2023-06-06 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

2023-06-06 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

Time & Location:

Meeting Detail: Times & Joining Info

Tuesdays at 14:00 UTC in Summer (DST), 15:00 UTC in Winter

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89069708424?pwd=aGJOZm54eTUxd0FXR0VCU1N0ejBrUT09

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  • Meeting ID: 890 6970 8424. By Phone: Dial in (Local numbers): You will need a Participant ID so you will need to join the meeting from a Zoom client first to get this.

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

  • NOTE: During the "Daylight Savings Time" changeover periods (US vs Europe vs Asia) the time of the meetings may fluctuate. 

    • Summer Daylight Savings time (Q2, Q3) eventually stabilizes to:
      7am PDT | 10pm EDT | 14:00 UTC | 15:00 BST | 16:00 CEST | 17:00 EEST | 19:30 IST | 22:00 CST | 23:00 JST

    • Winter (non-DST) time (Q4, Q1) eventually stabilizes to:
      7am PST | 10am EST | 15:00 UTC | 16:00 GMT | 17:00 CET | 18:00 EET | 20:30 IST | 23:00 CST (Thurs) | 00:00 JST (Thurs)

    • (During Winter→Summer DST changeover follow US time. Summer→Winter DST changeover follow Europe time)

Please checkout the calendars:

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Date

Jun 6, 2023

Attendees

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

  • @Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)

  • @N.K. Shankaranarayanan(ONAP) 

  • @Aravindhan Ayyanathan(Ericsson EST) 

  • Very small attendance. Likely due to overlap with LFN DTF event

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

Contents

Recording

  • No recording this week

Notes:

No meeting today

  • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) @Martin Skorupski @N.K. Shankaranarayanan @Aravindhan Ayyanathan chatted for a bit, but no meeting held

  • No minutes & No recording.

Housekeeping:

  • Meeting cancelled in 2 weeks (20th June) - overlaps with O-RAN F2F meeting in Osaka. 

  • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) will be away on 20-June & 27-June

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call last week

NONRTRIC (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

  • No Update this week

  • Previous weeks:

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

    • (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.

SIM (@Alex Stancu)

  • No Update this week

OAM (@Martin Skorupski)

  • No Update this week

O-DU @Vidhu (Deactivated))

  • No update this week

OSC Integration / INT (@James Li )

  • No update this week

SMO (@Seshu Kumar Mudiganti )

RSAC (@David Kinsey [AT&T] @Rittwik Jana )

AI/ML platform project (@Joseph Thaliath)

ONAP/OSC Usecases (@N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

  • No Update this week

ONAP/OSC Alignment Usecase proposal for ONAP Montreal (@N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

  • As discussed in previous weeks

  • No Update this week

Questions / Comments / AOB:

  • None