2021 09 29

Recording: Zoom recording

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Andrea Buldorini

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x	David Kinsey
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x	James Li
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl		Ondřej Hudousek
   Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	x	John Keeney
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   Nokia	Juha Oravainen	x	Thoralf Czichy
   Orange	William Diego	x	Vincent Danno
   Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Manasi Padhy	x
   TIM	Andrea Buldorini	x	Scarpina Salvatore
   Wind River	Bin Yang	x	Jackie Huang

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes for 09/22/2021 TOC meeting approval: proposed by Andrea, seconded by Juha. The motion is approved 
4. Review of Today's Agenda

5. Release Votes and Approval

   1. AAL project
      1. Action point: Trishan to check if your have to sign a new agreement for the repo if TOC decides on BSD license use. Refer to minutes of previous meeting(s) for details.
      2. Action point: Jack to present the write up about the AAL project  to have a vote.
         1. This was put on the table on 2021-07-07 meeting
         2. Jack: There is discussion ongoing in WG6 and we're still waiting for some aspects that discussion to be resolved. Some clarifications were made but until we get more information we leave this table for now
         3. Update on 08/04/21: This is on hold. WG6 is not having meetings due to vacations. Stage 3 specs are now being targeted for November train. 
         4. Update on 08/18/21: Jack said there is no update and this item continues to be tabled.
         5. Update on 09/01/21: No update in the vacation period. Still waiting for guidance. 
         6. Update on 09/15/21: No update. To be continued.
         7. Update on 09/22/21: No update.
   2. New Repos, Updates and Cleanup 

      1.  Matti proposes the creation of the following new repos for RICAPP:

      2. ric-app/ric-sdk-cpp (Matti Hiltunen )

         1. 09/22/21: Matti proposes the creation of a new repo for RICAPP

            1. Thoralf proposed some changes by email to clarify the description.  It was commented that RIC SDK in O-RAN is still under discussion and it is not clear

            2. Matti will propose a review based on suggestions received.

         2. (update on 09/29/21) A revised proposal was submitted  (see https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/573)

            1. Motion made by Matti, seconded by Juha. Motion is approved.
      3. ric-plt/ricctl (Thoralf Czichy )
         1. new repo proposed for RICPTL project (see https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/571)

            1. Principle is to reuse CLI implementation from ONAP by reference (no forking). Work is targeting E release with initial set of commands. To be extended in later releases.

         2. Motion made by Juha, seconded by Andrea. Motion is Approved

      4. inf/pti/o2 (Jackie Huang )
         1. a new repo was proposed for INF project (see https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/572)
         2. Motion made by Jackie, seconded by Jinri. Motion is Approved
6. Copyright update
   1. Update from Jack (08/25/21): The SCCL license is posted on the O-RAN website. A separate CLA is required for contribution under SCCL license.
   2. Thoralf asked who is putting the first copy of code from specifications in the repository. Jack confirmed any OSC participant can initiate.
   3. CLA draft is ready and is due for approval from O-RAN. Trishan informed it takes 2 weeks for implementation of new CLA.
   4. Update from Jack (09/01/21): still waiting for feedback from O-RAN Alliance about the material to be used first.
   5. 09/15/21: Jinri provided to O-RAN EC a list of examples for candidate material to be shared under SCCL license. 
   6. 09/29/21: Jack and Jinri will synchup on SCCL licence process with O-RAN legal a dedicated meeting  
7. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. July train has passed IPR review. November train deadline will be slightly shifted to November 24th (WGs approval)

   2. vF2F in October is cancelled. Next (v)F2F will be in February 2022.

   3. Budget review before the next O-RAN board (Trishan de Lanerolle ). If additional resources are needed, to be raised and discussed before submission to EC

8. Old business and Status of Open Action 

   1. "E" Release timeline.
   2. OSC lab in Taiwan (Prof Ray's lab):
      1. Update on 08/25/21: Prof Ray talking to Intel and Viavi. Division of work is not complete till lab is up. 
      2. Potentially integration work can happen in Taiwan lab when sprints complete. By end of the release, they can package it all.
      3. Jack suggested a gradual progression in Taiwan lab with a few modules or blocks being integrated first.
      4. Update on 09/01/21. Rittwik: Prof Ray got in touch with some PTLs. PTLs interested in collaboration may get back to to coordinate with Prof. Ray
      5. Update on 09/08/21. Rittwik: work is still ongoing on lab setup.
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - tabled for D and E, will be re-evaluated for F release.
   4. "F" Release timeline
9. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)

   1. Release Manager Trishan de Lanerolle /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling

   2. Former user (Deleted) Requirements Software Architecture Committee

      1.  OSC lab setup still ongoing. PTP grandmaster deployment and configuration under assessment

      2. Radysis (Manasi) had sent HW/SW requirements for the O-CU. AP. David to check with Rich if this went through.

      3. 09/22/21: Open issue on PM data transfer mechanism from O-DU high. ( Former user (Deleted)/ David Kinsey [AT&T] )
         • update on 09/29/21: still open

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

      1.  (TBD) Integration and Testing (INT)

         1. James Li indicates interest in contributing/leading INT project.  Jack proposes to send the information to the TOC reflector and start a discussion among the interested companies. 

      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC) 

      4. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      7. Former user (Deleted)  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

          1. NETCONF call home procedure was implemented

          2. waiting for YANG model for slicing to be provided in order to start the implementation

          3. E2 simulator: lacking of resources. To check with companies which contributed so far and potential new contributors

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

          1. Upgrade most of the components from Starlingx to align with the latest release 5.0, and to support both kubernetes and openstack as the infrastructure platform
          2. Now most of those components are in a standalone layer meta-starlingx and is has been moved to StarlingX community, which is used as the upstream layer for INF project, so for now, most of the development activity is actually happen in StarlingX community
          3. we have completed and verified for AIO-SX with kubernetes deployment, and AIO-DX deployment is in testing and bug fixing
          4. For O2 interface implementation, request to create a new repo (see above), and is working on the draft of HLD.

      12. Weichen Ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)

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

3. Planning for Next Meeting
   1. Next meeting will be chaired by huangjinri@chinamobile.com. Scribe in October will be Bin Yang (Windriver)

4. Any Other Business (AOB)

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

2021 09 22

Recording: Zoom recording

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Andrea Buldorini

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x	David Kinsey
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x	Ondřej Hudousek
   Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	x	John Keeney
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   Nokia	Juha Oravainen	x	Thoralf Czichy
   Orange	William Diego	x	Vincent Danno
   Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Manasi Padhy	x
   TIM	Andrea Buldorini	x	Scarpina Salvatore
   Wind River	Bin Yang	x	Jackie Huang

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes for 09/15/2021 TOC meeting approval: proposed by Andrea, seconded by David S. Motion approved.
4. Review of Today's Agenda

5. Release Votes and Approval

   1. AAL project
      1. Action point: Trishan to check if your have to sign a new agreement for the repo if TOC decides on BSD license use. Refer to minutes of previous meeting(s) for details.
      2. Action point: Jack to present the write up about the AAL project  to have a vote.
         1. This was put on the table on 2021-07-07 meeting
         2. Jack: There is discussion ongoing in WG6 and we're still waiting for some aspects that discussion to be resolved. Some clarifications were made but until we get more information we leave this table for now
         3. Update on 08/04/21: This is on hold. WG6 is not having meetings due to vacations. Stage 3 specs are now being targeted for November train. 
         4. Update on 08/18/21: Jack said there is no update and this item continues to be tabled.
         5. Update on 09/01/21: No update in the vacation period. Still waiting for guidance. 
         6. Update on 09/15/21: No update. To be continued.
         7. Update on 09/22/21: No update.
   2. Repos Updates and Cleanup 

      1. Trishan: The following repos were submitted for TOC consideration to be archived (https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/549): 

         1. Submitted by Alex Stancu : 

            • sim

            • sim/e1-interface

            • sim/f1-interface

            • sim/fh-interface

         2. Submitted by Mahesh Jethanadani: 

            • smo

            • smo/a1

            • smo/app

            • smo/o2

         3. Submitted by Jackie Huang

            • aal/lib

            • aal/logic

            • aal/mgmt

            • aal/virt

         4. "Empty repos" not being updated since the last 12 months (Note: empty repos can be reactivated upon request if the activity resumes)

            • com/sctp (already agreed at the previous meeting)

            • gnb-int/build

            • gnb-int/common

            • gnb-int/src

            • it/int

            • log (already agreed at the previous meeting)

            • o-cu/e2

            • o-cu/sim

            • o-du

            • o-du/sim

            • o-ru/sim

            • ric-nrt/a1ric-nrt/oam

            • ric-plt/sdl/config (already agreed at the previous meeting)

            • tracelibgo (already agreed at the previous meeting) 

         5. Motion to archive the above repos made by Jack, seconded by Ganesh. The motion is approved
         6. Matti proposes the creation of the following new repos for RICAPP:
            1. ric-app/rc (https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/545)
               
               1. it is commented that O-RAN would probably publish the E2SM-RC specification by October, but the project can start working earlier
               2. Motion to approve the creation of ric-app/rc repo made by Jack, seconded by Andrea. The motion is approved.
            2. ric-app/ric-sdk-cpp
               1. Thoralf proposed some changes by email to clarify the description.  It was commented that RIC SDK in O-RAN is still under discussion and it is not clear 
               2. Matti will propose a review based on suggestions received.
         7. Change of PTL in RICAP (https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/548)
            1. Matti will step down from PTL role, while keeping on supporting the new PTL and the group for some time. Sunil Singh (HCL) has been voted by the group as the new candidate.
            2. Motion to approve Sunil Sing as new PTL for RICAPP made by Jack, seconded by Juha. The motion is approved.
6. Copyright update
   1. Update from Jack (08/25/21): The SCCL license is posted on the O-RAN website. A separate CLA is required for contribution under SCCL license.
   2. Thoralf asked who is putting the first copy of code from specifications in the repository. Jack confirmed any OSC participant can initiate.
   3. CLA draft is ready and is due for approval from O-RAN. Trishan informed it takes 2 weeks for implementation of new CLA.
   4. Update from Jack (09/01/21): still waiting for feedback from O-RAN Alliance about the material to be used first.
   5. 09/15/21: Jinri provided to O-RAN EC a list of examples for candidate material to be shared under SCCL license. 
7. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
   1. Status of PR for "D" Release to be checked

8. Old business and Status of Open Action 

   1. "E" Release timeline.
      1. Status of implementation and call for contributions
      2. OSC lab
         • Update on 09/22/21 David K.: O-FH Gateway almost ready to be shipped. Still working on a permament solution for the clock.
   2. OSC lab in Taiwan (Prof Ray's lab):
      1. Update on 08/25/21: Prof Ray talking to Intel and Viavi. Division of work is not complete till lab is up. 
      2. Potentially integration work can happen in Taiwan lab when sprints complete. By end of the release, they can package it all.
      3. Jack suggested a gradual progression in Taiwan lab with a few modules or blocks being integrated first.
      4. Update on 09/01/21. Rittwik: Prof Ray got in touch with some PTLs. PTLs interested in collaboration may get back to to coordinate with Prof. Ray
      5. Update on 09/08/21. Rittwik: work is still ongoing on lab setup. 
   1. 5G Super Blueprint status - tabled for D and E, will be re-evaluated for F release.
   2. "F" Release timeline
9. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)

   1. Release Manager Trishan de Lanerolle /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling

   2. Former user (Deleted) Requirements Software Architecture Committee

      1.  (Status on 09/22/21 provided by David K.) We havent addressed Slicing use case timeline in RSAC yet. We mainly worked on the O1 CR to meet the O-RAN submission deadline by Oct 11th.  

      2. Open issue on PM data transfer mechanism from O-DU high. ( Former user (Deleted)/ David Kinsey [AT&T] )

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

      1.  (TBD) Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
         1. VES flow is the major use case impacting SMO project we are working on. No issues to raise

      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

         1. Focus for Rel-E is on rApps and R1.
         2. Looking ad the relation with control loop definition and management in ONAP, to ensure consistenty with rApp approach. Possibly harmonized contributions to ONAP anche OSC
         3. Since specification of R1 services is not yet mature, we will focus and expand the generic service exposeure (already started in Rel-D) 

      4. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 

         1. Wiki page on release status has been updated
         2. New RC xApp will be started. Mavenir agreed to implement it
         3. Extending Anomaly detection and traffic steering use cases. RC xApps fits into that as well, but need to also include load prediction xApp already developed in previous release. Accuracy will be improved by including geolocation (info from VIAVI simulator into Influx DB)
         4. Demo xApp "hello world" will be extended to show the functionalities.

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)

         1. implementation is ongoing as planned.
         2. IT support request in https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/theme/portal/2/IT-22326
         3. Plan to implement a A1 mediator and  enhance E2 subscriptiom mechanism.

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

         1. No open implementation so far, just a test fixture
         2. Manasi: this will be enhanced with O1 functionality by end of October. How to deploy O-CU in OSC lab is TBD. Check with David Kinsey [AT&T]

      7. Former user (Deleted)  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

         1. Support for multiple bearers (60% completion) per UE and multiple UEs for scheduling (20% completion). 
         2. Closed loop slicing (40%): implementation according to 3GPP Rel-15
         3. Clarified that relation with O-CU for pairing is limited to the support of slice configuration over O1 NETCONF 

      8. Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

         1. Mansi: working on testing and integration with O-DU high. The problems is end-to-end due to missing FHGW and p2p grandmaster

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

         1. Implementing selected OAM functionat the EDGE
         2. Support to ODUHIGH to implement VES and NETCONF for O1 interface
         3. Pre-spec implementation of PM streaming with VES (while working on the O1 CR to O-RAN)
         4. Update to the next Open Daylight version

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      12. Weichen Ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)

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

3. Planning for Next Meeting

4. Any Other Business (AOB)

   1. On behalf of TOC and OSC community, Jack thanks Matti for the great job as PTL of RICAPP project.

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

2021 09 15

Recording: Zoom recording

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Andrea Buldorini

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x	David Kinsey
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	x
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x	Ondřej Hudousek
   Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	x	John Keeney
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   Nokia	Juha Oravainen	x	Thoralf Czichy
   Orange	William Diego	x	Vincent Danno
   Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Manasi Padhy	x
   TIM	Andrea Buldorini	x	Scarpina Salvatore
   Wind River	Bin Yang	x	Jackie Huang

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes for 09/08/2021 TOC meeting approval: proposed by Andrea, seconded by John Paul. Motion approved.
4. Review of Today's Agenda

5. Release Votes and Approval

   1. AAL project
      1. Action point: Trishan to check if your have to sign a new agreement for the repo if TOC decides on BSD license use. Refer to minutes of previous meeting(s) for details.
      2. Action point: Jack to present the write up about the AAL project  to have a vote.
         1. This was put on the table on 2021-07-07 meeting
         2. Jack: There is discussion ongoing in WG6 and we're still waiting for some aspects that discussion to be resolved. Some clarifications were made but until we get more information we leave this table for now
         3. Update on 08/04/21: This is on hold. WG6 is not having meetings due to vacations. Stage 3 specs are now being targeted for November train. 
         4. Update on 08/18/21: Jack said there is no update and this item continues to be tabled.
         5. Update on 09/01/21: No update in the vacation period. Still waiting for guidance. 
         6. Update on 09/15/21: No update. To be continued.
   2. Repos to be archived
      1. Repos belonging to the following categories:
         1. managed/owned repos PTLs request to archive
         2. unmanged/unused repos
         3. repos with missing info.yaml files
      2. 09/08/21 - Action point: Trishan de Lanerolle will collect proposals from PTLs to vote on at the next meeting. 
      3. 09/15/21
         • the following repos are proposed to be archived as no longer active:

           1. ODU_Dev_Bronze_Rel

           2. E2AP

           3. com/asn1c

           4. log

           5. ric-plt/sdl/config

           6. tracelibgo

           7. com/sctp

           8. ric-plt/resource-status-manager

           9. ric-plt/resource-status-processor

           10. ric-app/admin

           11. ric-app/kpimon

           12. ric-app/ml

           13. ric-app/qp-driver

         • Motion proposed by Jack, seconded by Juha. Motion approved.

         • The following additional repose are proposed for archiving (Martin):

           • portal
         • Motion proposed by Jack, seconded by Andrea. Motion approved.
6. Copyright update
   1. Update from Jack (08/25/21): The SCCL license is posted on the O-RAN website. A separate CLA is required for contribution under SCCL license.
   2. Thoralf asked who is putting the first copy of code from specifications in the repository. Jack confirmed any OSC participant can initiate.
   3. CLA draft is ready and is due for approval from O-RAN. Trishan informed it takes 2 weeks for implementation of new CLA.
   4. Update from Jack (09/01/21): still waiting for feedback from O-RAN Alliance about the material to be used first.
   5. 09/15/21: Jinri provided to O-RAN EC a list of examples for candidate material to be shared under SCCL license. 
7. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
   1. Status of PR for "D" Release to be checked

8. Old business and Status of Open Action 

   1. "E" Release timeline.
      1. Rittwik: Tracking of Slicing use case need to have access to the jira tickets from the SMO / Non RT RIC and O-DU high projects in order to ensure the closed loop is achievable.
         • Open issue on PM data transfer mechanism from O-DU high. To be continued in SMO project (David). 
      2. Mahesh flagged the disaggregated VES implementation. David Kinsey is investigating this.
         1. Update on 09/01/21:
            1. Rittwik: to check ONAP viewpoint about potential enhancement to VES coming from OSC Rel-E requirements
            2. Martin: there is a debate in ONAP about PM streaming and potential enhancements wrt. 3GPP standardized solution, but this should not be of impact for OSC
            3. Martin and John have reported the status of disaggregated VES to ONAP-OSC alignment team. The discussion is at an early stage but ONAP PTLs are now informed and alignment will go on.
         2. Update  on 09/08/21 (David):
            1. to discuss with ONAP at the forthcoming meeting; main task for SMO project could be to ensure that DMaaP also work for other projects while Inlfux and Logstash collect data from O1
         3. Update  on 09/15/21 (David): Aligned with ONAP was achieved and the principle for an updated VES flow (to ensure support for multiple clients with minimal impact) was agreed. Wrt O1 interface, it was also agreed to submit a CR to O-RAN (and possibly harmonize with 3GPP). Closed
      3. Action point: Ganesh Shenbagaraman Provide an update, if O1 is going to be available anytime soon in Radisys O-CU test fixture?
         1. Radisys team working on the update for  O-CU O1. No date is confirmed yet.
         2. update on 09/08/21: CNF implementation still to be confirmed. Info expected in a couple of weeks.
      4. Action point: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to raise with EC on the projects dwindling with low contributions.
         1. Update on 09/15/21 (Jack): the current status was reported to EC. It is expected that more recent projects and activities will get into a more mature state. Also new feature under specification in O-RAN Alliance (e.g. R1 interface) will provide more input for further activities in OSC. If members have inputs or issues to raise towards O-RAN alliance, they can bring to Architecture team. Closed
      5. Status of implementation and call for contributions
         1. Jack, Rittwik: need to document the current status and areas where contributions are needed to fill the gaps. First target could be on O-RAN protocols and interfaces
         2. Thoralf: agree. We should also invite for contributions on integration activities.
         3. Action point Trishan de Lanerolleto create a wiki section to document and keep track of the progress.
         4. update on 09/15/21. Trishan provided a new page with title "Participate". Closed
      6. Action point: Former user (Deleted) to add status page. PTLs will update the progress on use cases approval and new features.
         1. Rittwik provided the Release E status page. This is being updated by PTLs. Target is to have an initial version from all the PTLs for the next meeting on 09/22/21. Closed
      7. OSC lab is still lacking of some Open Front-haul equipment. Action Point David Kinsey [AT&T] to check the status and report back.
   2. OSC lab in Taiwan (Prof Ray's lab):
      1. Update on 08/25/21: Prof Ray talking to Intel and Viavi. Division of work is not complete till lab is up. 
      2. Potentially integration work can happen in Taiwan lab when sprints complete. By end of the release, they can package it all.
      3. Jack suggested a gradual progression in Taiwan lab with a few modules or blocks being integrated first.
      4. Update on 09/01/21. Rittwik: Prof Ray got in touch with some PTLs. PTLs interested in collaboration may get back to to coordinate with Prof. Ray
      5. Update on 09/08/21. Rittwik: work is still ongoing on lab setup. 
   3. Jack (08/25/21): Challenges in test and integration activities. Looking for volunteers to fill this gap.
      1. Update on 09/01/21 (Jack) new contributors may be interested (e.g. also Prof Ray) .  Need for a leadership to take the role of coordination.
      2. Update on 09/15/21: this is still missing. Reopen when volunteers show up.    
   4. Action point: Trishan de Lanerolle to follow up on participation in ONES summit. 
      1. O-RAN SC presence in ONES summit. Trishan brought up the option of OSC booths and demos.
      2. Trishan highlighted the opportunity to interact with other networking projects.
      3. Nokia has an OSC-related presentation at ONES2021. Thoralf noted travel restrictions make it difficult to have in-person contributions from Nokia.
      4. Decision to participate to be made before end of August.
      5. Trishan to follow up on interest on logistics.
      6. 09/01/21 - Trishan: the event will be fully virtual. We have material (demos and proposals) to be presented.
      7. 09/15/21 - Trishan: We have demo provided by Tracy and the preparation was done. No open issues. Closed
   5. 5G Super Blueprint status - tabled for D and E, will be re-evaluated for F release.
   6. "F" Release timeline
      1. no items
9. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)

   1. Release Manager Trishan de Lanerolle /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling

   2. Former user (Deleted) Requirements Software Architecture Committee

   3. Integration and Test (PTL needed)

      1. 09/01/21 - Rittwik:
         1. VES agent SMO, OAM PLTs are engaged. Network Slicing: three-way testing is foreseen. Need to document the call flow validation.
         2.  Multiparty coordination may be supervised by RICAPP project
         3. Action Point: Former user (Deleted)to document the above in the status page. Done in 09/15/21. Closed

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

      1. TBD Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      3. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      7. Former user (Deleted)  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)   

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      12. Weichen Ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)

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

11. Planning for Next Meeting

12. Any Other Business (AOB)

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

2021 09 08

Recording: Zoom Recording

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Andrea Buldorini

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x	David Kinsey
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	x
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl		Ondřej Hudousek
   Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	x	John Keeney
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   Nokia	Juha Oravainen		Thoralf Czichy	x
   Orange	William Diego	x	Vincent Danno
   Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	x	Manasi Padhy
   TIM	Andrea Buldorini	x	Scarpina Salvatore
   Wind River	Bin Yang	x	Jackie Huang

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes for 09/01/2021 TOC meeting approval: proposed by Andrea, seconded by John-Paul. Motion approved.
4. Review of Today's Agenda

5. Release Votes and Approval

   1. AAL project
      1. Action point: Trishan to check if your have to sign a new agreement for the repo if TOC decides on BSD license use. Refer to minutes of previous meeting(s) for details.
      2. Action point: Jack to present the write up about the AAL project  to have a vote.
         1. This was put on the table on 2021-07-07 meeting
         2. Jack: There is discussion ongoing in WG6 and we're still waiting for some aspects that discussion to be resolved. Some clarifications were made but until we get more information we leave this table for now
         3. Update on 08/04/21: This is on hold. WG6 is not having meetings due to vacations. Stage 3 specs are now being targeted for November train. 
         4. Update on 08/18/21: Jack said there is no update and this item continues to be tabled.
         5. Update on 09/01/21: No update in the vacation period. Still waiting for guidance. 
   2. Disabling anonymous comments on OSC Wiki
      1. John Keeney proposed to disallow the feature allowing anonymous comments, in order to prevent spam on the OSC wiki pages. Motion by John Keeney, seconded by David Streibl. Motion approved.
      2. Action point: Trishan de Lanerolle to ensure anonymous comments are disabled by wiki admin. Done. Action point closed (09/08/21)
   3. Repos to be archived
      1. Repos belonging to the following categories:
         1. managed/owned repos PTLs request to archive
         2. unmanged/unused repos
         3. repos with missing info.yaml files
      2. 09/08/21 - Action point: Trishan de Lanerolle will collect proposals from PTLs to vote on at the next meeting 
6. Copyright update
   1. Update from Jack (08/25/21): The SCCL license is posted on the O-RAN website. A separate CLA is required for contribution under SCCL license.
   2. Thoralf asked who is putting the first copy of code from specifications in the repository. Jack confirmed any OSC participant can initiate.
   3. CLA draft is ready and is due for approval from O-RAN. Trishan informed it takes 2 weeks for implementation of new CLA.
   4. Update from Jack (09/01/21): still waiting for feedback from O-RAN Alliance about the material to be used first.
7. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

8. Old business and Status of Open Action 

   1. "E" Release timeline.
      1. Update on 08/25/21 on E release plan.
         1. Rittwik to follow up on INF project. Alex updated SIM project info. v4 of release plan to be updated on RSAC wiki.
      2. Update on 09/01/21 (Rittwik)
         1. INF project; new items were added to include some new O2-DMS approved in the O-RAN WG6 July train
         2. SIM project also added new features
         3. Network Slicing and Disaggregated VES use cases were agreed
      3. Mahesh flagged the disaggregated VES implementation. David Kinsey is investigating this.
         1. Update on 09/01/21:
            1. Rittwik: to check ONAP viewpoint about potential enhancement to VES coming from OSC Rel-E requirements
            2. Martin: there is a debate in ONAP about PM streaming and potential enhancements wrt. 3GPP standardized solution, but this should not be of impact for OSC
            3. Martin and John have reported the status of disaggregated VES to ONAP-OSC alignment team. The discussion is at an early stage but ONAP PTLs are now informed and alignment will go on.
         2. Update  on 09/08/21 (David):
            1. to discuss with ONAP at the forthcoming meeting; main task for SMO project could be to ensure that DMaaP also work for other projects while Inlfux and Logstash collect data from O1 
      4. Action point: Ganesh Shenbagaraman Provide an update, if O1 is going to be available anytime soon in Radisys O-CU test fixture?
         1. Radisys team working on the update for  O-CU O1. No date is confirmed yet.
         2. update on 09/08/21: CNF implementation still to be confirmed. Info expected in a couple of weeks.
      5. Action point: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to raise with EC on the projects dwindling with low contributions.
      6. Status of implementation and call for contributions
         1. Jack, Rittwik: need to document the current status and areas where contributions are needed to fill the gaps. First target could be on O-RAN protocols and interfaces
         2. Thoralf: agree. We should also invite for contributions on integration activities.
         3. Action point Trishan de Lanerolleto create a wiki section to document and keep track of the progress.
      7. Action point: Former user (Deleted) to add status page. PTLs will update the progress on use cases approval and new features.
   2. OSC lab in Taiwan (Prof Ray's lab):
      1. Update on 08/25/21: Prof Ray talking to Intel and Viavi. Division of work is not complete till lab is up. 
      2. Potentially integration work can happen in Taiwan lab when sprints complete. By end of the release, they can package it all.
      3. Jack suggested a gradual progression in Taiwan lab with a few modules or blocks being integrated first.
      4. Update on 09/01/21. Rittwik: Prof Ray got in touch with some PTLs. PTLs interested in collaboration may get back to to coordinate with Prof. Ray
      5. Update on 09/08/21. Rittwik: work is still ongoing on lab setup. 
   3. Jack (08/25/21): Challenges in test and integration activities. Looking for volunteers to fill this gap.
      1. Update on 09/01/21 (Jack) new contributors may be interested (e.g. also Prof Ray) .  Need for a leadership to take the role of coordination.   
   4. Jack and Rittwik (08/25/21): Nokia equipment (fronthaul gateway) getting shipped to OSC lab. Follow up with Viavi needed for PTP grandmaster.  
   5. Action point: Trishan de Lanerolle to follow up on participation in ONES summit. 
      1. O-RAN SC presence in ONES summit. Trishan brought up the option of OSC booths and demos.
      2. Trishan highlighted the opportunity to interact with other networking projects.
      3. Nokia has an OSC-related presentation at ONES2021. Thoralf noted travel restrictions make it difficult to have in-person contributions from Nokia.
      4. Decision to participate to be made before end of August.
      5. Trishan to follow up on interest on logistics.
      6. 09/01/21 - Trishan: the event will be fully virtual. We have material (demos and proposals) to be presented.
   6. 5G Super Blueprint status - tabled for D and E, will be re-evaluated for F release.
9. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)

   1. Release Manager Trishan de Lanerolle /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling

   2. Former user (Deleted) Requirements Software Architecture Committee

   3. Integration and Test (PTL needed)

      1. 09/01/21 - Rittwik:
         1. VES agent SMO, OAM PLTs are engaged. Network Slicing: three-way testing is foreseen. Need to document the call flow validation.
         2.  Multiparty coordination may be supervised by RICAPP project
         3. Action Point: Former user (Deleted)to document the above in the status page

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

      1. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      3. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 

      4. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)

      5. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      6. Former user (Deleted)  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      7. Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)   

      8. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      9. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      10. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      11. Weichen Ni Documentation (DOC)

      12. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)

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

11. Planning for Next Meeting

12. Any Other Business (AOB)

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

2021 09 01

Recording: Zoom recording

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Andrea Buldorini

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x	David Kinsey
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	x
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x	Ondřej Hudousek
   Ericsson	John-Paul Lane		John Keeney	x
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   Nokia	Juha Oravainen		Thoralf Czichy
   Orange	William Diego	x	Vincent Danno
   Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	x	Manasi Padhy
   TIM	Andrea Buldorini	x	Scarpina Salvatore
   Wind River	Bin Yang	x	Jackie Huang

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes for 08/25/2021 TOC meeting approval: proposed by Ganesh, seconded by Masafumi. Motion approved.
4. Review of Today's Agenda

5. Release Votes and Approval

   1. AAL project
      1. Action point: Trishan to check if your have to sign a new agreement for the repo if TOC decides on BSD license use. Refer to minutes of previous meeting(s) for details.
      2. Action point: Jack to present the write up about the AAL project  to have a vote.
         1. This was put on the table on 2021-07-07 meeting
         2. Jack: There is discussion ongoing in WG6 and we're still waiting for some aspects that discussion to be resolved. Some clarifications were made but until we get more information we leave this table for now
         3. Update on 08/04/21: This is on hold. WG6 is not having meetings due to vacations. Stage 3 specs are now being targeted for November train. 
         4. Update on 08/18/21: Jack said there is no update and this item continues to be tabled.
         5. Update on 09/01/21: No update in the vacation period. Still waiting for guidance. 
   2. Disabling anonymous comments on OSC Wiki
      1. John Keeney proposed to disallow the feature allowing anonymous comments, in order to prevent spam on the OSC wiki pages. Motion by John Keeney, seconded by David Streibl. Motion approved.
      2. Action point: Trishan de Lanerolle to ensure anonymous comments are disabled by wiki admin.
6. Copyright update
   1. Update from Jack (08/25/21): The SCCL license is posted on the O-RAN website. A separate CLA is required for contribution under SCCL license.
   2. Thoralf asked who is putting the first copy of code from specifications in the repository. Jack confirmed any OSC participant can initiate.
   3. CLA draft is ready and is due for approval from O-RAN. Trishan informed it takes 2 weeks for implementation of new CLA.
   4. Update from Jack (09/01/21): still waiting for feedback from O-RAN Alliance about the material to be used first.
7. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
   1. Action point: Jinri to organize release statement and PR for "D" Release
      1. Jinri's update (08/11/21): EC approved content but text is still being refined. Quotes from companies mentioned in previous releases are not accepted. The other criterion is level of contribution. PR expected next week.

8. Old business and Status of Open Action Items

   1. Action point: PTLs help is needed to provide a list of files, which will use SCCL license. This is closed.
   2. D Release
      1. Action point: Mahesh Jethanandani to add SMO to D-release image list page: D Release Docker Image List - Integration and Testing - Confluence (o-ran-sc.org). Mahesh to follow up. 
      2. Action point:  huangjinri@chinamobile.com  to follow up with Intel on O-DU-Low representation.
   3. D Release Maintenance (Update on 09/01/21)
      1. Jack: D Release Maintenance was approved and projects are expected to make the respective branches available
      2. Manasi: O-DU High is aligning with OAM and Non-RT RIC PTLs on the process.
   4. "E" Release timeline.
      1. Update on 08/25/21 on E release plan.
         1. Rittwik to follow up on INF project. Alex updated SIM project info. v4 of release plan to be updated on RSAC wiki.
      2. Update on 09/01/21 (Rittwik)
         1. INF project; new items were added to include some new O2-DMS approved in the O-RAN WG6 July train
         2. SIM project also added new features
         3. Network Slicing and Disaggregated VES use cases were agreed
      3. Mahesh flagged the disaggregated VES implementation. David Kinsey is investigating this.
         1. Update on 09/01/21:
            1. Rittwik: to check ONAP viewpoint about potential enhancement to VES coming from OSC Rel-E requirements
            2. Martin: there is a debate in ONAP about PM streaming and potential enhancements wrt. 3GPP standardized solution, but this should not be of impact for OSC
            3. Martin and John have reported the status of disaggregated VES to ONAP-OSC alignment team. The discussion is at an early stage but ONAP PTLs are now informed and alignment will go on.
      4. Action point: Ganesh Shenbagaraman Provide an update, if O1 is going to be available anytime soon in Radisys O-CU test fixture?
         1. Radisys team working on the update for  O-CU O1. No date is confirmed yet.
      5. Action point: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to raise with EC on the projects dwindling with low contributions. 
         1. Rittwik flagged lack of progress in certain projects (Infra, O-DU-Low, O-CU) and asked Jinri to highlight to EC. Standing up on O-Cloud is still not happening. Jinri to discuss with Rittwik offline.
         2. Jinri to follow up with Prof Ray (Taiwan Uty) on their participation in lab setup and integration. Rittwik to share the email ID of Prof Ray.
      6. Action point: Former user (Deleted) to add status page. PTLs will update the progress on use cases approval and new features.
   5. OSC lab in Taiwan (Prof Ray's lab):
      1. Update on 08/25/21: Prof Ray talking to Intel and Viavi. Division of work is not complete till lab is up. 
      2. Potentially integration work can happen in Taiwan lab when sprints complete. By end of the release, they can package it all.
      3. Jack suggested a gradual progression in Taiwan lab with a few modules or blocks being integrated first.
      4. Update on 09/01/21. Rittwik: Prof Ray got in touch with some PTLs. PTLs interested in collaboration may get back to to coordinate with Prof. Ray
   6. Jack (08/25/21): Challenges in test and integration activities. Looking for volunteers to fill this gap.
      1. Update on 09/01/21 (Jack) new contributors may be interested (e.g. also Prof Ray) .  Need for a leadership to take the role of coordination.   
   7. Jack and Rittwik (08/25/21): Nokia equipment (fronthaul gateway) getting shipped to OSC lab. Follow up with Viavi needed for PTP grandmaster.
   8. Repo clean-up:
      1. Action Point: Trishan de Lanerolle to close all not active repos.
         1. All PTLs to follow up on repos not active and communicate to Trishan. 
      2. Matti raised the point of legacy repos to be archived. Jack: this need formal approval by TOC at the next meeting 
   9. Update on scorecard: Consolidating the scorecards of sub projects will lead to new analytics. No action needed from anyone.
      1. 09/01/21 - Trishan: new charts will come up in the next month in the analytics platform.  
   10. Action point: Trishan de Lanerolle to follow up on participation in ONES summit. 
       1. O-RAN SC presence in ONES summit. Trishan brought up the option of OSC booths and demos.
       2. Trishan highlighted the opportunity to interact with other networking projects.
       3. Nokia has an OSC-related presentation at ONES2021. Thoralf noted travel restrictions make it difficult to have in-person contributions from Nokia.
       4. Decision to participate to be made before end of August.
       5. Trishan to follow up on interest on logistics.
       6. 09/01/21 - Trishan: the event will be fully virtual. We have material (demos and proposals) to be presented.
   11. 5G Super Blueprint status - tabled for D and E, will be re-evaluated for F release.
9. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)

   1. Release Manager Trishan de Lanerolle /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling

   2. Former user (Deleted) Requirements Software Architecture Committee

   3. Integration and Test (PTL needed)

      1. 09/01/21 - Rittwik:
         1. VES agent SMO, OAM PLTs are engaged. Network Slicing: three-way testing is foreseen. Need to document the call flow validation.
         2.  Multiparty coordination may be supervised by RICAPP project
         3. Action Point: Former user (Deleted)to document the above in the status page

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

      1. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      3. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 

      4. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)

      5. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      6. Former user (Deleted)  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      7. Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)   

      8. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      9. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      10. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      11. Weichen Ni Documentation (DOC)

      12. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)

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

    1. Vote on Archiving of legacy repos to take place at the next TOC meeting
11. Planning for Next Meeting

12. Any Other Business (AOB)

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

2021 08 25

Recording: Zoom recording

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Ganesh Shenbagaraman

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x	David Kinsey
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	x
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x	Ondřej Hudousek
   Ericsson	John-Paul Lane		John Keeney	x
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   Nokia	Juha Oravainen		Thoralf Czichy	x
   Orange	William Diego		Vincent Danno
   Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	x	Manasi Padhy
   TIM	Andrea Buldorini	x	Scarpina Salvatore
   Wind River	Bin Yang	x	Jackie Huang

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes for 08/18/2021 TOC meeting approval: proposed by Ganesh, seconded by Andrea. Motion approved.
4. Review of Today's Agenda

5. Release Votes and Approval

   1. AAL project
      1. Action point: Trishan to check if your have to sign a new agreement for the repo if TOC decides on BSD license use. Refer to minutes of previous meeting(s) for details.
      2. Action point: Jack to present the write up about the AAL project  to have a vote.
         1. This was put on the table on 2021-07-07 meeting
         2. Jack: There is discussion ongoing in WG6 and we're still waiting for some aspects that discussion to be resolved. Some clarifications were made but until we get more information we leave this table for now
         3. Update on 08/04/21: This is on hold. WG6 is not having meetings due to vacations. Stage 3 specs are now being targeted for November train. 
         4. Update on 08/18/21: Jack said there is no update and this item continues to be tabled.
6. Copyright update
   1. Update from Jack (08/25/21): The SCCL license is posted on the O-RAN website. A separate CLA is required for contribution under SCCL license.
   2. Thoralf asked who is putting the first copy of code from specifications in the repository. Jack confirmed any OSC participant can initiate.
   3. CLA draft is ready and is due for approval from O-RAN. Trishan informed it takes 2 weeks for implementation of new CLA.
7. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
   1. Action point: Jinri to organize release statement and PR for "D" Release
      1. Jinri's update (08/11/21): EC approved content but text is still being refined. Quotes from companies mentioned in previous releases are not accepted. The other criterion is level of contribution. PR expected next week.

8. Old business and Status of Open Action Items

   1. Action point: PTLs help is needed to provide a list of files, which will use SCCL license. This is closed.
   2. D Release
      1. Action point: Mahesh Jethanandani to add SMO to D-release image list page: D Release Docker Image List - Integration and Testing - Confluence (o-ran-sc.org). Mahesh to follow up. 
      2. Action point:  huangjinri@chinamobile.com  to follow up with Intel on O-DU-Low representation.
   3. D Release Maintenance (Update on 08/18/21)
      1. Ganesh and Manasi updated on the status of testing with O-DU-Low. Testing currently blocked by PTP clock 
      2. Manasi: O-DU-High and O-DU-Low pair-wise testing is completed.
      3. John Keeney (Non-RT RIC) , Martin confirmed code freeze.
      4. Maintenance release approval. Motion proposed by Jack and seconded by David. Motion approved with the mention that O-DU-High and O-DU-high were only pair tested.
   4. "E" Release timeline.
      1. Update on 08/25/21 on E release plan.
         1. Rtitwik to follow up on INF project. Alex updated SIM project info. v4 of release plan to be updated on RSAN wiki.
      2. Mahesh flagged the disaggregated VEs implementation. David Kinsey is investigating this.
      3. Action point: Ganesh Shenbagaraman Provide an update, if O1 is going to be available anytime soon in Radisys O-CU test fixture?
         1. Radisys team working on the update for  O-CU O1. No date is confirmed yet.
      4. Action point: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to raise with EC on the projects dwindling with low contributions. 
         1. Rittwik flagged lack of progress in certain projects (Infra, O-DU-Low, O-CU) and asked Jinri to highlight to EC. Standing up on O-Cloud is still not happening. Jinri to discuss with Rittwik offline.
         2. Jinri to follow up with Prof Ray (Taiwan Uty) on their participation in lab setup and integration. Rittwik to share the email ID of Prof Ray.
      5. Rittwik to add status page 
   5. OSC lab in Taiwan (Prof Ray's lab):
      1. Update on 08/25/21: Prof Ray talking to Intel and Viavi. Division of work is not complete till lab is up. 
      2. Potentially integration work can happen in Taiwan lab when sprints complete. By end of the release, they can package it all.
      3. Jack suggested a gradual progression in Taiwan lab with a few modules or blocks being integrated first.
   6. Jack (08/25/21): Challenges in test and integration activities. Looking for volunteers to fill this gap.
   7. Jack and Rittwik (08/25/21): Nokia equipment (fronthaul gateway) getting shipped to OSC lab. Follow up with Viavi needed for PTP grandmaster.
   8. Repo clean-up:
      1. Action Point: Trishan de Lanerolle to close all not active repos.
         1. All PTLs to follow up on repos not active and communicate to Trishan. 
   9. Update on scorecard: Consolidating the scorecards of sub projects will lead to new analytics. No action needed from anyone.
   10. Action point: Trishan de Lanerolle to follow up on participation in ONES summit. 
       1. O-RAN SC presence in ONES summit. Trishan brought up the option of OSC booths and demos.
       2. Trishan highlighted the opportunity to interact with other networking projects.
       3. Nokia has an OSC-related presentation at ONES2021. Thoralf noted travel restrictions make it difficult to have in-person contributions from Nokia.
       4. Decision to participate to be made before end of August.
       5. Trishan to follow up on interest on logistics.
   11. 5G Super Blueprint status - tabled for D and E, will be re-evaluated for F release.
9. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)

   1. Release Manager Trishan de Lanerolle /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling

   2. Former user (Deleted) Requirements Software Architecture Committee

   3. Integration and Test (PTL needed)

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

      1. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      2. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      3. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 

      4. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)

      5. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      6. Former user (Deleted)  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      7. Zhimin Yuan (Deactivated) O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)   

      8. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      9. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      10. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      11. Weichen Ni Documentation (DOC)

      12. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)

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

11. Planning for Next Meeting

12. Any Other Business (AOB)

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

2021 08 18

Recording: Zoom recording

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Ganesh Shenbagaraman

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x	David Kinsey
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x	James Li
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x	Ondřej Hudousek
   Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	x	John Keeney
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   Nokia	Juha Oravainen		Thoralf Czichy	x
   Orange	William Diego		Vincent Danno
   Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	x	Manasi Padhy
   TIM	Andrea Buldorini	x	Scarpina Salvatore
   Wind River	Bin Yang	x	Jackie Huang

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes for 08/11/2021 TOC meeting approval: proposed by Ganesh, seconded by Jinri. Motion approved.
   2. Minutes for 08/04/21 TOC meeting approval: proposed by Ganesh, seconded by Jinri. Motion approved.
4. Review of Today's Agenda

5. Release Votes and Approval

   1. AAL project
      1. Action point: Trishan to check if your have to sign a new agreement for the repo if TOC decides on BSD license use. Refer to minutes of previous meeting(s) for details.
      2. Action point: Jack to present the write up about the AAL project  to have a vote.
         1. This was put on the table on 2021-07-07 meeting
         2. Jack: There is discussion ongoing in WG6 and we're still waiting for some aspects that discussion to be resolved. Some clarifications were made but until we get more information we leave this table for now
         3. Update on 08/04/21: This is on hold. WG6 is not having meetings due to vacations. Stage 3 specs are now being targeted for November train. 
6. Copyright update
   1. Update from Jack (08/18/21): ASN definitions and models from O-RAN spec to be brought in OSC repos under SCCL. EC to approve the list.
   2. List of requests to be compiled. Thoralf emailed TOC group for near RT RIC ASN requests.
   3. Jinri: EC requested a list of examples first to facilitate the process. Request to other PTLs to provide examples.
   4. Martin: Submitted in email a list of the YANG models we are interested in. Will add models from 2 more specifications.
   5. Tracy, Martin: We also have a list of YANG models under discussion and not approved yet.
7. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
   1. Action point: Jinri to organize release statement and PR for "D" Release
      1. Jinri's update (08/11/21): EC approved content but text is still being refined. Quotes from companies mentioned in previous releases are not accepted. The other criterion is level of contribution. PR expected next week.

8. Old business and Status of Open Action Items

   1. Action point: PTLs help is needed to provide a list of files, which will use SCCL license
      1. Jinri brought this up with O-RAN TSC. EC ready to review example files to facilitate the definition. The example files could be specification sections/tables/charts that we plan to use in OSC. 
      2. Thoralf highlighted example from O-RAN WG3 E2AP spec (Section 9.3). He will initiate a new discussion in the mailing list.
      3. John Keeney requested more clarity on SCCL license and its use for existing files in repos. Should it be used if code uses specs or if we generate code from specs? Need more guidance from TOC or legal team.
      4. Trishan asked if code files will be stored separately under this license.
      5. Jinri will work with Stefan to provide some example files and guidance.
   2. D Release
      1. Action point: Mahesh Jethanandani to add SMO to D-release image list page: D Release Docker Image List - Integration and Testing - Confluence (o-ran-sc.org). Mahesh to follow up. 
      2. Action point:  huangjinri@chinamobile.com  to follow up with Intel on O-DU-Low representation.
      3. O-DU-High PTL (Manasi) to update release download information. Completed during the meeting.
   3. D Release Maintenance
      1. Update from Manasi (08/18/21): Further e2e testing is blocked due to lack of local GM clock.  Rittwik said Viaivi is working on providing this to OSC lab.
      2. Decision of pending code changes and release readiness to be closed in TOC meeting on 8/25.
      3. Non-RT RIC: John Paul Lane to confirm if there are any open issues.
      4. OAM: Martin: OAM code is good to go.
      5. O-DU High: Manasi updated code is ready.
      6. O-DU Low: Manasi updated that some testing is pending based on the latest fixes.
      7. SIM: Alex said no fixes needed.
      8. Maintenance release cannot be approved due to lack of updates from other PTLs.
   4. "E" Release timeline.
      1. Jack: After the "D" Release is out, let's get a short presentation to make sure we understand how the architecture looks like.
         1. Action point: Former user (Deleted) to make an overview presentation together with PTLs in E-release timeframe
      2. Action point: Ganesh Shenbagaraman Provide an update, if O1 is going to be available anytime soon in Radisys O-CU test fixture?
         1. Radisys team working on the update for  O-CU O1. No date is confirmed yet.
      3. Action point: Former user (Deleted)will reach out every PTL and go through necessary E release content items. Action closed.
         1. Rittwik presented E release contents in detail. Disaggregated VES and network slicing.
         2.  Disaggregated VES agent with decoupling of transport and Pub/sub mechanism. FM/PM coordination work in WG10 (Nov release train).
         3. Mahesh raised a point on dependency on Nov train spec release for OSC E release.
         4. Networks slicing feature proposed by Radisys. Closed lop slice assurance. 
         5. SMO, Non-RT RIC, OAM and O-DU-High project teams have reviewed call flows.
         6. Jinri: Is this targeted for an video quality kind of application? Rittwik said this is defined generically for any such use.
         7. Jack: Are notifications to SMO standardized? Mahesh said E release implementation will be pre-spec. Discussion ongoing in WG5.
         8. Rittwik: PM counters and r1 APIs will be pre-spec as well.
         9. Manasi: we can use basic counters already available in July train.
         10. Discussed other minor work items of E release from each component.
         11. RICAPP: Discussed LP, AD, QP, Bouncer xApps. Exploring intetest from xApps from Mavenir, Viavi and CMCC.
         12. O-DU-High: Network slicing, L2 specific features, scaling for multi-UE and multi-bearer. E2 enhancments as stretch goal.
         13. OAM: NW slicing, ODL Silicon upgrade, deployment and automation aspects in a CNF/K8s environment.
         14. Rittwik again highlighted the projects in trouble as they are lagging: INF, O-DU-Low and O-CU
         15. Bin Yang: INF PTL will come up with a plan. Action Point: Bin Yang /WindRiver will provide plan for INF.
         16. SMO and other project o add to slides shared by Rittwik.
         17. Jinri: New PTL from O-DU-Low wil be Luis (Intel). 
         18. Jack: Intel PTL should go to RSAC to represent O-DU-Low.
         19. Rtittwik: Projects are ready to start the sprints in E release. Action Point: Rittwik to set up a page for release item list update by PTLs.
         20. Mahesh: SMO team will discuss to waht extent the disaggregation requirements can be met.
      4. Action point: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to raise with EC on the projects dwindling with low contributions. 
         1. Rittwik flagged lack of progress in certain projects (Infra, O-DU-Low, O-CU) and asked Jinri to highlight to EC. Standing up on O-Cloud is still not happening. Jinri to discuss with Rittwik offline.
         2. Jinri to follow up with Prof Ray (Taiwan Uty) on their partcipation in lab setup and integration. Rittwik to share the email ID of Prof Ray.
      5. Rittwik to add status page 
   5. OSC lab in Taiwan (Prof Ray's lab):
      1. Rittwik discussed with Prof Ray (Taiwan).  The lab is ready and the Prof Ray's team is volunteering for more work. Prof Ray to attend next TOC meeting.
   6. Repo clean-up:
      1. Action Point: Trishan de Lanerolle to slose all not active repos.
         1. All PTLs to follow up on repos not active and communicate to Trishan. 
   7. Update on scorecard: Consolidating the scorecards of sub projects will lead to new analytics. No action needed from anyone.
   8. Action point: Trishan de Lanerolle to follow up on partcipation in ONES summit. 
      1. O-RAN SC presence in ONES summit. Trishan brought up the option of OSC booths and demos.
      2. Trishan highlighted the opportunity to interact with other networking projects.
      3. Nokia has an OSC-related presentation at ONES2021. Thoralf noted travel restrictions make it difficult to have in-person contributions from Nokia.
      4. Decision to participate to be made before end of August.
      5. Trishan to follow up on interest on logistics.
   9. 5G Super Blueprint status - tabled for D and E, will be re-evaluated for F release.
9. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)

   1. Release Manager Trishan de Lanerolle /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling

   2. Former user (Deleted) Requirements Software Architecture Committee

   3. Integration and Test (PTL needed)

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

      1. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)