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Date

Jun 29, 2022

Attendees

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

• @Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)

• @James Li (CMCC & INT)

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan (STL & ONAP)

• @Timo Perala (Nokia) (Nokia & ONAP)

• @Bhanu Chandra K (Aarna) 

• Halil Cakal (Ericsson EST)

• @Kamel Idir (Ericsson)

• @Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)

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

• @Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)

• @Former user (Deleted) (Fujitsu) 

• 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 2022-06-29 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

Notes:

Housekeeping:

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 last week

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

  • Note Time change for TOC calls from May 5th onward

    • +1 day & 1hr. Thursdays  (Thursday 9AM EST)

    • Timeslot is currently used by RSAC/SMO (RSAC/SMO will take the timeslot originally used for TOC)

    • Keep watching calendar as updates are ongoing 

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

  • News from TOC call last weeks:

    • F Release vote due at TOC call tomorrow

    • G Release planning ramping up

    • Discussion continue in RSAC about new work on AI-ML platform

    • Request for RSAC to report more on compliance/alignment with O-RAN specs & MVP outputs. More discussion needed about how.

    • New xApp Frame/sdk repos approved to support xApps written in Rust language.

    • LF License scan completed - no major issue foreseen

NONRTRIC (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• Wrap up F release

  • Artifact Release & Branching completed

    • Vote expected at tomorrow TOC call

  • Still some documentation etc ongoing

  • Still trying to get some rApp use cases running in it/dep deployment

• Upstreaming service exposure prototyping

  • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/nonrtric/+/8531 + ongoing in G release

• G release planning

  • Will give more update in coming weeks & discuss in RSAC calls.

  • Continue Service Exposure work (R1-SEF)

  • Continue Data Management & Exposure work (R1-DME)

  • Progress rApp manager especially

    • rApp registration & discover & authorization

    • rApp LCM

    • Overlapping with service & data exposure/consumption

    • Will further identify overlap & extensions to ONAP "Automation Composition Manager (ACM)"

  • Continue A1 work

  • Work on overlapping topics related to proposed AI/ML work (see TOC/RSAC discussions)

• Delivering call-out capability in A1-Simualtor to support policy-specific or app-spec behavior

  • Will be use in ONAP - A1-Sim embedded in ONAP RANSim - used 5G SON Use case  NONRTRIC-754: NONRTRIC - Extend A1 Simulator for a Custom LogicDonePreview

SIM (@Alex Stancu)

• @Alex Stancuon vacation

  • Team continuing with getting repo sorted for ns3-based simulator

OAM (@Martin Skorupski)

• @Martin Skorupski was at Plugfest / OTIC event last week:

  • https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PLUG/pages/2396684325/RESTRICTED+EDITING+O-RAN+Global+PlugFest+Spring+2022+-+CONF

  • https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PLUG/pages/2438397962/O-RAN+Global+PlugFest+Spring+2022+-+Hosted+by+AT+T+and+DISH

  • Difficult to gather feedback from readout sessions

  • Format may need to change a little for future events.

• Finishing F Release

  • Still some integration use cases need a bit more work

    • Access control / authentication platform support still a bit tricky - may need to move to G.

      • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Lots of common functionality in NONRTRIC - Lets work on this together in G release.

• G release

  • Next ODL version

    • Maybe move to java 17 in G release

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

• No Update

OSC Integration / INT (@James Li )

• @James Li was out of office last week - No update.

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

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings

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

• Samsung proposal for new project & work in current projects around ML/AI functions in OSC.

  • Discussions will continue in coming RSAC calls.

• G release planning to ramp up (see TOC above)

• Request from TOC for feedback on alignment with O-RAN spec / MVP output (see TOC above)

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

• RANSIM for SON usecase

  • https://jira.onap.org/browse/INT-2127

  • A1-Sim extension (see nonrtric section above)  NONRTRIC-754: NONRTRIC - Extend A1 Simulator for a Custom LogicDonePreview

  • Outstanding question of how websocket is used internally ....

    • https://jira.onap.org/secure/attachment/18086/ONAP_OOF_SON_R11_ArchitectureReview_20220606.pptx

    • Plan to continue with using websocket,

    • Netconf would be good for some cases, however difficult to use netopeer (c++). Juniper? (java-based). 

      • Want to align with whatever is used in OSC. Can @Alex Stancu suggest?

      • Might be helpful to wrap netopeer in a docker image, then use it as it is rather than embed it?

Q/A

• @Kevin Tang One of the VM in Winlab is not working (used from ONAP Slicing use case).

  • @Martin Skorupski Please send the name/details - will check ASAP. Some servers seem to have an issue - will check.

LFN DTF - June 2022 (@Timo Perala (Nokia) )

• Lots of interesting talks - Attendance a little low - lots of good cross-community interations.

  • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65537697

  • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/2022+LFN+Developer+Event+Topics+June

  • Some recordings & slides already available