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2024 Q1 (Jan, Feb, Mar)

2024 Q1 (Jan, Feb, Mar)

Owned by John-Paul Lane
Oct 10, 2024
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2024 03 28

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Link

 

Agenda

  • Call for scribe (minutes owner): Masahiro Fujii (NTT DOCOMO) 

  • Previous scribe: 2024 => 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: Radisys

  • Roll Call & Quorum Check 

 

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

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

 

 

 

Ericsson

John-Paul Lane

 

John Keeney

X

NTT DOCOMO

Masahiro Fuji

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

 

Baruch Friedman

 

Samsung

Avinash Bhat

 

Peter Moonki Hong

 

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

  1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

    1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting 2024-03-21 : Motion proposed Jinri by and seconded Julien by motion was approved on the premise that the some correction mentioned in the meeting would be made.

  2. Review of Today's Agenda

    1. ONE summit

    2. POWDER

    3. Project report

  3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items

    1. 01-04: No New Items this week

    2. 01-11: Update from Nephio on integration activity: Sagar Arora

      1. 03-28: How to make the SMO project tracking transparent: Sagar Arora 

    3. 01-11: Update on candidates for ODULOW PTL

    4. 03-07: No New Items this week

  4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

    1. AP Review

    2. 02-01: Maintenance Release set for next week TOC 08 Feb 2024

    3. 03-21: Sridhar Rao peresented the potential changes of the release regarding the gha-migration topic, which had revied super comitters (LINK). These changes are aproved: Motion proposed David was approved without objection.

  5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 

    1. OSFG discussions  huangjinri@chinamobile.com 

      1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:

        1. 02-01: WG10 working on process definition for ORAN. 3 activates planned for F2F - developing the process together with OSFG (outline, what are the steps, responsibilities; not necessarily the document itself), informing WGs about the changes, presenting to TSC. 

      2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio

        1. 02-01: Sagar Arora: in the SMO call this week, presentation about NF orchestration using SMO shown. AP Seshu Kumar Mudiganti to upload the ppt to the TOC documents.

        2. 02-15: SMO integration in Nephio: approved this week, there are already volunteers willing to working on that. It will be implemented in OSC and then ported to Nephio. J release a Nephio rel 3 are at the similar time, which is good.

        3. 02-15: xApp deployment through Nephio usecase presented by Neman Gupta from Samsung. Seshu Kumar Mudiganti to upload the doc to the TOC documents. Messaging from WG6 should be considered.

      3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.

      4. Upcoming F2F meeting

      5. Other

        1. 03-07: The draft of OSC and POWDER joint news quotes for review. The contents should be gone through the O-RAN agenda before TSC. James Li will dubble-check intention of the news, and Tracy Van Brakle will check it with PR point of view.

        2. 03-14: Reagarding POWDER, James Li mentioned about the situation of going through process. The process has been started and feedback is being collected,

        3. 03-21: Reagarding POWDER, James Li mentioned that the process is still on reviewing of OSC.

        4. 03-28: Reagarding POWDER, it was still under reviewing. After the review, the document would be publised on the website. 

  6. ,Standing/old business

  1. OSC Lab

    1. 02-01: East cost lab still down, Bedminster may stay down and we may move to Rutgers in New Jersey. David Kinsey [AT&T] working on that, alignment calls planned.

    2. 03-14: OSC Taiwan Lab Update

      1. O DU High "J" release status has been presented by Ankit Barve. Discussions were held on about nFAP and the status of debugging issues.

    • Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 

      1. 02-01: PLTs to fill the project goals/features for J Release which could be presented during F2F.

      2. 02-08: Rittwik Jana highlights for J release (except O-DU low) are finalized

    • Project reports (by features) (Note: From Aug. 3, it is decided that Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features)

  • Lab updates, lijian56

    • 03-21: Bimo NTUST presented situation of OSC ODU integration with TM500 RUSIM. The status is pending since O-DU had a issue on statice compression mode while RUSIM does not support uncompressed or dynamic compression mode. There was a discussion about the need to integrate the latest software. 

    • 03-28: Meetings was being held to move the integration testing forward.

    • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan

      • 03-28:  The project was the phase of starting development.  Sagar Arora would present the detail in the next meeting, including how to make project tracking transparent.

    • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti 

    • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy

    • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu

      • 02-01: Energy savings dataset from Viavi - it is acceptable to encrypt it and let Viavi control the password. Process to request the dataset/password to be sorted. Help from Alex Stancu needed.

    • Near RT RIC PTL

      • 02-15: Abdulwahid (Wahid) introduced himself as a candidate for new RT-RIC PTL role. David Kinsey [AT&T]  asked Wahid to stand in the role of PTL during the official process. Vote day will be 29.2.

      • 02-29: No other candidate besides Abdulwahid. Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com and seconded by jboudani , motion was approved without objection. 

  1. Any Other Business (AoB)

  • balaji varadaraju N.K. Shankaranarayanan Possible confusion with link used to join (Message: "Host has not started the meeting")

    • make sure to use the correect Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/6540568082 

    • (Old link is still shown Group Email Notification)

    • 01-11: Modify Calendar Permissions TOC/RSAC bridges; Hostcode distribution

    • 02-01: info.yaml updated with Near-RIC committer changes over last week. No action needed.

    • 02-15: Thank you, Thoralf Czichy , for all your contributions as PTL!

    • 02-15: Deutsche Telekom TOC alternate representative removed.

    • One Summit

      • 02-15: One Summit: Half-day workshop "OpenGovCon: 6G Innovation Day" focusing on future RAN planned on Apr 29, 30 and May 1st at San Jose, Sridhar Rao will share more info and promote O-RAN OSC at booth there. Support from other TOC members requested.

      • 02-15: Abdulwahid (Wahid) introduced himself as a candidate for new RT-RIC PTL role. David Kinsey [AT&T]  asked Wahid to stand in the role of PTL during the official process. Vote day will be 29.2.

      • 02-29: David Kinsey [AT&T] is in favor to have the collocated event at One summit. huangjinri@chinamobile.com and OpenAir Interface supports the idea.

      • 02-29: We need to ensure speakers.  David Kinsey [AT&T] will reach to OpenAir Interface to discuss if he can support this.

      • 02-29: Sridhar Rao - the latest date to have the speakers list is 20.3. to have time for marketing.

      • 02-29: we need to be sure that we can collect speakers and topics for 1/2 day agenda.

    • OSC half-day workshop (co-located with ONE SUMMIT)

      • 03-07: OpenAir Interface presents tentative plan of the workshop. Potential title of workshop, programs, speakes have been discussed.  David Kinsey [AT&T] will send out email to discuss futher.

      • 03-14:  Potential programs and speakers have been discussed. The title and subtitle of workshop was approved as "Accelerating the Open and Smart RAN, (subtitle) Open source enablers for the O-RAN Reference Design" : Motion proposed David was approved without objection.

      • 03-21: OpenAir Interfacementioned the state of preparation for the workshop. Some speakers will be confirmed by next week.  Speakers were required to upload bios and pictures. 

      • 03-28: The state of preparation for the workshop was discussed. The mailing list of speakers for easy communication was prepaired. Sridhar Rao would send e-mail summarizing the information necessary for workshop participants later. 

    • Super committer permission

      • 02-29: announcement from release engineering about need to implement the super committer permissions.

      • 02-29: needed because of the shift from Jenkins to Gitlab Actions. Permission needed for testing in production.

      • 02-29: John Keeney (Ericsson EST) supports the idea. No strong pushback from any other PTLs. 

      • 02-29: Jessica Gonzalez will prepare a proposal for next TSC, we need 2 people release engineering team + 2 from the community. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) and  Martin Skorupski volunteer.

      • 03-07:  Jessica and Matthew from LF, and John and Martin from OSC have been approved as super commiters (Link)  : Motion proposed David by and seconded Julien by motion was approved without objection.

    •  CVE

      • 03-07: How to handle CVEs in O-RAN SC have been discussed.  David Kinsey [AT&T] concerns to record volunerabilities in a pulic database and mentioned about security requirements. Revisit in the next call. 

      • 03-14: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned about discussions of the security requirement 

    • Contacts

      • 03-14: NOKIA alternate contact changed: Thoralf Czichy → Abdulwahid

    • Intellegence perspective on gap analysis between 3GPP and O-RAN  

  1. Meeting Summary and Closure

  • Next Meeting 2024/04/4.

2024 03 21

Recording 

Meeting Recording: LinkLink

 

Agenda

  • Call for scribe (minutes owner): Masahiro Fujii (NTT DOCOMO) 

  • Previous scribe: 2024 => 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: Radisys

  • Roll Call & Quorum Check 

 

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

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

Masahiro Fuji

X

Minami Ishii

 

Nokia

Arunkumar Halebid

 

Abdulwahid

X

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

X

Baruch Friedman

 

Samsung

Avinash Bhat

X

Peter Moonki Hong

 

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

  1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

    1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting 2024-03-14 : Motion proposed Avinash by and seconded Julien by motion was approved without objection.

  2. Review of Today's Agenda

    1. ONE summit

    2. POWDER

    3. Project report

  3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items

    1. 01-04: No New Items this week

    2. 01-11: Update from Nephio on integration activity: Sagar Arora

    3. 01-11: Update on candidates for ODULOW PTL

    4. 03-07: No New Items this week

  4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

    1. AP Review

    2. 02-01: Maintenance Release set for next week TOC 08 Feb 2024

    3. 03-21: Sridhar Rao peresented the potential changes of the release regarding the gha-migration topic, which had revied super comitters (LINK). These changes are aproved: Motion proposed David was approved without objection.

  5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 

    1. OSFG discussions  huangjinri@chinamobile.com 

      1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:

        1. 02-01: WG10 working on process definition for ORAN. 3 activates planned for F2F - developing the process together with OSFG (outline, what are the steps, responsibilities; not necessarily the document itself), informing WGs about the changes, presenting to TSC. 

      2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio

        1. 02-01: Sagar Arora: in the SMO call this week, presentation about NF orchestration using SMO shown. AP Seshu Kumar Mudiganti to upload the ppt to the TOC documents.

        2. 02-15: SMO integration in Nephio: approved this week, there are already volunteers willing to working on that. It will be implemented in OSC and then ported to Nephio. J release a Nephio rel 3 are at the similar time, which is good.

        3. 02-15: xApp deployment through Nephio usecase presented by Neman Gupta from Samsung. Seshu Kumar Mudiganti to upload the doc to the TOC documents. Messaging from WG6 should be considered.

      3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.

      4. Upcoming F2F meeting

      5. Other

        1. 03-07: The draft of OSC and POWDER joint news quotes for review. The contents should be gone through the O-RAN agenda before TSC. James Li will dubble-check intention of the news, and Tracy Van Brakle will check it with PR point of view.

        2. 03-14: Reagarding POWDER, James Li mentioned about the situation of going through process. The process has been started and feedback is being collected,

        3. 03-21: Reagarding POWDER, James Li mentioned that the process is still on reviewing of OSC.

  6. ,Standing/old business

  1. OSC Lab

    1. 02-01: East cost lab still down, Bedminster may stay down and we may move to Rutgers in New Jersey. David Kinsey [AT&T] working on that, alignment calls planned.

    2. 03-14: OSC Taiwan Lab Update

      1. O DU High "J" release status has been presented by Ankit Barve. Discussions were held on about nFAP and the status of debugging issues.

    • Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 

      1. 02-01: PLTs to fill the project goals/features for J Release which could be presented during F2F.

      2. 02-08: Rittwik Jana highlights for J release (except O-DU low) are finalized

    • Project reports (by features) (Note: From Aug. 3, it is decided that Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features)

  • Lab updates, lijian56

    • 03-21: Bimo NTUST presented situation of OSC ODU integration with TM500 RUSIM. The status is pending since O-DU had a issue on statice compression mode while RUSIM does not support uncompressed or dynamic compression mode. There was a discussion about the need to integrate the latest software. 

    • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan

    • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti 

    • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy

    • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu

    • 02-01: Energy savings dataset from Viavi - it is acceptable to encrypt it and let Viavi control the password. Process to request the dataset/password to be sorted. Help from Alex Stancu needed.

    • Near RT RIC PTL

      • 02-15: Abdulwahid (Wahid) introduced himself as a candidate for new RT-RIC PTL role. David Kinsey [AT&T]  asked Wahid to stand in the role of PTL during the official process. Vote day will be 29.2.

      • 02-29: No other candidate besides Abdulwahid. Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com and seconded by jboudani , motion was approved without objection. 

  1. Any Other Business (AoB)

  • balaji varadaraju N.K. Shankaranarayanan Possible confusion with link used to join (Message: "Host has not started the meeting")

    • make sure to use the correect Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/6540568082 

    • (Old link is still shown Group Email Notification)

    • 01-11: Modify Calendar Permissions TOC/RSAC bridges; Hostcode distribution

    • 02-01: info.yaml updated with Near-RIC committer changes over last week. No action needed.

    • 02-15: Thank you, Thoralf Czichy , for all your contributions as PTL!

    • 02-15: Deutsche Telekom TOC alternate representative removed.

    • One Summit

      • 02-15: One Summit: Half-day workshop "OpenGovCon: 6G Innovation Day" focusing on future RAN planned on Apr 29, 30 and May 1st at San Jose, Sridhar Rao will share more info and promote O-RAN OSC at booth there. Support from other TOC members requested.

      • 02-15: Abdulwahid (Wahid) introduced himself as a candidate for new RT-RIC PTL role. David Kinsey [AT&T]  asked Wahid to stand in the role of PTL during the official process. Vote day will be 29.2.

      • 02-29: David Kinsey [AT&T] is in favor to have the collocated event at One summit. huangjinri@chinamobile.com and OpenAir Interface supports the idea.

      • 02-29: We need to ensure speakers.  David Kinsey [AT&T] will reach to OpenAir Interface to discuss if he can support this.

      • 02-29: Sridhar Rao - the latest date to have the speakers list is 20.3. to have time for marketing.

      • 02-29: we need to be sure that we can collect speakers and topics for 1/2 day agenda.

    • OSC half-day workshop (co-located with ONE SUMMIT)

      • 03-07: OpenAir Interface presents tentative plan of the workshop. Potential title of workshop, programs, speakes have been discussed.  David Kinsey [AT&T] will send out email to discuss futher.

      • 03-14:  Potential programs and speakers have been discussed. The title and subtitle of workshop was approved as "Accelerating the Open and Smart RAN, (subtitle) Open source enablers for the O-RAN Reference Design" : Motion proposed David was approved without objection.

      • 03-21: OpenAir Interfacementioned the state of preparation for the workshop. Some speakers will be confirmed by next week.  Speakers were required to upload bios and pictures. 

    • Super committer permission

      • 02-29: announcement from release engineering about need to implement the super committer permissions.

      • 02-29: needed because of the shift from Jenkins to Gitlab Actions. Permission needed for testing in production.

      • 02-29: John Keeney (Ericsson EST) supports the idea. No strong pushback from any other PTLs. 

      • 02-29: Jessica Gonzalez will prepare a proposal for next TSC, we need 2 people release engineering team + 2 from the community. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) and  Martin Skorupski volunteer.

      • 03-07:  Jessica and Matthew from LF, and John and Martin from OSC have been approved as super commiters (Link)  : Motion proposed David by and seconded Julien by motion was approved without objection.

    •  CVE

      • 03-07: How to handle CVEs in O-RAN SC have been discussed.  David Kinsey [AT&T] concerns to record volunerabilities in a pulic database and mentioned about security requirements. Revisit in the next call. 

      • 03-14: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned about discussions of the security requirement 

    • Contacts

      • 03-14: NOKIA alternate contact changed: Thoralf Czichy → Abdulwahid

  1. Meeting Summary and Closure

  • Next Meeting 2024/03/28.

2024 03 14

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Link

 

Agenda

  • Call for scribe (minutes owner): Masahiro Fujii (NTT DOCOMO) 

  • Previous scribe: 2024 => 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: Radisys

  • Roll Call & Quorum Check 

 

Company

Contact Name

Attendance