues with DMaaP MR now fixed in the scripts now (override value) when SMO pack installed. 

Q/A

•  Evgeny Limonov joins us from DT.

  • Interested in R1, Non-RT-RIC, App management etc.

  • Observation initially.

  • Very Welcome!