2019 04 24

2019 04 24

Recorded zoom meeting

Agenda

  1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) 

  2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

  3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meetings

  4. Review of Today's Agenda

  5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)

  6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)

    1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling

    2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers

    3. Test & Integration Planning

    4. Report Out of Sub-Committees

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

  8. Planning for Next Meeting

  9. Open Discussion

  10. Any Other Business (AOB)

  11. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

Minutes:

  • Introducing Phil Robb VP of Operations for Networking and Orchestrating at the Linux Foundation located in midwestern USA.  Will facilitate initial activities.

  • Farheen and Lusheng are in Jack's organization to support the calls.

  • Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Farheen Cefalu

  • Roll Call & Quorum Check

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

AT&T

Jack Murray Co-Chair

Apr 24, 2019  

 

 

China Mobile

Jinri Huang Co-Chair

Apr 24, 2019 

 

 

Deutsche Telekom 

David Streibl

Apr 24, 2019 

 

 

NTT DOCOMO

Toshiro Kawahara

Apr 24, 2019  

 

 

Orange

Vincent Danno

Apr 24, 2019 

 

 

Verizon

Viswa Kumar

Apr 24, 2019 

 

 

  • Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meetings: 

    • Activities tied directly to ORAN which is the specification charter, license, and filling out the TOC slots.

    • TOC Activities that have to be worked on by this team.

    • Motion to Accept the minutes: 

      • Jack Murray 

      • Vincent Danno

      • Toshiro Kawahara

  • Review of Today's Agenda

  • Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)

Will update wiki page for detailed meeting info: when and Zoom info @Farheen Cefalu Apr 24, 2019 
 Avoid confusion about the two domain names:  oran-osc.org and o-ran-sc.org.  
Action Phil will go ahead and make the change to o-ran-sc.org and move away from oran-osc.org and provide feedback from IT team in two days.   Waiting on reply from IT on a timeline within the next day or two.  Placed as an urgent request.  @Phil Robb
Follow up: Jinri to note onto O-RAN Alliance wiki 
Get ToC members onto the mailing list, get mailing list info to prospective members @Farheen CefaluApr 24, 2019 

Review to-do list items (Jack's email on 04/15)

On the TOC side, here are the next items to get accomplished
Set time for the weekly TOC meeting (David working it)
LF has assigned Phil Robb probb@linuxfoundation.org as our program manager initially. He will eventually assign this to someone else once established. I will send an email shortly.
Clarify the email list and domain names (Phil Robb)
Organize the TOC and establish a community best practices documentation including use of both licenses (Jack Murray)

Recruit a release manager and Establish a timeline I will share a target

Establish sub-committees then recruit PTL and participants

Establish sub-Projects then recruit PTL, Committers, and contributors

Continue to work with LF on infrastructure needs (@Former user (Deleted)  current contact)

O-RAN WG coordination and communications must be an on-going activity

Charter and License for Spec Code Project: To close with legal and Stefan.
ToC membership slot filling.
During O-RAN Alliance TSC meeting last Wed regarding approvals for Lenovo and Nokia, we were asked to provide clarification on criteria and guideline on ToC member recommendation on O-RAN Alliance wiki.  Jinri proposed text.

Whether to discuss Intel and Radisys and put in the same proposal with Lenovo and Nokia to TOC.

  • Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)

    • Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling

    • Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers

    • Test & Integration Planning

    • Report Out of Sub-Committees

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

  • Planning for Next Meeting

    • Next week is May 1 which is a day off in most countries. 

      • Vincent Danno can make it. 

      • Jinri can also make it.  

      • Jack planning to attend.  Quorum reached 50% therefore will hold meeting

  • Open Discussion

  • Any Other Business (AOB)

  • Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

    • Resolutions 

      • We have a timeline for A

      • Vincent volunteered to lead the effort to form subcommittees

      • Jinri volunteered to lead project 

      • Jack volunteered to recommend

        • best practices

        • licenses

        • software agreements

    • New Actions

    • We need a naming convention for major release instead of calling them "A", "B", "C", etc... release. 

    • Change of domain name. 

    • Complete goals for M0

    • We need a lead for communications to the working groups.

      • add ORAN working group liaison

    • This meeting is open to everyone.  Please invite people to the meeting and encourage them to get involved.

    • Finish the license, charter, and naming the TOC members. 

    • Target for June release. 

  • Closed 9:04 AM EDT 2019/04/24