2023-09-19 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Sep 19, 2023

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

• @Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)

• @James Li (CMTI & OSC INT)

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan (ONAP)

• @Ambrish Singh (Ericsson EST)

• @Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)

• @Rohith Rajneesh (Ericsson EST)

• @Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)

• @Denis G Noonan (Ericsson Software Technology) (Ericsson EST)

• @RAVITEJA KARUMURI (EST) (Ericsson EST)

• @Varadarajan (Samsung)

• @OpenAir Interface (OAI)

• @Kamel Idir (Ericsson

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

• Co-located with ONAP 2023-09-19 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Recording (MP4 - lo res))

• @Martin Skorupski & @Alex Stancu may not be available 26 Sept meeting.

• @Martin Skorupski & @Alex Stancu not available 03 Oct meeting.  (Public Holiday)

• @Martin Skorupski not available 10 Oct (Vacation)

• @Martin Skorupski not available 17 Oct (Vacation)

• Calendar:

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

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

  • 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

• 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

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

  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):

    • OSC & OAI collaboration discussion continues.

      • Workshop being planned.

        • https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/ 

        • Northeastern University on the 14-15 November 2023

        • @OpenAir Interface Requesting proposals. ASAP.

    • @James Li presented update on Testing & Integration

      • Ref https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/download/attachments/78217260/Pairwise%20Tests%20and%20Lab%20Status.pptx?api=v2 

  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):

    • Looking for updates for different workstreams

    • Unfortunately @N.K. Shankaranarayanan cannot attend this week for progress update

      • Skip @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti update re SMO?

      • Will update in 3 weeks - also plan to update at RSAC tomorrow (Wed 8AM morning EST)

• Updating sonar scans and related updates to improve results: making good progress

• Making good progress on rApp manager.

  • Demo last week:

    • 2023-09-12 Meeting notes - RApp Manager Interim Demo / Show&Tell @Aravindhan Ayyanathan 

  • Adding support for DME integration now. Will demo again in a few weeks.

• OpenAPI-first in A1-PMS & ICS

  • Change from code→openapi→docs to openapi → code-stubs & docs

  • To better align with R1 specs as they mature

  • To improve expressiveness of docs etc.

  • Almost all working now - no functional change visible, but lots of work!

• Some changes in A1-Mediator in near-RT-RIC plt in H-Release.

  • Meeting planned with Near-RT-RIC team tomorrow.

  • Further investigation needed re effects on A1-PMS/ICS & A1-SIM

  • Looks like OSC_v2.1.0. A1-AP (P) profile will b deprecated

    • Will phase out support A1-SIM and A1-PMS in coming releases, when A1-Mediator moves to spec version of A1-AP

  • Need to verify current implementation are fully spec compliant

  • Working on Pairwise test - will be ready as A1-Mediator implementation continues (few weeks)

    • Received info on how to start A1-Mediator in standalone mode - easier to test.

• continuing on ... no major update

• Hoping to get back to PM work ASAP

• @Martin Skorupski away this week

  • Short update

• Carrying on

  • Still work on PM Streaming. See below.

  • Working on O1 implementation for OAI

  • Trying to translate PM Dictionary & Alarm dictionary into Yang to help generate required functions

    • Should help at onboarding too.

    • Nice candidate for SCCL? (OSFG)

      • Still in progress - difficultly publishing updates in OSC on Alarms and PM Dictionary

• Gave update to TOC on Integration & Pairwise testing etc. last week

  •  https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/download/attachments/78217260/Pairwise%20Tests%20and%20Lab%20Status.pptx?api=v2

• Discussions on Integration env

  • Taiwan lab - possibility of better collaboration re CI/CD pipleline.

  • Discussion at RSAC tomorrow?

• No update this week

• No update this week.

• Meeting notes Meeting notes

• No update this week

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings 

  • Last week ?

  • Meeting tomorrow.

    • See proposed topics above

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• No update this week

• No update on PM Streaming this week

  • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) is updating sequence diagram for file-based & streaming proposal - Work in progress

  • @Alex Stancu Trying to get back to this topic for SIM as soon as possible.

• No update this week

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan Interest continues across opensource communities for open data sets (esp for AI/ML usecases) ...

• Details of using CPS is still ongoing

  • Quite complex ...

    • How to interact/integrate SDNR & CPS, e.g. mounted netconf device models, CM notifications,

      • e.g. what to use as CM handle?

      • How to align/map IDs with/without netconf server ID in MOID (function ID) ... esp in VES messages

• Originally planned for discussion at TOC call this week & hopefully RSAC tomorrow

• Mapping work in O-RAN WG1 (Disaggregated SMO) to related opensource projects 

  • Strawman for architecture - driven by some candidate usecase flows.

  • Aim for alignment across projects and across diff specs.

  • Aim for common vocabulary etc.

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan working on slides now. Will revert with draft version for minutes.

  • Draft Slides (WIP)
    

• None this week.

Meeting ends 66 min.