2023-04-12 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Apr 12, 2023

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

• @Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)

• @Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)

• @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti (Windriver & ONAP & OSC INF)

• @Timo Perala (Nokia & ONAP)

• @Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)

• @Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)

• @Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)

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• Co-located with ONAP 2023-04-12 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

  • 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)  

• 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):

    • Nominations for OSC SMO PTL position open.

      • @Yogendra Pal gave a brief presentation on his candidature

      • (@Seshu Kumar Mudiganti gave a brief presentation on his candidature last week)

      • Election should start this week?

    • Discussion about how to align with MVPC features. However MVPC fatures are difficult to 'comply' with - until they they are broken down and more 'actionable'. Lots of parts missing / incomplete in OSC

    • Discussion about better alignment with WGs - More to follow here?

    • Proposal that subsets of PTLs should report in more detail some weeks.

  • This week's TOC (Tomorrow):

• No major update this week - Quiet week - Public Holidays & vacations

• Otherwise continuing as per last week :
  
  

  • Alot of work in JDK 17 & Springboot 3 updates

  • Consolidating PM data exposure in new repo for RAN PM functions

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

  • (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.

• ODU SIM now uses 3Gpp rel 18 yang models

  • Now available & in OAM Docker compose deployment

• ORU watchdog behavior?

• PM File generation
  
  

  • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) @Alex Stancu No update

• Working on Std-Defined VES Message examples for CM, FM, PM (17 different samples)

  • VES collector code updated to pull & inject YAML models automatically

  • Still working on examples & validation etc.

• Investigating WG4 OFHM v11 now has VES std defined models

  • Supervision mechanism under development to O-RU. (Watchdog & Reset)
    
    

    • Looking at related VES messages & how this integrates in Simulators - with SIM above

    • Needs an 'O-RU controller' - either in SMO or ODU to do resets etc)

      • Working on a small uService for this

• No update

• @Martin Skorupski will update about latest spec updates.

• No update

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings (11/4)

  • No update

• SMO (@Mahesh Jethanandani)
  
  

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

  • See OSC SMO Project meeting notes

  • PTL election continues

    • Nominations so far: @Yogendra Pal @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti 

    • Voting starts next week - ref. TOC section above

  • No Meeting this week

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• No update this week

• How to map defined notifications to a topic on Kafka?

  • Discussion: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OAM/Topics+for+OpenFronthaul-Management-Plane

• ONAP SON uses case ... & others

  • No Update

• No Update

• None

• @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti would like a little time next week to talk about Nephio next week.

Meeting ends 15min