Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

2025 01 16

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

• Scribe: Ultan.Kelly 
• Previous scribe: 
  • 2025 => January: Viavi; 
  • 2024 => December: Orange; October: Ericsson, 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

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

1. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. Roll Call
   2. Review previous meeting minutes  (Jan 6th)
   3. Next Meeting 23 Jan 2025
   4. New Items: 
   5. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
   6. Old Business
      1. Project Updates
   7. AoB Future New Agenda Items

2. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Comments:

   2. Decision:  Motion to Approve Julian Boudani; Seconded by Andrea Buldorini: No Objections. Minutes for 01/09/2025 Approved.

3. Release
   1. 01-16: Press Release about K Release to be approved. Waiting for individual companies to get their internal PR approval

   2. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

      1. 01-09: Sridhar Rao Most of the Checklist is complete. A Couple of outliers which should be complete today.
         1. Branching for ODUHIGH
         2. A couple of Projects for Release Notes: PTL are already engaged
         3. Sally Cooper working on PR statement for TSC to approve, if not then will use previous blog method for release communications.
         4. Sridhar Rao Will provide either PR for TSC to approve for TSC status report on 01-10 or we will use the blog method

      2. 19-12: Matt Watkins Gerrit software upgrade had to be rolled back and the maintenance overran by ~an hour. Will be run again during the vacation period.

      3. 19-12: K-Release timeline disucssed and release Approved. One remark : RIC APP project may be ready for the maintenance release.

      4. 12-12: Matt Watkins Upgrade Gerrit and restart Jenkins Tuesday 10AM to 11AM (message will be send to the slack channel).

      5. 12-12: Sridhar Rao & David Kinsey [AT&T] K-release => some highlights need to be populated. Tagging will be done on the 19th of december (PTLs to get the OK that

      6. hey are ready for tagging). Final realease ready before the end of the year. But voting will be on the 9th of January.

      7. 12-05: Sridhar Rao initiated a request for security scanning, will complete it and send the report. The release probably won't happen until January 9.

   3. Other
      1. 01-16: Maintenance Release noted to be on track, specifically AI/ML release and RIC Updates
      2. 01-09: Maintenance Release:
         1. AIMLFW: Unit Test Coverage increase/minor bug fixes
         2. SIM: New Python Simulator, some hicups in the Repo requires some correction.
         3. RICPLT: Conflict Manager Phase 1 missed K release but will likely be in the Maintenance release
4. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items 
   1. 01-16: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: To be approved by the EC and then sent back to the LFN.
   2. 01-09: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: work still in progress on next weeks OSFG agenda. James will provide David with latest draft to try and expedite changes.
   3. 12-19: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance : work in progress with remarks from OSFG expected in preparation of the press release. We have some wordings concern about OSC present in the MoU. We need to confirm it before publishing it. OSC was already using ONAP Code and recently we are also working with Nephio. We are not happy with the statement that may be understood like "OSC should part of LFN". The MoU should be high level and not going specifically focusing on topics like Security (which is already known point for OSC). James Li will send an email to OSFG.
   4. 12-05: Memorandum of understanding between O-RAN and LFN is under preparation with OSFG
   5. 12-05: Letter of intent between AT&T and O-RAN regarding the funding of the lab. AT&T will send out the purchase orders for the tools. 
   6. 12-12: Part of the budget planned for this year (VIAVI) and a second wave is next year (Keysight). O-RAN is funding, AT&T is purshacing. Adjustment of the End User License Agreement to authorize the tools .
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
   1. OSFG discussions  huangjinri@chinamobile.com 
      1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
         1. 01-16: Discussion about Process. Publication release process Jakob and Martin reviewed. @Jinri to add an agenda item for the TSC Opening Session. David, Jakob, Jinri, Martin to come up with wording. SCCL Process to be adopted. 
         2. 01-09: O-RAN Process being submitted to OCOP. Need to understand how publication to OSC occurs.
      2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
      3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      4. 01-16: F2F Meeting planning in progress. Lobby Demo needs to be written up to be approved by EC for meeting next Wednesday. @Jinri Huang to help with the write up. Martin And Sridhar to provide feedback. David referenced the O-RAN Handbook section 2.4.2.2 for guidelines. Demo name to be confirmed along the lines of 'OAI/OSC Integration' with DU/CU/SMO with configurations on DU, O1 Get Request to CU and OFH M-Plane
      5. Other
6. Old Business
   1. Tooling Changes
   2. Project Updates
      1. Update on Nephio
      2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski 
         1. 01-16 Bottleneck bt. FlexRan and TM500. Bimo was in touch with the RSAC but needs to synch up with Intel about configuration (Frequency and compression bit).. Next step is to get working TM500 configuration. gNB configuration. What's difference. Test each component or move on from configuration that was successful (Step 0 - go back to last working good test configuration and repeat it) OAI gNB with TM500 OSC gNB configurtion. ODU-Hi - xFAPI - ODU-Lo. 
         2. 01-09 There might be an OSC/OAI integration demo in the F2F lobby
         3. 01-09 There are a couple of demos that weren't ready for Oct F2F which will be presented in March F2F. Might only need 1 session.
         4. 01-09 Would like Sridhar Rao to be invited to March F2F OSFG/OSC sessions. He will need a visa so we need to start this soon.
      3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi 
         1. 01-09: Ray-Guang Cheng: Problem with integrated O-DU not communicating with TM-500. David Kinsey [AT&T]:Need project help to debug. RSAC to help do incremental builds to identify when disconnect occurs: 1) ODULOW → TM500 2) xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500 5) ODUHIGH->xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500. Need to isolate since all three components indicate they don't have a defect but integrated build doesn't work.
         2. 01-09: bimo fransiscus asisi: Need ASN1 fix. abdulwahid.w: Nokia has a resource but haven't reached out since new year. Wahid will get a status.
      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 
   3. Internship updates

       8. Meeting Summary and Closure

• •  Closed action re: OSFG about MoU between O-RAN Alliance and LFN
  • Announcements 
    • RIC Analysis by pHD student to be released in late January or early Feb. Final Draft to be reviewed. Contact Sridhar Rao to be in the review loop
    • Lunar new-year holidays planned between 24th January to 3rd Feb and will affect attendance of next meetings
  • Next Meeting 23 Jan 2025

2025 01 09

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

• Call for scribe: David Kinsey [AT&T]  
• Previous scribe: 
  • 2025 => January: Viavi; 
  • 2024 => December: Orange; October: Ericsson, 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

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

1. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. Roll Call
   2. Review previous meeting minutes  (December 19th)
   3. Next Meeting 16 Jan 2025
   4. New Items: 
   5. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
   6. Old Business
      1. Project Updates
   7. AoB Future New Agenda Items

2. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Comments:

   2. Decision:  Motion to Approve Julien Boudani (Orange); Second Ankit Barve : No Objections. Minutes for 12/19/2024 Approved.

   3. Call for January Scribe:  Viavi

3. Release

   1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

      1. 01-09: Sridhar Rao Most of the Checklist is complete. A Couple of outliers which should be complete today.
         1. Branching for ODUHIGH
         2. A couple of Projects for Release Notes: PTL are already engaged
         3. Sally Cooper working on PR statement for TSC to approve, if not then will use previous blog method for release communications.
         4. Sridhar Rao Will provide either PR for TSC to approve for TSC status report on 01-10 or we will use the blog method

      2. 19-12: Matt Watkins Gerrit software upgrade had to be rolled back and the maintenance overran by ~an hour. Will be run again during the vacation period.

      3. 19-12: K-Release timeline disucssed and release Approved. One remark : RIC APP project may be ready for the maintenance release.

      4. 12-12: Matt Watkins Upgrade Gerrit and restart Jenkins Tuesday 10AM to 11AM (message will be send to the slack channel).

      5. 12-12: Sridhar Rao & David Kinsey [AT&T] K-release => some highlights need to be populated. Tagging will be done on the 19th of december (PTLs to get the OK that

      6. hey are ready for tagging). Final realease ready before the end of the year. But voting will be on the 9th of January.

      7. 12-05: Sridhar Rao initiated a request for security scanning, will complete it and send the report. The release probably won't happen until January 9.

   2. Other
      1. 01-09: Maintenance Release:
         1. AIMLFW: Unit Test Coverage increase/minor bug fixes
         2. SIM: New Python Simulator, some hicups in the Repo requires some correction.
         3. RICPLT: Conflict Manager Phase 1 missed K release but will likely be in the Maintenance release
4. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items 
   1. 01-09: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: work still in progress on next weeks OSFG agenda. James will provide David with latest draft to try and expedite changes.
   2. 12-19: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance : work in progress with remarks from OSFG expected in preparation of the press release. We have some wordings concern about OSC present in the MoU. We need to confirm it before publishing it. OSC was already using ONAP Code and recently we are also working with Nephio. We are not happy with the statement that may be understood like "OSC should part of LFN". The MoU should be high level and not going specifically focusing on topics like Security (which is already known point for OSC). James Li will send an email to OSFG.
   3. 12-05: Memorandum of understanding between O-RAN and LFN is under preparation with OSFG
   4. 12-05: Letter of intent between AT&T and O-RAN regarding the funding of the lab. AT&T will send out the purchase orders for the tools. 
   5. 12-12: Part of the budget planned for this year (VIAVI) and a second wave is next year (Keysight). O-RAN is funding, AT&T is purshacing. Adjustment of the End User License Agreement to authorize the tools .
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
   1. OSFG discussions  huangjinri@chinamobile.com 
      1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
         1. 01-09: O-RAN Process being submitted to OCOP. Need to understand how publication to OSC occurs.
      2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
      3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      4. Other
6. Old Business
   1. Tooling Changes
   2. Project Updates
      1. Update on Nephio
      2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski 
         1. 01-09 There might be an OSC/OAI integration demo in the F2F lobby
         2. 01-09 There are a couple of demos that weren't ready for Oct F2F which will be presented in March F2F. Might only need 1 session.
         3. 01-09 Would like Sridhar Rao to be invited to March F2F OSFG/OSC sessions. He will need a visa so we need to start this soon.
      3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi 
         1. 01-09: Ray-Guang Cheng: Problem with integrated O-DU not communicating with TM-500. David Kinsey [AT&T]:Need project help to debug. RSAC to help do incremental builds to identify when disconnect occurs: 1) ODULOW → TM500 2) xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500 5) ODUHIGH->xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500. Need to isolate since all three components indicate they don't have a defect but integrated build doesn't work.
         2. 01-09: bimo fransiscus asisi: Need ASN1 fix. abdulwahid.w: Nokia has a resource but haven't reached out since new year. Wahid will get a status.
      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 
   3. Internship updates

       8. Meeting Summary and Closure

• • Action point: To check with OSFG about MoU between O-RAN Alliance and LFN
  • K-release Approved
  • Next Meeting 16 Jan 2025

2024 12 19

Recording 

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner):  Julien Boudani (Orange)
• Previous scribe: Link
  • 2025 => January: TBD
  • 2024 => December: Orange; October: Ericsson, 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

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

1. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. Roll Call
   2. Review previous meeting minutes  (December 12th)
   3. Next Meeting 09 Jan 2025
   4. New Items: 
      1. 11-14: David Kinsey [AT&T] is not available to chair the November 14th TOC meeting. James Li hosted the meeting  on behalf of @Jinri
   5. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
   6. Old Business
      1. Project Updates
   7. AoB Future New Agenda Items

2. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Comments:

   2. Decision:  Motion to Approve jboudani ; Second : Ankit Barve. No objections; Minutes are Approved

   3. Call for November Scribe:  Julien Boudani (Orange) in the role for November 7th meeting only.

3. Release

   1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

      1. 19-12: Matt Watkins Gerrit software upgrade had to be rolled back and the maintenance overran by ~an hour. Will be run again during the vacation period.

      2. 19-12: K-Release timeline disucssed and release Approved. One remark : RIC APP project may be ready for the maintenance release.
      3. 12-12: Matt Watkins Upgrade Gerrit and restart Jenkins Tuesday 10AM to 11AM (message will be send to the slack channel).
      4. 12-12: Sridhar Rao & David Kinsey [AT&T] K-release => some highlights need to be populated. Tagging will be done on the 19th of december (PTLs to get the OK that they are ready for tagging). Final realease ready before the end of the year. But voting will be on the 9th of January.
      5. 12-05: Sridhar Rao initiated a request for security scanning, will complete it and send the report. The release probably won't happen until January 9.
      6. 11-07: Migrating the C implementation of our “O1 Simulator” (sim/o1-interface repository) into a Python version, to make it more accessible to developers and also to simplify the architecture. To keep both repos active for the K release, and then archive the old C implementation going forward, since we want to maintain only this new version. initial Committers : Alex Stancu. Approved
   2. Other
4. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items 
   1. 19-12: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance : work in progress with remarks from OSFG expected in preparation of the press release. We have some wordings concern about OSC present in the MoU. We need to confirm it before publishing it. OSC was already using ONAP Code and recently we are also working with Nephio. We are not happy with the statement that may be understood like "OSC should part of LFN". The MoU should be high level and not going specifically focusing on topics like Security (which is already known point for OSC). James Li will send an email to OSFG.
   2. 12-05: Memorandum of understanding between O-RAN and LFN is under preparation with OSFG
   3. 12-05: Letter of intent between AT&T and O-RAN regarding the funding of the lab. AT&T will send out the purchase orders for the tools. 
   4. 12-12: Part of the budget planned for this year (VIAVI) and a second wave is next year (Keysight). O-RAN is funding, AT&T is purshacing. Adjustment of the End User License Agreement to authorize the tools .
   5. 11-21: Martin Skorupski ETSI #SNS4SNS observations
      1. ETSI Basically had four projects. Each with a nice logo and they hosted what they called a Hackfest in which they gave tutorials on how to use the code in those projects.
      2. The Hackfests brought more people in to get more adoption and more participation. They gave everybody a T-Shirt.
      3. During breaks there were 11 demos and poster presentations but the presentation space was quite crowded.
      4. They had one called 5G MAG with the same problems as us with young models and SDO license. For them they found a way to inject the material at runtime.
      5. There seemed to be a lot of interest in SCCL
      6. There were other projects there from LF like Nephio and Camara
   6. 11-21: David Kinsey [AT&T] My observations from ETSI #SNS4SNS
      1. Diversity and Fragmentation are different. Diversity is needed Fragmentation should be avoided a balance is needed.
      2. Positive feedback from ETSI SNS on SCCL, recognize we need to work with 3GPP to even recognize the problem.
      3. We need to find a way to get our software "Trusted"
      4. OSM wants to move from NFV model to an intent based, declarative approach
      5. Nephio was explained, strong dependency on K8s, uses a package artifact specific to Nephio
      6. Some comparisons between 3GPP APIs and Camara APIs.
5. 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. Other
         1. 11-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] in the upcoming next week, a presentation with ETSI about SSL to influence 3GPP and others to use the same mechanism.
         2. 11-07: