Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

TOC Voting Members

Company	Name	Alternate
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid	Abdulwahid
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	Ankit Barve
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
Wind River	Jackie Huang	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly	Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

TOC Meeting Info

Technical Oversight Committee meetings are open to the public [ changed as of 5/5/2022] and no longer on Wednesdays at 8 AM Eastern Time USA. World Time Zone Map

We meet on Thursdays, at 9am EST. Time Zone Map

Zoom 2 Info:

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android: https://zoom.us/j/7562808472
Or Telephone: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location)
- 855 880 1246 (Toll Free), 877 369 0926 (Toll Free)
- Meeting ID: 7562808472
- International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/avfEhZhiB

City	Time	Zoom/Audio Bridge
	9 AM Eastern Time USA. World Time Zone Map	https://zoom.us/j/7562808472
New York (EST / UTC-5)	9 AM Eastern Time USA. World Time Zone Map	+1 669 900 6833, +1 646 558 8656, 855 880 1246 (Toll Free), 877 369 0926 (Toll Free), Meeting ID: 756 280 8472
Paris (CET / UTC+1)	9 AM Eastern Time USA. World Time Zone Map	+33 7 5678 4048, +33 1 8288 0188, 805 082 588 (Toll Free), Meeting ID: 756 280 8472
Beijing (CST / UTC+8)	9 AM Eastern Time USA. World Time Zone Map	+86 10 87833177, +86 10 53876330, 400 616 8835 (Toll Free), 400 669 9381 (Toll Free), Meeting ID: 756 280 8472
Tokyo (JST / UTC+9)	9 AM Eastern Time USA. World Time Zone Map	+81 524 564 439, +81 3 4578 1488, 0 800 100 5040 (Toll Free), Meeting ID: 756 280 8472
Helsinki (EET / UTC+2)	9 AM Eastern Time USA. World Time Zone Map	+358 341092129, Meeting ID: 756 280 8472

TOC Documents repository

TOC Documents

2024 09 12

Recording

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Samsung (Avinash)
Previous scribe:
- 2024 => September: Samsung, August: WindRiver; July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange
- 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson
- 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T
Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	x
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	x
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	x	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka	x	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Abdulwahid	x
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	x
TIM	Andrea Buldorini	x
Wind River	Jackie Huang	x	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly	x	Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	x	Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

Review of Today's Agenda
1. Call for September Scribe - Avinash Bhat
2. Roll Call
3. Review previous meeting minutes
4. Next Meeting 19 Sep 2024
  1. Call for September Scribe: Samsung
5. New Items: No
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
7. Old Business
  1. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments:
2. Decision: 09/05 Motion to Approve Ankit Barve ; Second : John-Paul Lane No objects; Minutes are Approved
3. Call for September Scribe:
Release
1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
2. Other
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.
    2. 08-08 Discussed about the difference between SCCL and SCCP. Jakub Novy [DTAG] share the update about SCCL process document.
    3. 09-05 David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that work is ongoing to include this in March Train, including the license integration by LFN.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
    1. 08-22: Tracy Van Brakle shared slides that is presented by Arpit Joshipura about the Super Wireless Blueprint vision.
    2. 08-29: Tracy Van Brakle OSFG update for the Super Wireless Blueprint development.
    3. 09-05: David Kinsey [AT&T] updated that the plan is to come up with a whitepaper for Super Wireless Blueprint. The proposal is to roll it out in collaboration with OAI, LFN. The same is planned for discussion on this topic during the F2F meeting.
    4. 09-12: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that is important to collaborate with OAI & LFN and arrive at a timeline to discuss this. There is a need for some tweaking for this work, and it is better to initiate this soon.
  4. Other
    1. 08-22: Irfan and David Kinsey [AT&T] discussed about the SNS workshop.
    2. 08-29: Irfan talked about the SNS workshop: request for another talk about the white paper in the Super Wireless blueprint, no final answer from ETSI yet.
    3. 09-05: Irfan mentioned that the agenda and overall speaker list to be finalized by 15th Sep
    4. 09-12: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that he has confirmed to the organizers, and he has been given a 20 min standalone slot. Dr. Ye, and and and Hank Kafka to help with the content.
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
  1. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).
    1. 08-01 Motion for the migration from David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by John-Paul Lane, No objections motion carried.
    2. 08-08 The migration is done, and some redirection issues are fixed. Sridhar Rao shared the migration feedback collection table: O-RAN-SC-Confluence-Migration - Google Table
    3. 08-15 Matt Watkins mentioned a request from Sridhar Rao, which was to get a number of people's email addresses to be granted Admin rights for new wiki page.
    4. 09-05 No update on the Navigation bar or LFN Insights issue. Matt Watkins to follow up on both the ticket (details in ToC slack channel)
    5. 09-12 Matt Watkins mentioned that the replacement Plugin for the navigation bar is installed on the test instance, not the production instance. The same should be considered while checking. Martin mentioned that the previous bar plugins were supplied by a 3rd party and right now the only option seems like to use the closest Atlassian Plugins to get same result. Martin walked through edit capabilities to modifying the space contents. Matt to Work with Martin Skorupski offline sort out the issue.
2. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 08-08 Martin Skorupski Mentioned Alex Stancu (SIM project) is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
    2. 08-15 Martin Skorupski shared the link for release k demos: Release "K" - Requirements and Software Architecture Committee - Confluence (atlassian.net)
    3. 09-05 Martin Skorupski reviewed the list of demos planned for Release K. Couple of more demos are not listed , but are in planning stage (Ankit & Sridhar)
    4. 09-12
      1. Martin Skorupski shared updated on the demo page and the time allotted to each demo (6~7 demos are planned).
      2. Overview of Hybrid and Hierarchical OAM Architecture and demo setup was discussed. Martin clarified that both live and recorded video are planned.
      3. Sridhar expects real users to share their user experience of using O-RAN SC components, he will the use case that he is planning for Government of India Demo.
      4. avinash.bhat proposed to invite more user expereince sharing
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 08-08 Update about the rearrangement of INT pages, the demos and FlexRAN.
    2. 08-22 bimo fransiscus asisi updated the adjustment to fix the topology and shared the link of the OSC Community Lab Topology
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
    1. 08-01 Jackie Huang Presented status of INF in J release and plan for K release.
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
    1. 08-08 abdulwahid.w High level update for RIC project.
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
    1. 08-08 Alex Stancu is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
    1. 08-22 subhash updates for AIML: focus on integration with Non-RT RIC; the model of performance measurement; alignment with direction provided by WG2 specifications.
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
3. Internship updates
  1. 08-08: It has been kicked off with the Rimedo Labs
  2. 08-29: Sridhar Rao we should have the first draft ready by the end of November

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- Next Meeting 19 Sep 2024

2024 09 05

Recording

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Samsung (Avinash)
Previous scribe:
- 2024 => September: Samsung, August: WindRiver; July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange
- 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson
- 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T
Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Abdulwahid	X
Orange	Julien Boudani	X
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
TIM	Andrea Buldorini	X
Wind River	Jackie Huang	X	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly	X	Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	X	Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

Review of Today's Agenda
1. Call for September Scribe - Avinash Bhat
2. Roll Call
3. Review previous meeting minutes
4. Next Meeting 12 Sep 2024
  1. Call for September Scribe: Samsung
5. New Items:
  1. Subhash Kumar Singh (AIMLFW PTL) has requested approval for a new 3 repository (aiml-fw/apm/monitoring-server)
  2. Andy Yun, WG6 co-chair to share his thoughts and how to collaborate with TOC (proposed by James)
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
7. Old Business
  1. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments:
2. Decision: 08/29 Motion to Approve Julian Garrett ; Second Ankit Barve : No objects; Minutes are Approved
3. Call for September Scribe:
Release
1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
2. Other
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. Subhash Kumar Singh (AIMLFW PTL) has requested approval for a new 3 repository (aiml-fw/apm/monitoring-server)
  1. Subhash made proposal to three new repositories (Collect, Monitor, Analyse) . The same is planned for future F2F Demo
  2. No Objection for the repository proposal, the same was approved
2. Andy Yun, WG6 co-chair to share his thoughts and how to collaborate with TOC (proposed by James)
  1. David suggested we can discussion O-Cloud roadmap could be presented in future TOC Meetings
  2. David provided about the release cadence and the plan to have more demos in upcoming F2Fs.
3. Sridhar introduced Sally, who is planning to come-up with writeup covering different members. The template for the same will be shared
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.
    2. 08-08 Discussed about the difference between SCCL and SCCP. Jakub Novy [DTAG] share the update about SCCL process document.
    3. 09-05 David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that work is ongoing to include this in March Train, including the license integration by LFN.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
    1. 08-22: Tracy Van Brakle shared slides that is presented by Arpit Joshipura about the Super Wireless Blueprint vision.
    2. 08-29: Tracy Van Brakle OSFG update for the Super Wireless Blueprint development.
    3. 09-05: David Kinsey [AT&T] updated that the plan is to come up with a whitepaper for Super Wireless Blueprint. The proposal is to roll it out in collaboration with OAI, LFN. The same is planned for discussion on this topic during the F2F meeting.
  4. Other
    1. 08-22: Irfan and David Kinsey [AT&T] discussed about the SNS workshop.
    2. 08-29: Irfan talked about the SNS workshop: request for another talk about the white paper in the Super Wireless blueprint, no final answer from ETSI yet.
    3. 09-05: Irfan mentioned that the agenda and overall speaker list to be finalized by 15th Sep
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
  1. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).
    1. 08-01 Motion for the migration from David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by John-Paul Lane, No objections motion carried.
    2. 08-08 The migration is done, and some redirection issues are fixed. Sridhar Rao shared the migration feedback collection table: O-RAN-SC-Confluence-Migration - Google Table
    3. 08-15 Matt Watkins mentioned a request from Sridhar Rao, which was to get a number of people's email addresses to be granted Admin rights for new wiki page.
    4. 09-05 No update on the Navigation bar or LFN Insights issue. Matt Watkins to follow up on both the ticket (details in ToC slack channel)
2. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 08-08 Martin Skorupski Mentioned Alex Stancu (SIM project) is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
    2. 08-15 Martin Skorupski shared the link for release k demos: Release "K" - Requirements and Software Architecture Committee - Confluence (atlassian.net)
    3. 09-05 Martin Skorupski reviewed the list of demos planned for Release K. Couple of more demos are not listed , but are in planning stage (Ankit & Sridhar)
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 08-08 Update about the rearrangement of INT pages, the demos and FlexRAN.
    2. 08-22 bimo fransiscus asisi updated the adjustment to fix the topology and shared the link of the OSC Community Lab Topology
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
    1. 08-01 Jackie Huang Presented status of INF in J release and plan for K release.
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
    1. 08-08 abdulwahid.w High level update for RIC project.
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
    1. 08-08 Alex Stancu is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
    1. 08-22 subhash updates for AIML: focus on integration with Non-RT RIC; the model of performance measurement; alignment with direction provided by WG2 specifications.
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
3. Internship updates
  1. 08-08: It has been kicked off with the Rimedo Labs
  2. 08-29: Sridhar Rao we should have the first draft ready by the end of November

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- Next Meeting 12 Sep 2024

2024 08 29

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): WindRiver (Jackie)
Previous scribe:
- 2024 => August: WindRiver; July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange
- 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson
- 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T
Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	X
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Abdulwahid	X
Orange	Julien Boudani	X
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
TIM	Andrea Buldorini	X
Wind River	Jackie Huang	X	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly	X	Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	X	Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

Review of Today's Agenda
1. Call for August Scribe - Jackie
2. Roll Call
3. Review previous meeting minutes
4. Next Meeting 05 Sep 2024
  1. Call for September Scribe: Samsung
5. New Items:
  1. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) to discuss the use and accuracy of the LFX Insights portal for O-RAN-SC
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
7. Old Business
  1. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments:
2. Decision: 08/22 Motion to Approve Ankit Barve; Second Jackie Huang: No objects; Minutes are Approved
3. Call for August Scribe: Jackie Huang
Release
1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
2. Other
  1. Matt Watkins reported the status of migration from Jenkins Jobs to Github Actions (gha). Open items can be found here. JJ and gha will continue in parallel for a while.
  2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested guidance of where to find a central reference about the gha and link to the repos. Clarified that gha are described at repo level. Documentation available here. Creating a wiki page and FAQ for reference can be considered.
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. Internal Discussion: The use and accuracy of the LFX Insights portal for O-RAN-SC
  1. Stats link: https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/foundation/oran
  2. Stats are not accurate and are misleading
  3. Non-RT RIC Example indicates that there has been just 1 contribution in the past year
    1. https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/foundation/oran/overview/github?project=oran-nonrtric
  4. A ticket is raised:
    1. https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/4/SUPPORT-29313
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.
    2. 08-08 Discussed about the difference between SCCL and SCCP. Jakub Novy [DTAG] share the update about SCCL process document.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
    1. 08-22: Tracy Van Brakle shared slides that is presented by Arpit Joshipura about the Super Wireless Blueprint vision.
    2. 08-29: Tracy Van Brakle OSFG update for the Super Wireless Blueprint development.
  4. White Paper
    1. 07-25: Tracy Van Brakle whitepaper on front burner again
  5. Other
    1. 07-25: David Kinsey [AT&T] : Update regarding Bedminster (New Jersey) lab?Tracy Van Brakle: To discuss with David Kinsey [AT&T] and
    2. 07-25: huangjinri@chinamobile.com discussed regarding participation of ORAN in ETSI conference on software and standards.
    3. 08-22: Irfan and David Kinsey [AT&T] discussed about the SNS workshop.
    4. 08-29: Irfan talked about the SNS workshop: request for another talk about the white paper in the Super Wireless blueprint, no final answer from ETSI yet.
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
  1. Adoption of Slack
    1. Motion from avinash.bhat on 27 Jun 2024 seconded by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded. No objections motion carried
    2. Motion for RSAC Co-Chairs by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded by avinash.bhat No objections motion carries
    3. Martin Skorupski will create the needed Jira ticket
    4. 07-18 Martin Skorupski created an issue for this task, Matt Watkins yet to create the channel and to provide access to Martin Skorupski to create further channels if needed
  2. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).
    1. Matt Watkins Current version is on dedicated servers for some tools like Confluence and Jira, the new version would be in public cloud
    2. David Kinsey [AT&T] Some of the Jira "Leads" are outdated and need to be corrected. This could be done prior or post migration Jessica Gonzalez : The test migration was done a while ago, since then some change have happened in the production Jira and Confluence that are not reflected in the test migration. For the production migration, we will be transferring the content from the day that the migration is agreed to happen.
    3. Matt Watkins Short term existing links will continue to work, long term solution not yet finalized Jessica Gonzalez We will be setting up a re-direct URL from the old Jira and Confluence to the new one. Internal links also will get updated.
    4. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Need a week to evaluate the impacts, vote will be on 18 Jul 2024
    5. 07-18
      1. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : will page id remain same post migration? Matt Watkins : yes, page Ids to remain same post migration. Jessica Gonzalez Space IDs also remain the same. Jira links will change from "jira.o-ran-sc.org" to "lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net"
      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Will attachments such as uploaded recordings, demos, and documents be migrated along with the pages? Matt Watkins : There were some issues regarding data base migration faced in earlier project migration. Differing this topic for next week meeting to be discussed with Jessica in detail. Jessica Gonzalez We were having issues with servers using more than 250GB of data. O-ran should be good on this regards. Attachments will be migrated as well.
      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Are any changes expected in the user profile, such as the username or other details? Matt Watkins : Users are not likely to be affected by this, but Jessica will provide more information and clarity next week. Jessica Gonzalez users are going to be migrated too. The users can login at atlassian.com with their email address.
    6. 08-01 Motion for the migration from David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by John-Paul Lane, No objections motion carried.
    7. 08-08 The migration is done, and some redirection issues are fixed. Sridhar Rao shared the migration feedback collection table: O-RAN-SC-Confluence-Migration - Google Table
    8. 08-15 Matt Watkins mentioned a request from Sridhar Rao, which was to get a number of people's email addresses to be granted Admin rights for new wiki page.
2. Brand Changes
  1. Logo Adoption - Defer to 18 Jul 2024
    1. 07-18 Option 3 was chosen for the logo, based on the votes and preferences received.
  2. Sally working on communications
3. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
    1. 07-18Sagar Arora
      1. Regarding the user story working with NFO: developers have tested the code (link). However, an official announcement has not been made yet, as I am still testing.
      2. Regarding nearRT RIC user story: nearRT RIC could be deployed by nephio using operator.
      3. David Kinsey [AT&T] : Could we have a demo of these user stories during next face 2 face in Oct 2024?
      4. Sagar Arora It will be available by Oct 2024.
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 07-25 Martin Skorupski: PTLs to come up with demos to be planned for next face 2 face.
    2. 08-08 Martin Skorupski Mentioned Alex Stancu (SIM project) is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
    3. 08-15 Martin Skorupski shared the link for release k demos: Release "K" - Requirements and Software Architecture Committee - Confluence (atlassian.net)
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 07-25 bimo fransiscus asisi presented status of OSC labs and Integration plan.
    2. 08-08 Update about the rearrangement of INT pages, the demos and FlexRAN.
    3. 08-22 bimo fransiscus asisi updated the adjustment to fix the topology and shared the link of the OSC Community Lab Topology
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
    1. 08-01 Jackie Huang Presented status of INF in J release and plan for K release.
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
    1. 08-08 abdulwahid.w High level update for RIC project.
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
    1. 08-08 Alex Stancu is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
    1. 08-22 subhash updates for AIML: focus on integration with Non-RT RIC; the model of performance measurement; alignment with direction provided by WG2 specifications.
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
4. Internship updates
  1. 07-25:Sridhar Rao: Applicants were not qualified enough for the activities planned (RIC analysis). Presented new model of working for internship, no change in funding only the way to get student changes. ONF also looking for research activity for evaluation. plan is to collaborate with ONF involving Rimedo labs for research activities. An advisory committee to be formed with ORAN SC PTLs and ONF members which will work closely with Rimedo labs and generating research report by Nov or Dec.
  2. 08-08: It has been kicked off with the Rimedo Labs
  3. 08-29: Sridhar Rao we should have the first draft ready by the end of November

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- Next Meeting 05 Sep 2024

2024 08 22

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): WindRiver (Jackie)
Previous scribe:
- 2024 => July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange
- 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson
- 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T
Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	X
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka		Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid	X	Abdulwahid
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
TIM	Andrea Buldorini	X
Wind River	Jackie Huang	X	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly		Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	X	Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

Review of Today's Agenda
1. Call for August Scribe - Jackie
2. Roll Call
3. Review previous meeting minutes
4. Next Meeting 29 Aug 2024
5. No New Items this week
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
7. Old Business
  1. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments:
2. Decision: 08/15 Motion to Approve Jackie Huang Second: avinash.bhat; No objects; Minutes are Approved
3. Call for August Scribe: Jackie Huang
Release
1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
2. Other
  1. Matt Watkins reported the status of migration from Jenkins Jobs to Github Actions (gha). Open items can be found here. JJ and gha will continue in parallel for a while.
  2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested guidance of where to find a central reference about the gha and link to the repos. Clarified that gha are described at repo level. Documentation available here. Creating a wiki page and FAQ for reference can be considered.
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. No Presentations
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.
    2. 08-08 Discussed about the difference between SCCL and SCCP. Jakub Novy [DTAG] share the update about SCCL process document.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
    1. 08-22: Tracy Van Brakle shared slides that is presented by Arpit Joshipura about the Super Wireless Blueprint vision.
  4. White Paper
    1. 07-25: Tracy Van Brakle whitepaper on front burner again
  5. Other
    1. 07-25: David Kinsey [AT&T] : Update regarding Bedminster (New Jersey) lab?Tracy Van Brakle: To discuss with David Kinsey [AT&T] and
    2. 07-25: huangjinri@chinamobile.com discussed regarding participation of ORAN in ETSI conference on software and standards.
    3. 08-22: Irfan and David Kinsey [AT&T] discussed about the SNS workshop.
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
  1. Adoption of Slack
    1. Motion from avinash.bhat on 27 Jun 2024 seconded by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded. No objections motion carried
    2. Motion for RSAC Co-Chairs by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded by avinash.bhat No objections motion carries
    3. Martin Skorupski will create the needed Jira ticket
    4. 07-18 Martin Skorupski created an issue for this task, Matt Watkins yet to create the channel and to provide access to Martin Skorupski to create further channels if needed
  2. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).
    1. Matt Watkins Current version is on dedicated servers for some tools like Confluence and Jira, the new version would be in public cloud
    2. David Kinsey [AT&T] Some of the Jira "Leads" are outdated and need to be corrected. This could be done prior or post migration Jessica Gonzalez : The test migration was done a while ago, since then some change have happened in the production Jira and Confluence that are not reflected in the test migration. For the production migration, we will be transferring the content from the day that the migration is agreed to happen.
    3. Matt Watkins Short term existing links will continue to work, long term solution not yet finalized Jessica Gonzalez We will be setting up a re-direct URL from the old Jira and Confluence to the new one. Internal links also will get updated.
    4. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Need a week to evaluate the impacts, vote will be on 18 Jul 2024
    5. 07-18
      1. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : will page id remain same post migration? Matt Watkins : yes, page Ids to remain same post migration. Jessica Gonzalez Space IDs also remain the same. Jira links will change from "jira.o-ran-sc.org" to "lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net"
      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Will attachments such as uploaded recordings, demos, and documents be migrated along with the pages? Matt Watkins : There were some issues regarding data base migration faced in earlier project migration. Differing this topic for next week meeting to be discussed with Jessica in detail. Jessica Gonzalez We were having issues with servers using more than 250GB of data. O-ran should be good on this regards. Attachments will be migrated as well.
      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Are any changes expected in the user profile, such as the username or other details? Matt Watkins : Users are not likely to be affected by this, but Jessica will provide more information and clarity next week. Jessica Gonzalez users are going to be migrated too. The users can login at atlassian.com with their email address.
    6. 08-01 Motion for the migration from David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by John-Paul Lane, No objections motion carried.
    7. 08-08 The migration is done, and some redirection issues are fixed. Sridhar Rao shared the migration feedback collection table: O-RAN-SC-Confluence-Migration - Google Table
    8. 08-15 Matt Watkins mentioned a request from Sridhar Rao, which was to get a number of people's email addresses to be granted Admin rights for new wiki page.
2. Brand Changes
  1. Logo Adoption - Defer to 18 Jul 2024
    1. 07-18 Option 3 was chosen for the logo, based on the votes and preferences received.
  2. Sally working on communications
3. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
    1. 07-18Sagar Arora
      1. Regarding the user story working with NFO: developers have tested the code (link). However, an official announcement has not been made yet, as I am still testing.
      2. Regarding nearRT RIC user story: nearRT RIC could be deployed by nephio using operator.
      3. David Kinsey [AT&T] : Could we have a demo of these user stories during next face 2 face in Oct 2024?
      4. Sagar Arora It will be available by Oct 2024.
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 07-25 Martin Skorupski: PTLs to come up with demos to be planned for next face 2 face.
    2. 08-08 Martin Skorupski Mentioned Alex Stancu (SIM project) is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
    3. 08-15 Martin Skorupski shared the link for release k demos: Release "K" - Requirements and Software Architecture Committee - Confluence (atlassian.net)
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 07-25 bimo fransiscus asisi presented status of OSC labs and Integration plan.
    2. 08-08 Update about the rearrangement of INT pages, the demos and FlexRAN.
    3. 08-22 bimo fransiscus asisi updated the adjustment to fix the topology and shared the link of the OSC Community Lab Topology
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
    1. 08-01 Jackie Huang Presented status of INF in J release and plan for K release.
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
    1. 08-08 abdulwahid.w High level update for RIC project.
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
    1. 08-08 Alex Stancu is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
    1. 08-22 subhash updates for AIML: focus on integration with Non-RT RIC; the model of performance measurement; alignment with direction provided by WG2 specifications.
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
4. Internship updates
  1. 07-25:Sridhar Rao: Applicants were not qualified enough for the activities planned (RIC analysis). Presented new model of working for internship, no change in funding only the way to get student changes. ONF also looking for research activity for evaluation. plan is to collaborate with ONF involving Rimedo labs for research activities. An advisory committee to be formed with ORAN SC PTLs and ONF members which will work closely with Rimedo labs and generating research report by Nov or Dec.
  2. 08-08: It has been kicked off with the Rimedo Labs

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- Next Meeting 29 Aug 2024

2024 08 15

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): WindRiver (Jackie)
Previous scribe:
- 2024 => July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange
- 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson
- 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T
Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	X
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Abdulwahid	X
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
Wind River	Jackie Huang	X	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly	X	Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	X	Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

Review of Today's Agenda
1. Call for August Scribe - Jackie
2. Roll Call
3. Review previous meeting minutes
4. Next Meeting 22 Aug 2024
5. No New Items this week
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
7. Old Business
  1. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments:
2. Decision: 08/08 Motion to Approve Jackie Huang Second: avinash.bhat; No objects; Minutes are Approved
3. Call for August Scribe: Jackie Huang
Release
1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
2. Other
  1. Matt Watkins reported the status of migration from Jenkins Jobs to Github Actions (gha). Open items can be found here. JJ and gha will continue in parallel for a while.
  2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested guidance of where to find a central reference about the gha and link to the repos. Clarified that gha are described at repo level. Documentation available here. Creating a wiki page and FAQ for reference can be considered.
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. No Presentations
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.
    2. 08-08 Discussed about the difference between SCCL and SCCP. Jakub Novy [DTAG] share the update about SCCL process document.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
  4. White Paper
    1. 07-25: Tracy Van Brakle whitepaper on front burner again
  5. Other
    1. 07-25: David Kinsey [AT&T] : Update regarding Bedminster (New Jersey) lab?Tracy Van Brakle: To discuss with David Kinsey [AT&T] and
    2. 07-25: huangjinri@chinamobile.com discussed regarding participation of ORAN in ETSI conference on software and standards.
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
  1. Adoption of Slack
    1. Motion from avinash.bhat on 27 Jun 2024 seconded by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded. No objections motion carried
    2. Motion for RSAC Co-Chairs by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded by avinash.bhat No objections motion carries
    3. Martin Skorupski will create the needed Jira ticket
    4. 07-18 Martin Skorupski created an issue for this task, Matt Watkins yet to create the channel and to provide access to Martin Skorupski to create further channels if needed
  2. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).
    1. Matt Watkins Current version is on dedicated servers for some tools like Confluence and Jira, the new version would be in public cloud
    2. David Kinsey [AT&T] Some of the Jira "Leads" are outdated and need to be corrected. This could be done prior or post migration Jessica Gonzalez : The test migration was done a while ago, since then some change have happened in the production Jira and Confluence that are not reflected in the test migration. For the production migration, we will be transferring the content from the day that the migration is agreed to happen.
    3. Matt Watkins Short term existing links will continue to work, long term solution not yet finalized Jessica Gonzalez We will be setting up a re-direct URL from the old Jira and Confluence to the new one. Internal links also will get updated.
    4. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Need a week to evaluate the impacts, vote will be on 18 Jul 2024
    5. 07-18
      1. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : will page id remain same post migration? Matt Watkins : yes, page Ids to remain same post migration. Jessica Gonzalez Space IDs also remain the same. Jira links will change from "jira.o-ran-sc.org" to "lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net"
      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Will attachments such as uploaded recordings, demos, and documents be migrated along with the pages? Matt Watkins : There were some issues regarding data base migration faced in earlier project migration. Differing this topic for next week meeting to be discussed with Jessica in detail. Jessica Gonzalez We were having issues with servers using more than 250GB of data. O-ran should be good on this regards. Attachments will be migrated as well.
      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Are any changes expected in the user profile, such as the username or other details? Matt Watkins : Users are not likely to be affected by this, but Jessica will provide more information and clarity next week. Jessica Gonzalez users are going to be migrated too. The users can login at atlassian.com with their email address.
    6. 08-01 Motion for the migration from David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by John-Paul Lane, No objections motion carried.
    7. 08-08 The migration is done, and some redirection issues are fixed. Sridhar Rao shared the migration feedback collection table: O-RAN-SC-Confluence-Migration - Google Table
    8. 08-15 Matt Watkins mentioned a request from Sridhar Rao, which was to get a number of people's email addresses to be granted Admin rights for new wiki page.
2. Brand Changes
  1. Logo Adoption - Defer to 18 Jul 2024
    1. 07-18 Option 3 was chosen for the logo, based on the votes and preferences received.
  2. Sally working on communications
3. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
    1. 07-18Sagar Arora
      1. Regarding the user story working with NFO: developers have tested the code (link). However, an official announcement has not been made yet, as I am still testing.
      2. Regarding nearRT RIC user story: nearRT RIC could be deployed by nephio using operator.
      3. David Kinsey [AT&T] : Could we have a demo of these user stories during next face 2 face in Oct 2024?
      4. Sagar Arora It will be available by Oct 2024.
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 07-25 Martin Skorupski: PTLs to come up with demos to be planned for next face 2 face.
    2. 08-08 Martin Skorupski Mentioned Alex Stancu (SIM project) is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
    3. 08-15 Martin Skorupski shared the link for release k demos: Release "K" - Requirements and Software Architecture Committee - Confluence (atlassian.net)
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 07-25 bimo fransiscus asisi presented status of OSC labs and Integration plan.
    2. 08-08 Update about the rearrangement of INT pages, the demos and FlexRAN.
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
    1. 08-01 Jackie Huang Presented status of INF in J release and plan for K release.
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
    1. 08-08 abdulwahid.w High level update for RIC project.
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
4. Internship updates
  1. 07-25:Sridhar Rao: Applicants were not qualified enough for the activities planned (RIC analysis). Presented new model of working for internship, no change in funding only the way to get student changes. ONF also looking for research activity for evaluation. plan is to collaborate with ONF involving Rimedo labs for research activities. An advisory committee to be formed with ORAN SC PTLs and ONF members which will work closely with Rimedo labs and generating research report by Nov or Dec.
  2. 08-08: It has been kicked off with the Rimedo Labs

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- Next Meeting 22 Aug 2024

2024 08 08

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): WindRiver (Jackie)
Previous scribe:
- 2024 => July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange
- 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson
- 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T
Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid	X	Abdulwahid
Orange	Julien Boudani	X
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	X	Ankit Barve
TIM	Andrea Buldorini	X
Wind River	Jackie Huang	X	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly		Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	X	Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

Review of Today's Agenda
1. Call for August Scribe - Jackie
2. Roll Call
3. Review previous meeting minutes
4. Next Meeting 15 Aug 2024
5. No New Items this week
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
7. Old Business
  1. Tooling Changes - Attlassian Migration
  2. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments:
2. Decision: 08/01 Motion to Approve Julien Boudani: Second: Jackie Huang; No objects; Minutes are Approved
3. Call for August Scribe: Jackie Huang
Release
1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
2. Other
  1. Matt Watkins reported the status of migration from Jenkins Jobs to Github Actions (gha). Open items can be found here. JJ and gha will continue in parallel for a while.
  2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested guidance of where to find a central reference about the gha and link to the repos. Clarified that gha are described at repo level. Documentation available here. Creating a wiki page and FAQ for reference can be considered.
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. No Presentations
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.
    2. 08-08 Discussed about the difference between SCCL and SCCP. Jakub Novy [DTAG] share the update about SCCL process document.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
  4. White Paper
    1. 07-25: Tracy Van Brakle whitepaper on front burner again
  5. Other
    1. 07-25: David Kinsey [AT&T] : Update regarding Bedminster (New Jersey) lab?Tracy Van Brakle: To discuss with David Kinsey [AT&T] and
    2. 07-25: huangjinri@chinamobile.com discussed regarding participation of ORAN in ETSI conference on software and standards.
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
  1. Adoption of Slack
    1. Motion from avinash.bhat on 27 Jun 2024 seconded by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded. No objections motion carried
    2. Motion for RSAC Co-Chairs by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded by avinash.bhat No objections motion carries
    3. Martin Skorupski will create the needed Jira ticket
    4. 07-18 Martin Skorupski created an issue for this task, Matt Watkins yet to create the channel and to provide access to Martin Skorupski to create further channels if needed
  2. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).
    1. Matt Watkins Current version is on dedicated servers for some tools like Confluence and Jira, the new version would be in public cloud
    2. David Kinsey [AT&T] Some of the Jira "Leads" are outdated and need to be corrected. This could be done prior or post migration Jessica Gonzalez : The test migration was done a while ago, since then some change have happened in the production Jira and Confluence that are not reflected in the test migration. For the production migration, we will be transferring the content from the day that the migration is agreed to happen.
    3. Matt Watkins Short term existing links will continue to work, long term solution not yet finalized Jessica Gonzalez We will be setting up a re-direct URL from the old Jira and Confluence to the new one. Internal links also will get updated.
    4. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Need a week to evaluate the impacts, vote will be on 18 Jul 2024
    5. 07-18
      1. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : will page id remain same post migration? Matt Watkins : yes, page Ids to remain same post migration. Jessica Gonzalez Space IDs also remain the same. Jira links will change from "jira.o-ran-sc.org" to "lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net"
      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Will attachments such as uploaded recordings, demos, and documents be migrated along with the pages? Matt Watkins : There were some issues regarding data base migration faced in earlier project migration. Differing this topic for next week meeting to be discussed with Jessica in detail. Jessica Gonzalez We were having issues with servers using more than 250GB of data. O-ran should be good on this regards. Attachments will be migrated as well.
      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Are any changes expected in the user profile, such as the username or other details? Matt Watkins : Users are not likely to be affected by this, but Jessica will provide more information and clarity next week. Jessica Gonzalez users are going to be migrated too. The users can login at atlassian.com with their email address.
    6. 08-01 Motion for the migration from David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by John-Paul Lane, No objections motion carried.
    7. 08-08 The migration is done, and some redirection issues are fixed. Sridhar Rao shared the migration feedback collection table: O-RAN-SC-Confluence-Migration - Google Table
2. Brand Changes
  1. Logo Adoption - Defer to 18 Jul 2024
    1. 07-18 Option 3 was chosen for the logo, based on the votes and preferences received.
  2. Sally working on communications
3. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
    1. 07-18Sagar Arora
      1. Regarding the user story working with NFO: developers have tested the code (link). However, an official announcement has not been made yet, as I am still testing.
      2. Regarding nearRT RIC user story: nearRT RIC could be deployed by nephio using operator.
      3. David Kinsey [AT&T] : Could we have a demo of these user stories during next face 2 face in Oct 2024?
      4. Sagar Arora It will be available by Oct 2024.
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 07-25 Martin Skorupski: PTLs to come up with demos to be planned for next face 2 face.
    2. 08-08 Martin Skorupski Mentioned Alex Stancu (SIM project) is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 07-25 bimo fransiscus asisi presented status of OSC labs and Integration plan.
    2. 08-08 Update about the rearrangement of INT pages, the demos and FlexRAN.
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
    1. 08-01 Jackie Huang Presented status of INF in J release and plan for K release.
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
    1. 08-08 abdulwahid.w High level update for RIC project.
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
4. Internship updates
  1. 07-25:Sridhar Rao: Applicants were not qualified enough for the activities planned (RIC analysis). Presented new model of working for internship, no change in funding only the way to get student changes. ONF also looking for research activity for evaluation. plan is to collaborate with ONF involving Rimedo labs for research activities. An advisory committee to be formed with ORAN SC PTLs and ONF members which will work closely with Rimedo labs and generating research report by Nov or Dec.
  2. 08-08: It has been kicked off with the Rimedo Labs

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- Next Meeting 15 Aug 2024

2024 08 01

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): WindRiver (Jackie)
Previous scribe:
- 2024 => July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange
- 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson
- 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T
Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	X
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Abdulwahid
Orange	Julien Boudani	X
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
Wind River	Jackie Huang	X	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly	X	Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	X	Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

Review of Today's Agenda
1. Call for August Scribe - Jackie
2. Roll Call
3. Review previous meeting minutes
4. Next Meeting 08 Aug 2024
5. No New Items this week
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
7. Old Business
  1. Tooling Changes - Attlassian Migration
  2. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments:
2. Decision: 07/25 Motion to Approve Jackie Huang Second Julien Boudani; No objects; Minutes are Approved
3. Call for August Scribe: Jackie Huang
Release
1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
2. Other
  1. Matt Watkins reported the status of migration from Jenkins Jobs to Github Actions (gha). Open items can be found here. JJ and gha will continue in parallel for a while.
  2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested guidance of where to find a central reference about the gha and link to the repos. Clarified that gha are described at repo level. Documentation available here. Creating a wiki page and FAQ for reference can be considered.
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. No Presentations
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
  4. White Paper
    1. 07-25: Tracy Van Brakle whitepaper on front burner again
  5. Other
    1. 07-25: David Kinsey [AT&T] : Update regarding Bedminster (New Jersey) lab?Tracy Van Brakle: To discuss with David Kinsey [AT&T] and
    2. 07-25: huangjinri@chinamobile.com discussed regarding participation of ORAN in ETSI conference on software and standards.
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
  1. Adoption of Slack
    1. Motion from avinash.bhat on 27 Jun 2024 seconded by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded. No objections motion carried
    2. Motion for RSAC Co-Chairs by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded by avinash.bhat No objections motion carries
    3. Martin Skorupski will create the needed Jira ticket
    4. 07-18 Martin Skorupski created an issue for this task, Matt Watkins yet to create the channel and to provide access to Martin Skorupski to create further channels if needed
  2. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).
    1. Matt Watkins Current version is on dedicated servers for some tools like Confluence and Jira, the new version would be in public cloud
    2. David Kinsey [AT&T] Some of the Jira "Leads" are outdated and need to be corrected. This could be done prior or post migration Jessica Gonzalez : The test migration was done a while ago, since then some change have happened in the production Jira and Confluence that are not reflected in the test migration. For the production migration, we will be transferring the content from the day that the migration is agreed to happen.
    3. Matt Watkins Short term existing links will continue to work, long term solution not yet finalized Jessica Gonzalez We will be setting up a re-direct URL from the old Jira and Confluence to the new one. Internal links also will get updated.
    4. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Need a week to evaluate the impacts, vote will be on 18 Jul 2024
    5. 07-18
      1. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : will page id remain same post migration? Matt Watkins : yes, page Ids to remain same post migration. Jessica Gonzalez Space IDs also remain the same. Jira links will change from "jira.o-ran-sc.org" to "lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net"
      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Will attachments such as uploaded recordings, demos, and documents be migrated along with the pages? Matt Watkins : There were some issues regarding data base migration faced in earlier project migration. Differing this topic for next week meeting to be discussed with Jessica in detail. Jessica Gonzalez We were having issues with servers using more than 250GB of data. O-ran should be good on this regards. Attachments will be migrated as well.
      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Are any changes expected in the user profile, such as the username or other details? Matt Watkins : Users are not likely to be affected by this, but Jessica will provide more information and clarity next week. Jessica Gonzalez users are going to be migrated too. The users can login at atlassian.com with their email address.
    6. 08-01 Motion for the migration from David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by John-Paul Lane, No objections motion carried.
2. Brand Changes
  1. Logo Adoption - Defer to 18 Jul 2024
    1. 07-18 Option 3 was chosen for the logo, based on the votes and preferences received.
  2. Sally working on communications
3. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
    1. 07-18Sagar Arora
      1. Regarding the user story working with NFO: developers have tested the code (link). However, an official announcement has not been made yet, as I am still testing.
      2. Regarding nearRT RIC user story: nearRT RIC could be deployed by nephio using operator.
      3. David Kinsey [AT&T] : Could we have a demo of these user stories during next face 2 face in Oct 2024?
      4. Sagar Arora It will be available by Oct 2024.
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 07-25 Martin Skorupski: PTLs to come up with demos to be planned for next face 2 face.
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 07-25 bimo fransiscus asisi presented status of OSC labs and Integration plan.
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
    1. 08-01 Jackie Huang Presented status of INF in J release and plan for K release.
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
4. Internship updates
  1. 07-25:Sridhar Rao: Applicants were not qualified enough for the activities planned (RIC analysis). Presented new model of working for internship, no change in funding only the way to get student changes. ONF also looking for research activity for evaluation. plan is to collaborate with ONF involving Rimedo labs for research activities. An advisory committee to be formed with ORAN SC PTLs and ONF members which will work closely with Rimedo labs and generating research report by Nov or Dec.

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- Next Meeting 08 Aug 2024

2024 07 25

Recording

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Radisys (Ankit)
Previous scribe: 2024 => May: Nokia; April : TIM; March : Docomo; February : DT; January : Orange; 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T
Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane		John Keeney	X
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Abdulwahid	X
Orange	Julien Boudani	X
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
Wind River	Jackie Huang	X	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly		Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat		Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

Review of Today's Agenda
1. Call for July Scribe - Ankit
2. Roll Call
3. Review previous meeting minutes
4. Next Meeting 01 Aug 2024 - Need Scribe for Aug
5. No New Items this week
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
7. Old Business
  1. Tooling Changes - Attlassian Migration
  2. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments:
2. Decision: 07/18 Motion to Approve jboudani Second Ultan.Kelly ; No objects; Minutes are Approved
3. Call for August Scribe: Jackie Huang
Release
1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
  1. AP Review
    1. 06-06: Sridhar Rao Scans are running reports should be out to PTL tomorrow.
    2. 06-20: Sridhar Rao Tagging in progress for the "J" release next week.
    3. 06-20: Sridhar Rao Scans are complete
    4. 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] Release notes are not complete PTLs need to complete those by next week
    5. 06-27: Sunil Singh to finish highlights for RICAPPS
    6. 06-27: Ankit Barve will get with Ganesh Shenbagaraman or Sridhar Rao to assist in providing closing release activities hampered by the problems with his LF account.
    7. 06-27: peng Lu will update the release notes for xFAPI technical review, but note the push to "K" due to the delayed legal review.
    8. 06-27: Sridhar Rao will get with Seshu Kumar Mudiganti to finish SMO highlights
    9. 06-27: Jackie Huang will update the release highlights from the status
    10. 06-27: James Li will get with Weichen Ni to update the Docs and be ready for the release.
    11. 06-27: Checked with PTLs on release readiness. Most are closing out final release activities by COB 6/28.
    12. 06-27: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a motion to approve the release for 6/30, Seconded by jboudani motion was approved.
2. Other
  1. Matt Watkins reported the status of migration from Jenkins Jobs to Github Actions (gha). Open items can be found here. JJ and gha will continue in parallel for a while.
  2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested guidance of where to find a central reference about the gha and link to the repos. Clarified that gha are described at repo level. Documentation available here. Creating a wiki page and FAQ for reference can be considered.
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. No Presentations
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
  4. Upcoming F2F meeting
    1. 06-06: David Kinsey [AT&T] No Demos are scheduled. If we don't have any scheduled then we will cancel the F2F sessions
    2. 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] No Demos were presented. I had to present a release status that was all bad news. Not very comformatable. For October all PTLs should plan in their iteration 2 to have some progression demos. Don't have to be fancy but demonstrate progress.
    3. 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] CVEs were discussed in F2F, grew to 12 that week. Have recruited some resources that know how to close them from Open RAN Summit @ Tapiei
  5. White Paper
    1. 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] Need status on Whitpaper
    2. 06-20: John Keeney (Ericsson EST) While we are inquiring about the whitepaper can we also get an update on SCCL
    3. 06-20: Jakub Novy [DTAG] Status is now target for November train.
    4. 07-25: Tracy Van Brakle whitepaper on front burner again
  6. Other
    1. 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] Some upcoming Org Changes
      1. INT PTL James Li will vacate the PTL position and take up the OSFG Co-Chair for Jinri who announced his resignation
      2. AT&T and China Mobile to Nominate Bimo from NTUST to take up the INT PTL Position
      3. David Kinsey to leave the RSAC co-chair we need a volunteer to take up this position
    2. 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] & Julian Garrett Both agreed that the Open RAN Summit @ Taipei was great
      1. Lots of Demos
      2. Lots of speakers from O-RAN, OSC, Companies Universities.
    3. 07-25: David Kinsey [AT&T] : Update regarding Bedminster (New Jersey) lab?Tracy Van Brakle: To discuss with David Kinsey [AT&T] and
    4. 07-25: huangjinri@chinamobile.com discussed regarding participation of ORAN in ETSI conference on software and standards.
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
  1. Adoption of Slack
    1. Motion from avinash.bhat on 27 Jun 2024 seconded by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded. No objections motion carried
    2. Motion for RSAC Co-Chairs by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded by avinash.bhat No objections motion carries
    3. Martin Skorupski will create the needed Jira ticket
    4. 07-18 Martin Skorupski created an issue for this task, Matt Watkins yet to create the channel and to provide access to Martin Skorupski to create further channels if needed
  2. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).
    1. Matt Watkins Current version is on dedicated servers for some tools like Confluence and Jira, the new version would be in public cloud
    2. David Kinsey [AT&T] Some of the Jira "Leads" are outdated and need to be corrected. This could be done prior or post migration Jessica Gonzalez : The test migration was done a while ago, since then some change have happened in the production Jira and Confluence that are not reflected in the test migration. For the production migration, we will be transferring the content from the day that the migration is agreed to happen.
    3. Matt Watkins Short term existing links will continue to work, long term solution not yet finalized Jessica Gonzalez We will be setting up a re-direct URL from the old Jira and Confluence to the new one. Internal links also will get updated.
    4. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Need a week to evaluate the impacts, vote will be on 18 Jul 2024
    5. 07-18
      1. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : will page id remain same post migration? Matt Watkins : yes, page Ids to remain same post migration. Jessica Gonzalez Space IDs also remain the same. Jira links will change from "jira.o-ran-sc.org" to "lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net"
      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Will attachments such as uploaded recordings, demos, and documents be migrated along with the pages? Matt Watkins : There were some issues regarding data base migration faced in earlier project migration. Differing this topic for next week meeting to be discussed with Jessica in detail. Jessica Gonzalez We were having issues with servers using more than 250GB of data. O-ran should be good on this regards. Attachments will be migrated as well.
      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Are any changes expected in the user profile, such as the username or other details? Matt Watkins : Users are not likely to be affected by this, but Jessica will provide more information and clarity next week. Jessica Gonzalez users are going to be migrated too. The users can login at atlassian.com with their email address.
2. Brand Changes
  1. Logo Adoption - Defer to 18 Jul 2024
    1. 07-18 Option 3 was chosen for the logo, based on the votes and preferences received.
  2. Sally working on communications
3. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
    1. 07-18Sagar Arora
      1. Regarding the user story working with NFO: developers have tested the code (link). However, an official announcement has not been made yet, as I am still testing.
      2. Regarding nearRT RIC user story: nearRT RIC could be deployed by nephio using operator.
      3. David Kinsey [AT&T] : Could we have a demo of these user stories during next face 2 face in Oct 2024?
      4. Sagar Arora It will be available by Oct 2024.
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 07-25 Martin Skorupski: PTLs to come up with demos to be planned for next face 2 face.
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 07-25 bimo fransiscus asisi presented status of OSC labs and Integration plan.
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
4. Internship updates
  1. 07-25:Sridhar Rao: Applicants were not qualified enough for the activities planned (RIC analysis). Presented new model of working for internship, no change in funding only the way to get student changes. ONF also looking for research activity for evaluation. plan is to collaborate with ONF involving Rimedo labs for research activities. An advisory committee to be formed with ORAN SC PTLs and ONF members which will work closely with Rimedo labs and generating research report by Nov or Dec.

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] Need an update on Nephio and how it actually fits into OSC
- 06-20 jboudani Need to get a refresh from Sylva
- 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] At Taipei there is a presentation using Open Mano components for the SMO. We need to see if we can support both an Open Mano and an ONAP based SMO implementations. Seshu will investigate.
- 06-20: Sridhar Rao introduced Sally Cooper who will be helping to support our marketing and communications efforts around the Wiki pages and the white papers.
- 06-27: David Kinsey [AT&T] Nominated Bimo to take over PTL for INT project. Nominations are open, voting set for next meeting 11 Jul 2024
- 06-27: David Kinsey [AT&T] noted nominations still open for RSAC Co-Chair. Encourages those interested to submit their nomination.
- 06-27: avinash.bhat made the suggestion that we open a slack channel. Sridhar Rao confirmed there is budget to cover. Discussion to follow on e-mail with vote on the next meeting 11 Jul 2024
- 06-27: jboudani Sylva presentation, he will be out the next meeting so it will be scheduled the week following that 18 Jul 2024
- 06-27: David Kinsey [AT&T] Still would like a Nephio update but the right people to ask/schedule are not on the call. Will have to work that later.
- 06-27: Sridhar Rao Shared O-RAN SC logo options and identified which one is recommended. He will share the options with the TOC and we will vote on our next meeting 11 Jul 2024
- Next Meeting 01 Aug 2024

2024 07 18

Recording

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Radisys (Ankit)
Previous scribe: 2024 => May: Nokia; April : TIM; March : Docomo; February : DT; January : Orange; 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T
Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	X
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka		Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Abdulwahid	X
Orange	Julien Boudani	X
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
Wind River	Jackie Huang	X	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly	X	Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	X	Peter Moonki Hong

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.

Review of Today's Agenda
1. Call for July Scribe - Ankit
2. Roll Call
3. Review meeting minutes
  1. 07/11 Motion to Approve jboudani Second avinash.bhat ; No objects; Minutes are Approved
4. Next Meeting 25 Jul 2024
5. Presentation from Sylva
  1. 07/11 Presentation on Sylva by Guillaume Nevicato (Orange). presentation link
6. Tooling Changes
7. Brand Changes
8. Update on Nephio
9. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: 07/11 Motion to Approve jboudani Second avinash.bhat ; No objects; Minutes are Approved
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. Presentation from Sylva
2. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
  1. AP Review
    1. 06-06: Sridhar Rao Scans are running reports should be out to PTL tomorrow.
    2. 06-20: Sridhar Rao Tagging in progress for the "J" release next week.
    3. 06-20: Sridhar Rao Scans are complete
    4. 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] Release notes are not complete PTLs need to complete those by next week
    5. 06-27: Sunil Singh to finish highlights for RICAPPS
    6. 06-27: Ankit Barve will get with Ganesh Shenbagaraman or Sridhar Rao to assist in providing closing release activities hampered by the problems with his LF account.
    7. 06-27: peng Lu will update the release notes for xFAPI technical review, but note the push to "K" due to the delayed legal review.
    8. 06-27: Sridhar Rao will get with Seshu Kumar Mudiganti to finish SMO highlights
    9. 06-27: Jackie Huang will update the release highlights from the status
    10. 06-27: James Li will get with Weichen Ni to update the Docs and be ready for the release.
    11. 06-27: Checked with PTLs on release readiness. Most are closing out final release activities by COB 6/28.
    12. 06-27: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a motion to approve the release for 6/30, Seconded by jboudani motion was approved.
  2. Other
    1. Matt Watkins reported the status of migration from Jenkins Jobs to Github Actions (gha). Open items can be found here. JJ and gha will continue in parallel for a while.
    2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested guidance of where to find a central reference about the gha and link to the repos. Clarified that gha are described at repo level. Documentation available here. Creating a wiki page and FAQ for reference can be considered.
3. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
  1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
      1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
      2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
      3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      4. Upcoming F2F meeting
        06-06: David Kinsey [AT&T] No Demos are scheduled. If we don't have any scheduled then we will cancel the F2F sessions
        06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] No Demos were presented. I had to present a release status that was all bad news. Not very comformatable. For October all PTLs should plan in their iteration 2 to have some progression demos. Don't have to be fancy but demonstrate progress.
        06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] CVEs were discussed in F2F, grew to 12 that week. Have recruited some resources that know how to close them from Open RAN Summit @ Tapiei
      5. White Paper
        06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] Need status on Whitpaper
        06-20: John Keeney (Ericsson EST) While we are inquiring about the whitepaper can we also get an update on SCCL
        06-20: Jakub Novy [DTAG] Status is now target for November train.
      6. Other
        06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] Some upcoming Org Changes
        INT PTL James Li will vacate the PTL position and take up the OSFG Co-Chair for Jinri who announced his resignation
        AT&T and China Mobile to Nominate Bimo from NTUST to take up the INT PTL Position
        David Kinsey to leave the RSAC co-chair we need a volunteer to take up this position
        06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] & Julian Garrett Both agreed that the Open RAN Summit @ Taipei was great
        Lots of Demos
        Lots of speakers from O-RAN, OSC, Companies Universities.
4. Tooling Changes
  1. Adoption of Slack
    1. Motion from avinash.bhat on 27 Jun 2024 seconded by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded. No objections motion carried
    2. Motion for RSAC Co-Chairs by David Kinsey [AT&T] Seconded by avinash.bhat No objections motion carries
    3. Martin Skorupski will create the needed Jira ticket
    4. 07-18 Martin Skorupski created an issue for this task, Matt Watkins yet to create the channel and to provide access to Martin Skorupski to create further channels if needed
  2. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).
    1. Matt Watkins Current version is on dedicated servers for some tools like Confluence and Jira, the new version would be in public cloud
    2. David Kinsey [AT&T] Some of the Jira "Leads" are outdated and need to be corrected. This could be done prior or post migration
    3. Matt Watkins Short term existing links will continue to work, long term solution not yet finalized
    4. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Need a week to evaluate the impacts, vote will be on 18 Jul 2024
    5. 07-18
      1. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : will page id remain same post migration? Matt Watkins : yes, page Ids to remain same post migration.
      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Will attachments such as uploaded recordings, demos, and documents be migrated along with the pages? Matt Watkins : There were some issues regarding data base migration faced in earlier project migration. Differing this topic for next week meeting to be discussed with Jessica in detail.
      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) : Are any changes expected in the user profile, such as the username or other details? Matt Watkins : Users are not likely to be affected by this, but Jessica will provide more information and clarity next week.
5. Brand Changes
  1. Logo Adoption - Defer to 18 Jul 2024
    1. 07-18 Option 3 was chosen for the logo, based on the votes and preferences received.
  2. Sally working on communications
6. Standing/old business
  1. Update on Nephio
    1. 07-18Sagar Arora
      1. Regarding the user story working with NFO: developers have tested the code (link). However, an official announcement has not been made yet, as I am still testing.
      2. Regarding nearRT RIC user story: nearRT RIC could be deployed by nephio using operator.
      3. David Kinsey [AT&T] : Could we have a demo of these user stories during next face 2 face in Oct 2024?
      4. Sagar Arora It will be available by Oct 2024.

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] Need an update on Nephio and how it actually fits into OSC
- 06-20 jboudani Need to get a refresh from Sylva
- 06-20: David Kinsey [AT&T] At Taipei there is a presentation using Open Mano components for the SMO. We need to see if we can support both an Open Mano and an ONAP based SMO implementations. Seshu will investigate.
- 06-20: Sridhar Rao introduced Sally Cooper who will be helping to support our marketing and communications efforts around the Wiki pages and the white papers.
- 06-27: David Kinsey [AT&T] Nominated Bimo to take over PTL for INT project. Nominations are open, voting set for next meeting 11 Jul 2024
- 06-27: David Kinsey [AT&T] noted nominations still open for RSAC Co-Chair. Encourages those interested to submit their nomination.
- 06-27: avinash.bhat made the suggestion that we open a slack channel. Sridhar Rao confirmed there is budget to cover. Discussion to follow on e-mail with vote on the next meeting 11 Jul 2024
- 06-27: jboudani Sylva presentation, he will be out the next meeting so it will be scheduled the week following that 18 Jul 2024
- 06-27: David Kinsey [AT&T] Sti

O-RAN SC Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)

Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

TOC Voting Members

TOC Meeting Info

TOC Documents repository

2024 09 12

2024 09 05

2024 08 29

2024 08 22

2024 08 15

2024 08 08

2024 08 01

2024 07 25

2024 07 18