2024-08-27 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

Time & Location:

• Time Change: This meeting is now 1 hour later - 15:00 UTC on Tuesdays
  

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Date

27 Aug 2024

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Subhash Kumar Singh (subhash) (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)
• Denis G Noonan (Ericsson Software Technology) (Ericsson EST)
• Simeon Wuthier (NIST)
• Amir Arabi
• Varadarajan (Samsung)
• Deena Mukundan (Tech Mahindra)
• Gururajaroa Bandalakunta (guru raja) (Tech Mahindra)
• Srinivas Yanamadala (Tech Mahindra)
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See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2024-08-27 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)  (link unlikely to work after ONAP's Atlassian switchover)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lores)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Calendar: 

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

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

• Time Change:
  
  • This meeting is now 1 hour later - 15:00 UTC

• 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 calls last week

• TOC:
  • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • fransiscus bimo : OSC Community Lab Topology
    • Ifran: ETSI SNS Workshop (Martin Skorupski & DavidK will present OSC & OSFG there)
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):
    • No major topic planned yet (AFAIK)

• OSFG:
  • Arpit from LFN has a document (for/from some IEEE event(?)) about a possible reference framework, using LF projects.
    Will be discussed further next OSFG meeting (Mon 9 Sept)
    https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3482386473/2024-08-26+OSFG+Meeting+Minutes
    https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/132710560/Arpit-Joshipura-LinuxFoundation-OpenSourceRAN.pdf?api=v2

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• Still working away on issue from previous weeks:
  •  A1-Controller
    • NBI Issues: Last Week WG2 R1 spec for Nov release changes from March version (not backwards-compatible)Still trying to stabilise API for R1.
      
      • May cause disruption to users that have already adopted the New-Delhi or J-Release versions
    • Fixed a bug in A1-PMS in ONAP & OSC - Where 'transient' Policies were being deleted when a service is deleted.
      • Fix available & preparing tests & patch releases for ONAP (London, Montreal, New-Delhi) & OSC (J at least & hopefully older)
    • Fixing an issue with Service-ID (request param)  vs ClientID (in auth header) when creating an A1 Policy.
    • Updating to SpringBoot 3.3
    • Database-based persistent storage now enabled.
  • Service Manager
    • Hoping to discuss/demo (below) boot-strap service exposures at SMO start-up - but its proving a bit more difficult than expected.
    • Manual registration via API is still working fine - but currently all Services need to be explicitly registered rather than auto-registered.
  • Release K Planning:
    • No major update this week ... but will continue with more focus on demonstrators - esp aiming towards next F2F

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Planning to demo Hybrid & Hierarchical OAM at F2f - including interesting issues like VES message translation.
  
  • Hybrid and Hierarchical OAM Architecture
  • Uses the new Python platform for O1 & OFH simulators

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Working on wiki updates to update model links etc.
  • Discussion page: O-RAN YANG published in 2024-06 (awaiting WG5 WG10 clarifications)
    • Spotted some issues - See color-coding
    • Working on CRs for WG5 & WG10
• Working with Alex Stancu on Hybrid and Hierarchical OAM Architecture (Above)
• Some feedback on OAM functions from IOS-MCN (Ref Meeting 2024-07-23 Meeting notes)
  
  • Will discuss next week.
• Also considering reports of issues & age of some it/dep deployment - esp OAM parts

AI/ML platform project (subhash )

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• Working on integrating AIMLFW & NONRTRIC SME & rApps.
  • Small update from Demo last week
    • Demo: Bootstrapping NONRTRIC SME Service Manager with SMO Platform Services
    • Services with path parameters - the format of the returned URL is in form http://domain.com/path1/{pathparam}/path3 etc - not with regular expressions

OSC Integration / INT (fransiscus bimo )

• Minutes: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/IAT/Current+Meetings
• Difficult for fransiscus bimo to join this meeting, but martin will update if anything interesting pops up
• Working with O-DU team to get OSC O-DU running in Taiwan lab.

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• No update this week.

• Meeting notes Meeting notes

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

  • From Last week - Still ongoing
    • Working to add new/improved models
    • New improved image generation from TEIV models
    • Working to add support for grouping/collection in registry & api
    • Working to add tagging/classifiers/decorators to help markup & expressive retrieval of data from TEIV
    • Need to start working with others in OSC & beyond to help populate TEIV registry with data from their 'sources of truth'
    • Hope to make alot of use of TEIV in demos/rapps in K-Release
    • Refs:
      • doc: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-smo-teiv/en/latest/data-models-guide.html
      • code: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=smo/teiv.git;a=tree;f=teiv/src/main/resources/models

RSAC (Rittwik Jana  Martin Skorupski )

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings 
• No update this week

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• Deena Mukundan
  
  • Question about CAPIF & Service Manager: How does an invoker update the list of Services/APIs it wants to invoke, after discovery.
    • John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Current implementation assumes all Invokers (after registration) can discover all services. (Should be restricted to just the service they are allowed to invoke)
      
      • So currently, just go ahead and try access the service. Access to the service may then be locked by API Gateway of Service mesh, to enforce the Service Exposure.
      • CAPIF spec does not seem clear about how to do this.
    • John Keeney (Ericsson EST) unlikely to work more on this in this release
      • Limited bandwidth

Meeting ends 27 min