2019 Q4 (Oct, Nov, Dec)
2019 12 18
Recording:
Agenda
Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Lusheng Ji
Roll Call & Quorum Check
*Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance. We have a quorum and can vote on activities.
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
Moved by Jinri, Seconded by Viswa, passed 3/0/0.
Review of Today's Agenda
Jinri requested new agenda item for discussing community contributions too PoC at MWC Barcelona.
Jun Song: procedure for individual company to contribute at MWC?
Jack: open use of O-RAN SC software because it is open source, but nice to know who/how using; but if making claims regarding O-RAN such as compliance, then need permission from O-RAN Alliance.
Jinri: concur with Jack. also can be done by individual company, but we are collecting and coordinating for representing the community under WG1
Jun: customer related, so need to discuss with them.
Jinri: can proceed in parallel, discussing with customer and providing info to the collection table.
Jack: AT&T has 3, 1 live demo and 2 videos
Release Votes and Approval:
Review Bronze
Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
Jinri: regarding the MWC demos: Paul Smith and Jinri are collecting info on MWC demos; two gate points: 12/19 for entering info and preliminary approval, 01/20 for completing preparation and final approval for any PR.
Jack: LF Networking conference April 2020. we will coordinate presentations there.
Jinri: Global plugfest events at NA, EU, Beijing. PR under preparation, will be on wire today, covering O1/A1 PoC, as well as Beijing plugfest. Active attendance: over 70 companies; 200+ attendees; 4 integration groups testing open front haul; WG6 in HW SW decoupling;
Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.
Jinri to send out email.
Action / @Tracy Van Brakle and @Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
Tracy: completed uploading video recording to O-RAN. Need approval to upload to LF wiki.
Jinri will make request to EC tomorrow.
Martin: remove this action item.
Action/ @Former user (Deleted) Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance. This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
Jack: Rittwik on vacation, action item deferred.
Action/ @huangjinri@chinamobile.com provide an answer to @Former user (Deleted) regarding support for O-CU, O-DU. Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
Jack: will be high priority when we come back in Jan. End-to-end use cases require support from O-CU and O-DU. Need PTL commitments.
O-CU PTL: support UE attachment first, challenge for e2e data collection, design in release B.
Work with RSAC to pull this together, to identify which items to complete in B, which to defer.
Same for O-DU's.
Every module to perform some basic self-test, reporting, and communication functions so dashboard reports them as part of the inventory.
From RSAC main ask for O-CU is E2 interface reporting which depends on progress by WG3.
Many software functions can move ahead of spec.
Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.
Will use JIRA more in Release B for reporting and tracking.
Need more participation on cross-project/company activities/contributions. Will ask one ToC member to coordinate inter-project activities.
Action/ PTLs participate in the Bronze planning meetings held twice a week by the RSAC committee. PTLs who are planning to contribute to Bronze must attend.
Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
Maintenance Release
@Former user (Deleted) Test & Integration Planning (INT)
Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
@Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP)
@Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)
@Former user (Deleted) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU)
@Sachin Srivastava O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)
@Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)
@Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)
@Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)
@Xiaohua Zhang Infrastructure (INF)
@Weichen Ni Documentation (DOC)
@John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)
(TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
@Former user (Deleted) Requirements Software Architecture Committee
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
By Jinri: possible contribution to MWC Barcelona
Already covered at item 6 above (marketing)
O-ARN Alliance Face to face meeting:
Jinri: on Monday TSC call, we discussed meeting arrangement but no conclusion yet. F2F to be held Feb 17-21, Paris.
Planning for Next Meeting
Any Other Business (AOB)
Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
2019 12 11
Zoom meeting:
Agenda
Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu
Roll Call & Quorum Check
*Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance. We have a quorum and can vote on activities.
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
Vote to approve minutes for Dec 4, 2019
On motion made by @huangjinri@chinamobile.com
Seconded by @MASAFUMI MASUDA
VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
Review of Today's Agenda
Release Votes and Approval
Added Bronze
Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
Jinri - Making a video that will cover the software community.
Zbynek (PM O-RAN Alliance marketing and communications) wrote a newsletter for the EC meeting. Jinri will attend and will include the Amber release in this newsletter.
Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
Action / @Tracy Van Brakle and @Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
Jinri - 2 plugfest sessions last week organized by Tracy has been recorded. Tracy reported this to EC this morning. Tracy raised whether she can share the video with the SC. Suggested to put it on the o-ran wiki first then decide whether to make it public on the software wiki.
North American and Asian session happening this week.
Preparation work has been done
Tomorrow there will an operator lab tour
Orange, Telecom Italia, Geo, and Sprint will be visiting the lab for the plugfest.
Tomorrow afternoon we arranged a slot to shoot a video for the MWC video.
In the Asian session we prepared 5 integration line. You can understand it as 5 different sets of test and integration.
5 sets of demos integration and test.
We will demonstrate an online show that will be available to public to watch the demo live.
To accomodate time zones morning timeslot will be made convenient to US and afternoon for Europe.
Around 200 attendees.
Keynotes, test and integration results by the group data gates, and round tables.
We also prepared the live broadcast can join via Zoom bridge.
Although in Chinese we provide translation
Next week will be a deep dive sessions.
Anyone who is interested can join us.
A lot of attention is being given to the software community. We need to work with the plugfest attendees how to utilize their feedback and use it.
Action/ @Former user (Deleted) Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance. This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
Started communicating.
Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
Maintenance Release
@Former user (Deleted) Test & Integration Planning (INT)
We will not have TOC meetings the week of December 25 and January 1. These are U.S. holidays.
Concern about PTL participation. We have to grow the community and work towards and end to end system.
The mission is to have the software work across the system. T
Take this time to improve and accomplish the goals of the project.
We will ask each PTL to provide a brief discussion on what each PTL is working on each week.
Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
@Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP)
@Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)
@Former user (Deleted) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU)
@Sachin Srivastava O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)
@Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)
@Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)
@Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)
@Xiaohua Zhang Infrastructure (INF)
@Weichen Ni Documentation (DOC)
@John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)
(TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
@Former user (Deleted) Requirements Software Architecture Committee
Epics are complete for the Bronze release.
Multiple discussions around two use cases.
Traffic sharing
Healthcheck
Rittwik asked about contributions for O-CU.
Action/ @huangjinri@chinamobile.com provide an answer to @Former user (Deleted) regarding support for O-CU, O-DU. Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
Use Samsung as an E2 starter example.
Between now and end of year all PTLs must put the epics into Jira.
In January the TOC calls should refer Jira tickets.
We are ready to release the bronze release document.(Contributions)
Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.
Martin - suggestion to create one common link.
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
Jinri - 5 minutes to introduce the Asian Plugfest and 3 minutes for the O-RAN F2F
Next F2F is in Feb 17 - 22 in Paris. One week after Barcelona meeting.
Daily working sessions with only 3 hours for TOC. Would like to see more time for TOC added to the agenda.
All these sessions happen in parallel. They are across different working groups. Before we used to invite our delegates from other WGs to join. We also want to reach out to have different WGs meet. Example would be Rittwik attending another working group meeting.
Rittwik only drawback is when TOC is going on you miss the parallel sessions.
Rittwik - Raise a concern about the low attendance of PTLs for the Bronze release planning.
It is the end of year holiday season so low attendance is expected this time of year.
Planning for Next Meeting
Any Other Business (AOB)
Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
Votes
The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
Vote to approve minutes for Dec 4, 2019
On motion made by @huangjinri@chinamobile.com
Seconded by @MASAFUMI MASUDA
VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
Actions
Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC when you can not attend the TOC meeting.
Action / @Tracy Van Brakle and @Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
Action/ @Former user (Deleted) Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance. This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
Action/ @huangjinri@chinamobile.com provide an answer to @Former user (Deleted) regarding support for O-CU, O-DU. Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.
2019 12 04
Zoom meeting:
Agenda
Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu
Roll Call & Quorum Check
*Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance. We have a quorum and can vote on activities.
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
Vote to approve minutes for Nov 20, 2019
On motion made by @huangjinri@chinamobile.com
Seconded by @Former user (Deleted)
VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there was a request to update the audio recording. Recording updated Dec 4, 2019
Vote to approve minutes for Nov 27, 2019
On motion made by @huangjinri@chinamobile.com
Seconded by @Former user (Deleted)
VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
Review of Today's Agenda
Release Votes and Approval
Have a wiki link with all the release info in one place (in process)
Vote to accept the license scan and upstream licenses are approved for use. These have been reviewed with LF and are normal.
Vote on the official release of Amber and branches. Vote to approve the branching and release of the Amber software.
Project Readiness for Amber Release. Lusheng asking to accept all the repos on the Project Readiness for Amber Release for the branching of the Amber release.
Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
Action/@huangjinri@chinamobile.com will create a framework for the O-RAN SC marketing plan.
Contact Jinri for details around the marketing plan.
Jinri - On the web page I saw some videos. We really need to take advantage of the videos at the events.
Plugfest Beijing will last two weeks and there is also Barcelona to activate the marketing plan.
Channels to promote our visibility
Press Release
Symposium. - Consisted of key notes and round table for the traditional symposium. Will be in Barcelona this year.
Industry events - Invite key speakers to discuss the key features of O-RAN.
Possible additional channels
O-RAN newsletter internal base of 1200 wiki users, plus 285 subscriptions from web.
Twitter
Promotional Videos
Zbynek Dalecky is the project organizer for the O-RAN Alliance press releases and site.
Do we know where to upload the videos? Do we have a sample place for that?
Action / @Tracy Van Brakle and @Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
Tracy - Plugfest in Beijing and a complimentary meeting in Europe. There is a readout December 5th. I am a member of Paul Smith's team. The EC put on their timeline some blog or press release for the blog and the plugfest the week of December 15.
Martin - Setting up infrastructure and will document our findings. The preparations of such an event makes us exercise.
POCs and plugfests are ongoing. We will be able to do a lot more with the bronze release.
When will the readout be ready?
It's been a challenge. Thursday 9:30 ET USA. We will put the recording on the O-SC wiki as well as the O-RAN wiki.
The North American plugfest should be on everyone's calendar.
Tracy thanked the vendors for their support.
What is relationship between the POC and the Plugfest?
POC in NA and Europe POC is the software management plane. In Beijing it is more the hardware side. They are complimentary.
We will collect all of the screenshots and videos and you and Paul can craft the message.
Action/ @huangjinri@chinamobile.com will add the F2F meeting minutes to the events page. Nov 27, 2019
Action/ @Former user (Deleted) Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance. This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
Rittwik - I still have to work on this.
Action/PTLs update Releasing Amber Tasks and create a short video like OTF by Nov 29, 2019
Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
Project Readiness for Amber Release
We are now in the maintenance release. We are collecting user feedback and entering Jira tickets. Typically in the maintenance window we don't do new development work. We typically try to address the technical debt. This is an opportunity to refine your code.
Project Bronze Release
Epics spreadsheet is on the wiki. Epics have been outlined into high level topics. They are into termination, platform hardening, database related, xApp chaining. Each PTL has to go through the list and put it in jira.
Each PTL must look this spreadsheet and review.
Action/ PTLs bring your objectives and interest to the Bronze release calls and get involved. We need an integrated system so talk to your developers communities, friends, and participants from your companies to get involved to be successful.
@Former user (Deleted) Test & Integration Planning (INT)
Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
@Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP)
@Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)
@Former user (Deleted) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU)
@Sachin Srivastava O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)
@Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)
@Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)
@Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)
@Xiaohua Zhang Infrastructure (INF)
@Weichen Ni Documentation (DOC)
@John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)