2023-04-19 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Apr 19, 2023

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

• @Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)

• @Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)

• @Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)

• @Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)

• @Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)

• @Kamel Idir (Ericsson)

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

• Co-located with ONAP 2023-04-19 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 - TBC

  • 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

• Time is very late for attendees from Asia ... maybe a bit earlier ... but not earlier than 5AM West-US

• Suggestions in coming weeks.

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

  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):

    • OSC SMO PTL : @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti. Congratulations!

    • Discussion continue about how to align with MVPC features.

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

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

    • Suggestion to present Sylva project in an upcoming call

      • https://gitlab.com/sylva-projects/sylva 

      • https://gitlab.com/sylva-projects/sylva/-/blob/main/White_Paper_Operators_Sylva.pdf

  • This week's TOC (Tomorrow):

• Extending A1-Policy Management service in ONAP to support fine-grained access control

• Making good progress on CAPIF service registry/discovery functions. Hope to demo in coming weeks

• Documenting ONAP ACM/rApp participants contributed during this release

• Improving support for x509 certs

• Documenting & improving deployability of RANPM functions

• Improving NONRTRIC Function/Integration testing with new profiles for current ONAP/OSC releases.

  • Need to see how we perhaps trigger some of tests in cooperation with @James Li / INT project.

  • Need to work on keep SMO deployment working in it/dep - including tests etc.

• Otherwise continuing as per last week :

  • 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.

• WG4 OFHM O-RAN watchdog/supervision activity & reset

  • (Reverse) Heartbeat from O-RU

• PM File generation

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

• Still 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.

• .. And WG4 OFHM v11 now has VES std defined models

  • Messages are based on Yang, which makes translation → VES a bit tricky

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

    • Working on a small uService to react to resets/timeouts etc.

• No update

• Adding more automation & testing for H Release

  • Focusing on near-RT-RIC deployment & xApps onboarding & testing with existing Robot scripts in XTesting.

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings (19/4)

• SMO (@Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

  • Presented O-Cloud operator for Nephio - and proposal for how to work across related opensource project.

    • Slides:
      

    • Recording: https://zoom.us/rec/share/L6oZMOvt4aDp1Xc8ogBqHDx_ezsauEJIC071-r-Kow1b1xFfF7NnFgT-jxfewMv1.PmKYjDRJLtjybydv 

    • maybe we can further discuss / demo at an upcoming meeting here?

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• No update this week

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Meeting ends 25min