2023-12-05 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Dec 5, 2023

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

• @Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)

• @Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)

• @James Li (CMTI & OSC INT)

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan (ONAP)

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

• @Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)

• @Rohith Rajneesh  (Ericsson EST)

• @Varadarajan (Samsung)

• @Kamel Idir (Ericsson)

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• Co-located with ONAP 2023-12-05 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

• Upcoming Meetings:

  • 2023-12-12 (Martin ooo)

  • 2023-12-19 canceled
    
    

  • 2023-12-26 canceled

  • 2024-01-02 canceled

  • 2024-01-09 canceled
    
    

  • 2024-01-16

• Calendar:

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

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

• 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):

    • Update about OAI/OSC/OSFG workshop

    • Update from @Thoralf Czichy about near-rt-ric & xapps projects

    • All PTLs update Release I information

    • All PTLs should update wikis & start ORAN Spec compliance

    • Update from OSFG

  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):

    • Update from @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on SMO & Orchestration ?

    • Update from @N.K. Shankaranarayanan on SMO flows ?

    • OSFG ... Time stabilizing to Monday 5AM PST - but watch O-RAN Alliance Calendar.

• Service Exposure Manager - Started - New function pulling together previous work. Unlikely to deliver in this release
  
  

• Finalizing rApp manager for first release in Release I.

• Pairwise test A1 Policy functions in near-RT-RIC & NONRTRIC

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

    • Working fine now in our function tests,
      
      

  • Working on Pairwise test for Integration environment -

    • Working with @James Li & @naman.gupta to get hw-go xApp working in test env.

    • Working on test script - but no major issue forseen

• O-RAN Spec API compliance for R1-SME, R1-DME (TBC), R1-A1, A1

  • A1 & R1-A1 in good state right now.

    • Will continue to make small changes as needed.

    • Working on how to describe outgoing calls

  • R1-DME will likely need alot of work as R1-DME specs mature

  • R1-SME interface being defined as part of "Service Exposure Manager" (above).

• Release I ongoing: images, documentation, wiki, branching

• Wrapping up I Release

• @Martin Skorupski Attended OSFG/OTIC readout in Washington:

  •   Lots of examples of integrations - with alot of opensource in use.

• O-RAN "planning" tool to visualise & deploy a RAN, and populate topology & inventory

  • Ongoing. No major update this week.

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• Meeting notes Meeting notes

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• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings 

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• No update this week

• 13-16 November

• https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=101351543

• Video & slides available now

  • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/2023-11+LFN+Developer+Event+Sessions+November

• @Kamel Idir Interesting topics:

  • ONAP streamlining discussions

  • @N.K. Shankaranarayanan  slides discussed here also presented by @Byung-Woo Jun 

  • OOM → Argo CD

  • Intent management

  • Good presentations from ONAP CPS team

  • GitOps-based onboarding of CNFs   (xApps? rApps?)

  • Lots of good discussions around Nephio

  • ODL upgrades in coming releases.

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