2025-01-28 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

Jan 28, 2025

Attendees

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

• @Martin Skorupski (highstreet & OSC OAM)

• @Alex Stancu (highstreet & OSC SIM)

• Subhash Kumar Singh (@subhash) (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)

• @Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)

• @Saul Gill (Ericsson EST)

• @Sridhar Rao (LF)

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan (Rutgers)

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

• Co-located with ONAP 2025-01-28 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting) 

Contents

Recording

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Next Meetings:

  • Cancel during F2F?
    
    

• 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

  • 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

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC & OSFG & RSAC calls last week

• TOC:

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

  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):

  • This week's TOC (Thursday):

• OSFG: (@Martin Skorupski)

  • No update or significant progress this week

  • Work ongoing in OCOP/OSFG about O-RAN process for code-fragments in specs. OSARP v1 available for review/comment before F2F.

• RSAC (@Rittwik Jana  @Martin Skorupski )

  • Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings 

NONRTRIC (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• (Quick summary this week - short on time

• Wrapping up loose ends for last release. - documentation, testing, deployments etc.

  • Ref Release K

• Scope for L Release still being considered. Likely reduced from previous releases.

• End-to-end demo & issues: @Martin Skorupski @Alex Stancu @Sridhar Rao

  • @Alex Stancu created a couple of Jira tickets

    • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/browse/NONRTRIC-1048

    • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/browse/NONRTRIC-1047

    • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/browse/INT-161

    • Related to https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/nonrtric/plt/ranpm/+/13974 from @Sridhar Rao ?

    • Don't think a new repo is needed. Will try incorporate changes into existing functionality.

    • Since datafilecollector can run multiple instances, should be okay to have multiple formats for different instance. Controlled by a config option?

  • @Alex Stancu & @Sridhar Rao still comparing notes, and @Aravindhan Ayyanathan & @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) examining Sridhar's PR (above) to try merge it into NONRTRIC RANPM.

  • Email from @Sridhar Rao about issue startingRANPM docker-setup  charts due to a version problem with OPA.

    • Leads to topic creation failure due to un-authorized.

    • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) will investigate further & create a ticket if needed.

    • @Sridhar Rao suggests pinning OPA version to  0.70.0-envoy-12 

SIM (@Alex Stancu)

• No update this week

OAM (@Martin Skorupski)

• (Quick summary this week - short on time)

• still wrapping up K-Release artifacts

• Working on scope for L Release

AI/ML platform project (@subhash

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• L-Release planning

  • Performance measurement of AI/ML models

    • e.g. model drift

  • Alignment with spec

SMO (@Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• Meeting notes Meeting notes

• No specific update

• Topology & Inventory: (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST) :

  • Lots of small updates in K-Release & ongoing. Focus on ingestion adapters in this release.

  • Issue: TEIV containers not starting. https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/browse/SMO-173  (@Karthick N Srinivasa Raghavan - Keysight)

    • Working on it now. Discussions over email ongoing.

      • Issue seems to be only in Docker-mode.

      • Suggest adding a short delay for DB to come up correctly (handled with an init-script in K8S deployment)

OSC Integration / INT (@fransiscus bimo )

• Minutes: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/IAT/Current+Meetings

• No update

Paris F2F planning

• @Martin Skorupski Would like to demo end-to-end OAI, OAM, SMO at F2F

  • Similar to Sridhar's work as discussed previously & below

  • Ref NONRTIC above re ranpm event formats

Demo/Discussion -Deployment use cases  @Sridhar Rao

• PM rApp in NONRTRIC ranpm

  • No update

• Replacing DMaaP-MR with Strimzi Kafka bridge

  • No update

• OAM K8s solutions/deployment?

  • No update

Other Questions / Comments / AOB:

• @N.K. Shankaranarayanan Latest draft of Slides for O-RAN SMO using ONAP/OSC/ etc.

  • DRAFT:

    • Considering where/how/if to add nephio/OAI/openstack/starlingx etc. on these slides.

    • Slide will never be complete. Intended as sample deployment & discussion slide.

Meeting ends 42 min