2025-10-15 RSAC Meeting notes

00-05

admin

@Martin Skorupski

Next meetings

• Wed 2025-10-22 8am UTC

• Wed 2025-10-29 noon UTC canceled because of O-RAN F2F in Dallas

• Wed 2025-11-05 8am UTC

• Wed 2025-11-12 noon UTC

05-10

O-RAN-F2F

@Martin Skorupski

Who is going to demo something?
2025-10 O-RAN F2F DallasPreview

• Info from Yuya Kuno: Tacker

10-20

Versions

@bimo fransiscus asisi

Release "M" Software VersionsPreview

• updates on this page based on CVEs

• inform related project by Jira Sep 26, 2025 @Martin Skorupski

• Discussion on this page should be also “discussed” by Jira Sep 26, 2025 @Martin Skorupski

  • AIMLFW-275: Need to update K8S versionDonePreview

  • INT-201: Need to update K8S versionTo DoPreview

20-30

Homework - ToC

@Martin Skorupski

09-11: @David Kinsey [AT&T]
need to reactivate the periodical reporting from PTLs (idle for some time now). Projects updates are supposed to be provided to TOC in order for us to steer the activity.
PTLs are invited to prepare status reports for the upcoming weeks.
@Martin Skorupski is kindly asked to coordinate with PTLs and schedule the report presentations in the next TOC calls.

Format

Expectations on project per TOC meeting

Max 5min unless there are interesting questions …

Order

• RICAPP RIC Applications @Sunil Singh

• RIC Near Realtime RAN Intelligent Controller @abdulwahid.w

• RIC Platform to support xAPPs with limited support for O1, A1, and E2 interfaces.

• ODUHIGH O-RAN Distributed Unit High Layers @Ankit Barve

• ODULOW O-RAN Distributed Unit Low Layers @Peng Lu (Deactivated)

• OAM Operations and Maintenance @Martin Skorupski

• SIM Simulations @Alex Stancu

• INF Infrastructure @Jackie Huang

• INT Integration and Testing @bimo fransiscus asisi

• DOC Documentation @Weichen Ni

• NONRTRIC Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) @John Keeney (Ericsson EST)

• SMO Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti

• AIMLFW AI/ML Framework @subhash

30-30

O-RAN-SC O-DU integration

@Ray-Guang Cheng

O-DU LOW + xFAPI is done by Kyle @ Intel and Madhav @ Delhi University
Madhav is waiting Ankit to provide the correct repo for O-DU HIGH
Madhav will finish O-DU LOW + xFAPI + O-DU HIGH

30-45

Vision!
End-to-end use case

@bimo fransiscus asisi

SMO “one-click” deployment with selected components

• Continue with the “SMO one-click deployment” as stared by NonRtRic team (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST) )

  • Document the requirements an steps, automated and manual check points, @phani with support of all teams (NonRtRic, SMO, Tacker, AIMLFW, OAM, SIM, …)

  • rappManager first to onboard rApps

  • chartmuseum - by INT only

ES/EE rApps and End-to-end flow

• Continue work on Discussion End-to-End IntegrationPreview as started by INT team (@bimo fransiscus asisi )

  • PM Streaming according to spec

    • requires design and architecture - 3GPP/O-RAN - ASN.1/websocket - stream info

  • collaboration with e2e integration

  • rApp onboarding

  • integration with AIMLFW → with updates on call-flow

  • Alignment with Non-RT RIC team and SMO/Tacker team required for rapp onboarding management and automatic homing via O2.

    • ES-rApp and Profile merged by NonRtRic team - please have a look - (add reference)

Integration of “model learning” into the end-to-end flow above.

• // to be updated by Subhash

R1 compliant interface

Security

• common user management

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Bimo has created Jira for rApp development

• discussion between Bimo and Aravindhan

  • clean-up the env by script

  • follow-up in JIRA

Subhash

• installation along with SMO

• alignment in OWL

• share approach with Bimo

• Jira will be created by Subhash

Github Action

• Matt - is your men

45-50

Never ending CVE

@Martin Skorupski

• O-ran-sc : Products and vulnerabilities, CVEs (what is this?)

• Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)Preview (updated)

• references to release notes - per release

• tagging - repo and wiki

  • by default: ready to be used

  • labels

    • @Martin Skorupski : prepare content to be discussed here

• Discussion about updates of the parent CVE pagePreview

Does it make sense? Concerns, suggestions?

• https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/oam/+/14745

• Commented by @John Keeney (Ericsson EST)

• @Sridhar Rao is going to bring this to @Matt Watkins 's intention for Tooling support.

@Sridhar Rao @Matt Watkins https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/oam/+/14745 was merged - please let us know if you can start the implementation around it before other repos will be tagged like this.

INFO Sep 24, 2025

• The following contribution will be converted into git reviews
  oransc-sanity/agnik/FixedDocker/ric-app-lp/ric-app-lp-dockerfiles-build-report.md at main · sknrao/oransc-sanity

• O-RAN WG11 and OSFG are approaching O-RAN-SC to modify the statements on O-RAN-SC web and wiki pages - details under discussion.

Agreement reached between OSFG and WG11 → to be removed from agenda

50-55

Q/A

@all?

Lab Requirement for O-DU integration with Tacker

@Martin Skorupski find lab…

End of the Meeting

55-55

@Ray-Guang Cheng

Activities at NTUST (Taiwan Lab)

• Presentation by @Yosafat Marselino (please see presentation in previous minutes)

• end-to-end pipeline with O2 and OAI

• testing pipeline

Open Points

• How to integrate NFO extensions from Taiwan team into NFO by Tacker Team? → Toshi

• How to integrate NFO into SMO? → Seshu

Missing function of NFO to be contributed

• O2-DMS

  • ETSI profile to O-RAN-SC repo - SMO/O2

  • How is the integration with Tacker in this case?

• O2-IMS

  • some extensions - where? to be answered by Seshu

AI @Martin Skorupski - reach out to Tacker and SMO team

Info from @John Keeney (Ericsson EST)

• SMO deployment targets deployment of tacker and/or nephio based approach - current start is nephio

• IMS in nephio implementations ongoing…

• FOCOM implementation in nephio by Capgemini
  
  

Thanks Toshi for sharing the Tacker plan: <add link here>

55-55

Different implementation for similar functions

@bimo fransiscus asisi

Alignment of similar deployments within SMO

55-55

M-Release

@Martin Skorupski

Timeline

• M-Release TimelinePreview

How to update

• Release "M"Preview

• the page: Release "M" Software Versions should be referenced

  • Chartmuseum - possible solution with NodePort - Bimo to decide

    • solved - merge request in gerrit - https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/it/dep/+/14788

    • Chartmuseum with name local - separated from k8s due to github actions

    • pipeline under construction.

  • O-DU support k8s deployment - declaration file → N-Release?

  • Where to host a binary → AI: Martin reachout to Sridhar - what are possible solution

    • in case of private → token - where to host

    • what is the status of the discussion

55-55

Resources in OWL

@bimo fransiscus asisi

Resource Allocation

• OWL Cloud InventoryPreview

Password Manager

• used of shearing bare-metal and OpenStack credentials.

• https://o-ran-sc.1password.com

• under construction

Github Actions / CI/DI and impact on OWL

• external APIs → triggered from outside

• AccessControl and firewalls software?… - Martin/Ravi

@bimo fransiscus asisi is using srv2 until Friday

55-55

N-Release

@Martin Skorupski

Just Info - N-Release → N-ReleasePreview