2023 12 21

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Jinri Huang (CMCC) (12/7 from Recording), David Kinsey (AT&T) (12/14 from recording), David Kinsey (AT&T) (12/21 from recording)
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li	X
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy	X
Orange	Julien Boudani	X
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
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.

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting 2023-12-14 : Motion proposed by Julien and seconded by Ankit, motion was approved without objection.
Review of Today's Agenda
1. Walk Ons? No new items added
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 12-07: No New Items this week
2. 12-07: OAI Roadmap 12-14
3. 12-14: OAI Vision presented by Irfan and Ganesh.
4. 12-14: Luis nominates Peng Lu from Intel to take the O-DU Low Phy PTL role as he will be retiring from Intel effective January 5, 2024. link
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
  1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
  2. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
    2. OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
      1. 11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
    3. 12-14 David Kinsey [AT&T] OpenAir Interface Action Item is complete
  3. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com No update this week. Will continue
2. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Nothing pending.
3. 12-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] Nothing pending.
4. 12-14: Motion from Thoralf to approve the release with the condition that the three outstanding projects, which the PTL were not represented (RICAPP, SMO, DOC) would close their project activities by 12/21. Seconded by John-Paul. Motion was Approved
5. 12-21: Release Review, Conditions were met so 12-14 vote is confirmed.
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
      1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected;
      2. 11-09: Jakub Novy [DTAG] mentioned that SCCL was discussed at this week's OSFG meeting, Suggest to follow up at next week TOC. More decisions needed at O-RAN level.
      3. 11-16: Jakub Novy [DTAG] There is a meeting with O-RAN legal next week to review any potential issues.
      4. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] A meeting took place with tooling within WG10. ACOP also needs to be consulted over the process. Jakub Novy [DTAG] to provide update on meeting with O-RAN legal.
      5. 12-07: Jakub Novy [DTAG] Not much to report. Got some feedback from O-RAN legal on brainstorming phase of WG10; Also checking with ETSI, Doug is helping. David Kinsey [AT&T] currently pushing SCCL with WG3, WG10 and WG4.John Keeney (Ericsson EST) is of interest of publishing R1 related files with SCCL from WG2. David Kinsey [AT&T] R1 related file may end up be an Open API.
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. Joint Workshop: https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/
        11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN;
        11-09: OpenAir Interface reminder that workshop happens at Innovation Campus in Burlington not Boston Downtown. Approx 150 registered participants. Full agenda.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface to resend agenda to mailing list.
        11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft -
        11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR.
        11-09: See AP review above.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
        OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
        11-16: OpenAir Interface The workshop was generally very well attended. NTIA and NSF attended to give government perspective on O-RAN. Good to get the opportunity to address government agencies directly. Demos were very well received. Presented the next phases of collaboration between OSC and OAI e.g. Nephio and OSC collaboration for SMO and relationship to OAI. Meeting next week with Radisys to discuss potential integration of OAI CU with OSC. Next steps are to try to operationalise the OSC collaboration roadmap with, for example, Nephio. Recordings of workshop, poster sessions and demo sessions to be made available online shortly. Need to have a plan / roadmap for OSC features through 2024 similar to the OAI roadmap.
        11-16: Tracy Van Brakle There is an opportunity for teams to present demo proposals at the upcoming North America O-RAN plugfest readout on Nov 29th. Tracy will post further information to the public mailing list.
        11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Readout meeting took place for North American O-RAN plugfest. Some outstanding demonstrations were presented. Demonstrators and participants from industry an university faculty students. Mini-PR to be discussed to mark this event. Funding is starting to come from O-RAN Alliance and government agencies (in US and beyond). Martin Skorupski it was good to see things moving in alignment between the O-RAN Alliance and open source.
        11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] will prepare PR regarding the Boston meeting of OSC and OAI. OpenAir Interface has shared the summary of meeting with OAI steering meeting. Interesting to learn that Nephio has input into the SMO (FOCOM).
        11-30: OpenAir Interface Next steps are to present a joint roadmap. Should be presented to and reviewed by the OSC TOC. David Kinsey [AT&T] there is a challenge for OSC to do better with creating a multi-release feature roadmap.
        11-30: OpenAir Interface follow-up discussions are already taking place for the traffic network functions. For example, Radisys are working on the O-DU integration with OAI. The workshop really helped to kickstart this collaboration between OSC and OAI. David Kinsey [AT&T] Do we continue to use the OSC O-DU (Low) or do we start to look towards OAI for this function? Ankit Barve has taken an action point at RSAC to investigate a mix n match approach with OSC and OAI for O-DU. Should have a clearer picture on this over the coming weeks.
        12-07: OpenAir Interface The document that I prepared basically was co-signed by Ganesh and I'd like permission from Ganesh to be able to present. David Kinsey [AT&T] we'll put it on for next week.
        12-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] has a draft for the joint workshop PR but needs get approval from AT&T. Still a pending question about O-DU-low, needs a decision with the roadmap to whether to keep the O-DU-low project. Need to send those questions to Lewis from Intel.
        12-14: We walked through the OAI O-CU + OSC O-DU-High + OAI O-DU-Low presentation by Ganesh Shenbagaraman and OpenAir Interface to be found in the Toc Documents folder
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle: Draft of First version - aiming for Release 0 at end of year.
        Link for those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
      2. 11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Meeting planned for December 14th to review the roadmap with O-RAN Alliance TSC co-chairs. OSFG meeting Monday 4th will review (5am PT).
      3. 11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Need blueprint status, technical issues and roadmap as input to the TSC co-chair meeting.
      4. 11-30: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Plans to approach Jindrich Brett in O-RAN Alliance to confirm process for voting on a vendor co-chair for OSFG
      5. 12-07: Tracy Van Brakle The roadmap of the blueprint is in the form of a white paper and it's a drafty draft on OSFG contribution page. David Kinsey [AT&T] where's O-Cloud in this phase 1 (early iteration)? Nephio is just an enabler. We need O-Cloud to interconnect our labs. Tracy Van Brakle For the road map, introduce O-Cloud as a starting point, 4th quarter 2023; and then Cloudify O-Cloud, 2nd quarter 2024 (deployment by the SMO using O2 interface). David Kinsey [AT&T] when should we be targeting a demonstration with an OAI network function, using an OSC SMO to deploy it with Nephio enablers? 3 roadmaps (OSC, OAI, Nephio) have to be aligned. Saw demo at the workshop that use SMO + Near RT RIC + xApp on A1 to make policy change for DU bandwidth. So something is there but needs to be more generalized. Bala from Red Hat indicates that Nephio is creating their user stories and priorities for the R3 release (starting early 2024 towards the middle of 2024), and O2 IMS is one of them. Tracy Van Brakle Doug and I will see where srsRAN might fit in, and when if they do. srsRAN expressed their interest to participate.
    4. Other
      1. 11-09: Mix up with times for this week's OSFG meeting. Calendar has now been updated to 7AM EST (huangjinri@chinamobile.com).
      2. 12-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] need to work out the scribe. huangjinri@chinamobile.com will do 12/7, and David Kinsey [AT&T] can do 12/14. May need one for 12/21. jboudani can do January 2024, starting from 1/4.
Standing/old business

1. OSC Lab
  1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle Looking forward to discussions in Boston of having OSC labs working for upcoming plugfest, but also for experimentation & demos
    1. See also links from OSFG last week. For those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
  2. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Bedminster lab remains down. Considering consolidation into a different AT&T lab, in a different location (still NJ), which is more aligned with OSC work. Access processes should be similar to current access process. AP on David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review and revert.
  3. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] proposals for lab contract to be reviewed within AT&T. Work is ongoing and progress is being made. Next two weeks are critical in order to get funding from O-RAN Alliance and finalise lab plans.
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
  2. 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. 11-09: See AP review above.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com: This table is for mapping template between project & specs. No update this week. Will continue
  3. 11-09: Sridhar Rao License Scanning will be complete with report by 10 Dec. See checklist on wikipage: Release Checklist#I-Release
  4. 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
  5. 11-16: Sridhar has reviewed the status of release I documentation. Many documents still outstanding. AP: All PTLs to update release I checklist and ensure a plan to finalise release docs.
  6. 11-30: Sridhar Rao is not seeing updates on wiki release pages. Based on current lack of progress, it may be difficult to meet release deadlines for December. PTLs and teams need more urgency in updating release I pages / wiki, highlights, release checklist and other release-relevant documentation. Once all documentation is ready, the only thing required is a TOC release vote.
  7. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Release I date is provisionally targeting 25th - 29th December. This may be challenging for some. Need to agree a date for the release vote to take place. Thoralf Czichy suggests the 14th December (keeping 21st December as a backup) for the Release I vote. David Kinsey [AT&T] made motion to release on 14th December, Thoralf Czichy seconded. Motion approved.
  8. 12-07: Sridhar Rao From the I release checklist page, only 5 projects NONRTRIC, RICPLT, ODUHIGH*, INF, AIMLFW completed the committed features. Need all PTLs to work and complete by next Thursday for release vote.For the "Release documentation for Blog/Article on Release" item will have a dedicated marketing person to update the wiki and generate a PR for I release. Ankit Barve how about "Features Implemented Mapping to O-RAN Spec by Project" table for I release? David Kinsey [AT&T] It might be kept at the project level for each PTL to fill in the details of the O-RAN specs impacting features. Ankit Barve Propose to add as a last section to the project.
3. 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)

- - - E2E call - pairwise testing, lijian56 , Nov. 2
    - Lab updates, lijian56 , Nov. 2
      - 11-02: Presentation here
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: N.K. Shankaranarayanan Provided a update on Opensource projects in SMO space & mapping to 'Decoupled SMO Architecture'
        Presentation: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/12948665/dec_smo_flows_v1.4_20231109.pptx?api=v2
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com Suggestion to add dates to slides as they change.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: No update this week.
        Come back to this next week, Nov 16
        AP: Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
    - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16 (report not ready) → Nov 23: link
      - 11-30: Thoralf Czichy significant number of items which were planned for Release I will be delayed to Release J. However, they are being worked on so confidence is high that they will be delivered in Release J timeframe. Some bug fixes in Release I, others moved to Release J. Work continues to enable Release I. Detailed RIC Platform project report is available here.
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
      - 11-16: Team data set in Nexus - publicly available to read. AI/ML team looking into model training. Energy savings data set being reviewed by NTUST. Release I will deliver the enablers and E2E demo will be available in release J.

7. 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)

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template. 11-16: Ongoing
- 12-14: 12-7 Minutes Approved
- 12:14: AP for Joint Workshop PR Closed
- 12-14: Release Conditionally Approved
- 12-21: 12-14 Minutes Approved
- 12-21: Release Conditions are satisfied within the time bound so the release is approved.
- Next Meeting 1/4/24.

2023 12 14

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Jinri Huang (CMCC) (12/7 from Recording), David Kinsey (AT&T (12/14 from recording), TBD (12/21)
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	X
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy	X
Orange	Julien Boudani
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.

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting 2023-12-07 (maintain only the items for current month): Motion proposed by John-Paul and seconded by Avinash, motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
1. Walk Ons? No new items added
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 12-07: No New Items this week
2. 12-07: OAI Roadmap 12-14
3. 12-14: OAI Vision presented by Irfan and Ganesh.
4. 12-14: Luis nominates Peng Lu from Intel to take the O-DU Low Phy PTL role as he will be retiring from Intel effective January 5, 2024. link
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
  1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
  2. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
    2. OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
      1. 11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
    3. 12-14 David Kinsey [AT&T] OpenAir Interface Action Item is complete
  3. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com No update this week. Will continue
2. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Nothing pending.
3. 12-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] Nothing pending.
4. 12-14: Motion from Thoralf to approve the release with the condition that the three outstanding projects, which the PTL were not represented (RICAPP, SMO, DOC) would close their project activities by 12/21. Seconded by John-Paul. Motion was Approved
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
      1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected;
      2. 11-09: Jakub Novy [DTAG] mentioned that SCCL was discussed at this week's OSFG meeting, Suggest to follow up at next week TOC. More decisions needed at O-RAN level.
      3. 11-16: Jakub Novy [DTAG] There is a meeting with O-RAN legal next week to review any potential issues.
      4. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] A meeting took place with tooling within WG10. ACOP also needs to be consulted over the process. Jakub Novy [DTAG] to provide update on meeting with O-RAN legal.
      5. 12-07: Jakub Novy [DTAG] Not much to report. Got some feedback from O-RAN legal on brainstorming phase of WG10; Also checking with ETSI, Doug is helping. David Kinsey [AT&T] currently pushing SCCL with WG3, WG10 and WG4.John Keeney (Ericsson EST) is of interest of publishing R1 related files with SCCL from WG2. David Kinsey [AT&T] R1 related file may end up be an Open API.
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. Joint Workshop: https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/
        11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN;
        11-09: OpenAir Interface reminder that workshop happens at Innovation Campus in Burlington not Boston Downtown. Approx 150 registered participants. Full agenda.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface to resend agenda to mailing list.
        11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft -
        11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR.
        11-09: See AP review above.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
        OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
        11-16: OpenAir Interface The workshop was generally very well attended. NTIA and NSF attended to give government perspective on O-RAN. Good to get the opportunity to address government agencies directly. Demos were very well received. Presented the next phases of collaboration between OSC and OAI e.g. Nephio and OSC collaboration for SMO and relationship to OAI. Meeting next week with Radisys to discuss potential integration of OAI CU with OSC. Next steps are to try to operationalise the OSC collaboration roadmap with, for example, Nephio. Recordings of workshop, poster sessions and demo sessions to be made available online shortly. Need to have a plan / roadmap for OSC features through 2024 similar to the OAI roadmap.
        11-16: Tracy Van Brakle There is an opportunity for teams to present demo proposals at the upcoming North America O-RAN plugfest readout on Nov 29th. Tracy will post further information to the public mailing list.
        11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Readout meeting took place for North American O-RAN plugfest. Some outstanding demonstrations were presented. Demonstrators and participants from industry an university faculty students. Mini-PR to be discussed to mark this event. Funding is starting to come from O-RAN Alliance and government agencies (in US and beyond). Martin Skorupski it was good to see things moving in alignment between the O-RAN Alliance and open source.
        11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] will prepare PR regarding the Boston meeting of OSC and OAI. OpenAir Interface has shared the summary of meeting with OAI steering meeting. Interesting to learn that Nephio has input into the SMO (FOCOM).
        11-30: OpenAir Interface Next steps are to present a joint roadmap. Should be presented to and reviewed by the OSC TOC. David Kinsey [AT&T] there is a challenge for OSC to do better with creating a multi-release feature roadmap.
        11-30: OpenAir Interface follow-up discussions are already taking place for the traffic network functions. For example, Radisys are working on the O-DU integration with OAI. The workshop really helped to kickstart this collaboration between OSC and OAI. David Kinsey [AT&T] Do we continue to use the OSC O-DU (Low) or do we start to look towards OAI for this function? Ankit Barve has taken an action point at RSAC to investigate a mix n match approach with OSC and OAI for O-DU. Should have a clearer picture on this over the coming weeks.
        12-07: OpenAir Interface The document that I prepared basically was co-signed by Ganesh and I'd like permission from Ganesh to be able to present. David Kinsey [AT&T] we'll put it on for next week.
        12-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] has a draft for the joint workshop PR but needs get approval from AT&T. Still a pending question about O-DU-low, needs a decision with the roadmap to whether to keep the O-DU-low project. Need to send those questions to Lewis from Intel.
        12-14: We walked through the OAI O-CU + OSC O-DU-High + OAI O-DU-Low presentation by Ganesh Shenbagaraman and OpenAir Interface to be found in the Toc Documents folder
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle: Draft of First version - aiming for Release 0 at end of year.
        Link for those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
      2. 11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Meeting planned for December 14th to review the roadmap with O-RAN Alliance TSC co-chairs. OSFG meeting Monday 4th will review (5am PT).
      3. 11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Need blueprint status, technical issues and roadmap as input to the TSC co-chair meeting.
      4. 11-30: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Plans to approach Jindrich Brett in O-RAN Alliance to confirm process for voting on a vendor co-chair for OSFG
      5. 12-07: Tracy Van Brakle The roadmap of the blueprint is in the form of a white paper and it's a drafty draft on OSFG contribution page. David Kinsey [AT&T] where's O-Cloud in this phase 1 (early iteration)? Nephio is just an enabler. We need O-Cloud to interconnect our labs. Tracy Van Brakle For the road map, introduce O-Cloud as a starting point, 4th quarter 2023; and then Cloudify O-Cloud, 2nd quarter 2024 (deployment by the SMO using O2 interface). David Kinsey [AT&T] when should we be targeting a demonstration with an OAI network function, using an OSC SMO to deploy it with Nephio enablers? 3 roadmaps (OSC, OAI, Nephio) have to be aligned. Saw demo at the workshop that use SMO + Near RT RIC + xApp on A1 to make policy change for DU bandwidth. So something is there but needs to be more generalized. Bala from Red Hat indicates that Nephio is creating their user stories and priorities for the R3 release (starting early 2024 towards the middle of 2024), and O2 IMS is one of them. Tracy Van Brakle Doug and I will see where srsRAN might fit in, and when if they do. srsRAN expressed their interest to participate.
    4. Other
      1. 11-09: Mix up with times for this week's OSFG meeting. Calendar has now been updated to 7AM EST (huangjinri@chinamobile.com).
      2. 12-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] need to work out the scribe. huangjinri@chinamobile.com will do 12/7, and David Kinsey [AT&T] can do 12/14. May need one for 12/21. jboudani can do January 2024, starting from 1/4.
Standing/old business

1. OSC Lab
  1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle Looking forward to discussions in Boston of having OSC labs working for upcoming plugfest, but also for experimentation & demos
    1. See also links from OSFG last week. For those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
  2. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Bedminster lab remains down. Considering consolidation into a different AT&T lab, in a different location (still NJ), which is more aligned with OSC work. Access processes should be similar to current access process. AP on David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review and revert.
  3. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] proposals for lab contract to be reviewed within AT&T. Work is ongoing and progress is being made. Next two weeks are critical in order to get funding from O-RAN Alliance and finalise lab plans.
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
  2. 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. 11-09: See AP review above.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com: This table is for mapping template between project & specs. No update this week. Will continue
  3. 11-09: Sridhar Rao License Scanning will be complete with report by 10 Dec. See checklist on wikipage: Release Checklist#I-Release
  4. 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
  5. 11-16: Sridhar has reviewed the status of release I documentation. Many documents still outstanding. AP: All PTLs to update release I checklist and ensure a plan to finalise release docs.
  6. 11-30: Sridhar Rao is not seeing updates on wiki release pages. Based on current lack of progress, it may be difficult to meet release deadlines for December. PTLs and teams need more urgency in updating release I pages / wiki, highlights, release checklist and other release-relevant documentation. Once all documentation is ready, the only thing required is a TOC release vote.
  7. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Release I date is provisionally targeting 25th - 29th December. This may be challenging for some. Need to agree a date for the release vote to take place. Thoralf Czichy suggests the 14th December (keeping 21st December as a backup) for the Release I vote. David Kinsey [AT&T] made motion to release on 14th December, Thoralf Czichy seconded. Motion approved.
  8. 12-07: Sridhar Rao From the I release checklist page, only 5 projects NONRTRIC, RICPLT, ODUHIGH*, INF, AIMLFW completed the committed features. Need all PTLs to work and complete by next Thursday for release vote.For the "Release documentation for Blog/Article on Release" item will have a dedicated marketing person to update the wiki and generate a PR for I release. Ankit Barve how about "Features Implemented Mapping to O-RAN Spec by Project" table for I release? David Kinsey [AT&T] It might be kept at the project level for each PTL to fill in the details of the O-RAN specs impacting features. Ankit Barve Propose to add as a last section to the project.
3. 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)

- - - E2E call - pairwise testing, lijian56 , Nov. 2
    - Lab updates, lijian56 , Nov. 2
      - 11-02: Presentation here
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: N.K. Shankaranarayanan Provided a update on Opensource projects in SMO space & mapping to 'Decoupled SMO Architecture'
        Presentation: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/12948665/dec_smo_flows_v1.4_20231109.pptx?api=v2
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com Suggestion to add dates to slides as they change.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: No update this week.
        Come back to this next week, Nov 16
        AP: Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
    - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16 (report not ready) → Nov 23: link
      - 11-30: Thoralf Czichy significant number of items which were planned for Release I will be delayed to Release J. However, they are being worked on so confidence is high that they will be delivered in Release J timeframe. Some bug fixes in Release I, others moved to Release J. Work continues to enable Release I. Detailed RIC Platform project report is available here.
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
      - 11-16: Team data set in Nexus - publicly available to read. AI/ML team looking into model training. Energy savings data set being reviewed by NTUST. Release I will deliver the enablers and E2E demo will be available in release J.

7. 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)

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template. 11-16: Ongoing
- 11-09: Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com seconded by Jakub Novy [DTAG], motion approved unanimously.
- 11-09: AP: OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
- 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist. 11-16: Done. All PTLs to update the release I wiki. See new AP.
- 11-09: AP: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Thoralf Czichy Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Alex Stancu Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
- 11-16: AP: All PTLs Release I checklist needs to be updated on wiki by all PTLs.
- 11-16: AP: David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review OSC lab contract with AT&T.
- 11-30: Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting 2023-11-16: Motion proposed by John Paul Lane seconded by huangjinri@chinamobile.com, motion approved unanimously.
- 11-30: AP David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review and revert on status of OSC lab in Bedminster.

2023 12 07

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Jinri Huang (CMCC) (12/7 from Recording), TBD (12/14), TBD (12/21)
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney	X
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy	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	X	Peter Moonki Hong

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

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting 2023-11-30 (maintain only the items for current month): Motion proposed by John Keeney (Ericsson EST) seconded by Avinash Bhat , motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
1. Walk Ons? No new items added
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 12-07: No New Items this week
2. 12-07: OAI Roadmap 12-14
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
  1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
  2. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
    2. OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
      1. 11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
  3. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com No update this week. Will continue
2. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Nothing pending.
3. 12-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] Nothing pending.
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
      1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected;
      2. 11-09: Jakub Novy [DTAG] mentioned that SCCL was discussed at this week's OSFG meeting, Suggest to follow up at next week TOC. More decisions needed at O-RAN level.
      3. 11-16: Jakub Novy [DTAG] There is a meeting with O-RAN legal next week to review any potential issues.
      4. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] A meeting took place with tooling within WG10. ACOP also needs to be consulted over the process. Jakub Novy [DTAG] to provide update on meeting with O-RAN legal.
      5. 12-07: Jakub Novy [DTAG] Not much to report. Got some feedback from O-RAN legal on brainstorming phase of WG10; Also checking with ETSI, Doug is helping. David Kinsey [AT&T] currently pushing SCCL with WG3, WG10 and WG4.John Keeney (Ericsson EST) is of interest of publishing R1 related files with SCCL from WG2. David Kinsey [AT&T] R1 related file may end up be an Open API.
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. Joint Workshop: https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/
        11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN;
        11-09: OpenAir Interface reminder that workshop happens at Innovation Campus in Burlington not Boston Downtown. Approx 150 registered participants. Full agenda.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface to resend agenda to mailing list.
        11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft -
        11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR.
        11-09: See AP review above.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
        OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
        11-16: OpenAir Interface The workshop was generally very well attended. NTIA and NSF attended to give government perspective on O-RAN. Good to get the opportunity to address government agencies directly. Demos were very well received. Presented the next phases of collaboration between OSC and OAI e.g. Nephio and OSC collaboration for SMO and relationship to OAI. Meeting next week with Radisys to discuss potential integration of OAI CU with OSC. Next steps are to try to operationalise the OSC collaboration roadmap with, for example, Nephio. Recordings of workshop, poster sessions and demo sessions to be made available online shortly. Need to have a plan / roadmap for OSC features through 2024 similar to the OAI roadmap.
        11-16: Tracy Van Brakle There is an opportunity for teams to present demo proposals at the upcoming North America O-RAN plugfest readout on Nov 29th. Tracy will post further information to the public mailing list.
        11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Readout meeting took place for North American O-RAN plugfest. Some outstanding demonstrations were presented. Demonstrators and participants from industry an university faculty students. Mini-PR to be discussed to mark this event. Funding is starting to come from O-RAN Alliance and government agencies (in US and beyond). Martin Skorupski it was good to see things moving in alignment between the O-RAN Alliance and open source.
        11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] will prepare PR regarding the Boston meeting of OSC and OAI. OpenAir Interface has shared the summary of meeting with OAI steering meeting. Interesting to learn that Nephio has input into the SMO (FOCOM).
        11-30: OpenAir Interface Next steps are to present a joint roadmap. Should be presented to and reviewed by the OSC TOC. David Kinsey [AT&T] there is a challenge for OSC to do better with creating a multi-release feature roadmap.
        11-30: OpenAir Interface follow-up discussions are already taking place for the traffic network functions. For example, Radisys are working on the O-DU integration with OAI. The workshop really helped to kickstart this collaboration between OSC and OAI. David Kinsey [AT&T] Do we continue to use the OSC O-DU (Low) or do we start to look towards OAI for this function? Ankit Barve has taken an action point at RSAC to investigate a mix n match approach with OSC and OAI for O-DU. Should have a clearer picture on this over the coming weeks.
        12-07: OpenAir Interface The document that I prepared basically was co-signed by Ganesh and I'd like permission from Ganesh to be able to present. David Kinsey [AT&T] we'll put it on for next week.
        12-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] has a draft for the joint workshop PR but needs get approval from AT&T. Still a pending question about O-DU-low, needs a decision with the roadmap to whether to keep the O-DU-low project. Need to send those questions to Lewis from Intel.
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle: Draft of First version - aiming for Release 0 at end of year.
        Link for those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
      2. 11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Meeting planned for December 14th to review the roadmap with O-RAN Alliance TSC co-chairs. OSFG meeting Monday 4th will review (5am PT).
      3. 11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Need blueprint status, technical issues and roadmap as input to the TSC co-chair meeting.
      4. 11-30: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Plans to approach Jindrich Brett in O-RAN Alliance to confirm process for voting on a vendor co-chair for OSFG
      5. 12-07: Tracy Van Brakle The roadmap of the blueprint is in the form of a white paper and it's a drafty draft on OSFG contribution page. David Kinsey [AT&T] where's O-Cloud in this phase 1 (early iteration)? Nephio is just an enabler. We need O-Cloud to interconnect our labs. Tracy Van Brakle For the road map, introduce O-Cloud as a starting point, 4th quarter 2023; and then Cloudify O-Cloud, 2nd quarter 2024 (deployment by the SMO using O2 interface). David Kinsey [AT&T] when should we be targeting a demonstration with an OAI network function, using an OSC SMO to deploy it with Nephio enablers? 3 roadmaps (OSC, OAI, Nephio) have to be aligned. Saw demo at the workshop that use SMO + Near RT RIC + xApp on A1 to make policy change for DU bandwidth. So something is there but needs to be more generalized. Bala from Red Hat indicates that Nephio is creating their user stories and priorities for the R3 release (starting early 2024 towards the middle of 2024), and O2 IMS is one of them. Tracy Van Brakle Doug and I will see where srsRAN might fit in, and when if they do. srsRAN expressed their interest to participate.
    4. Other
      1. 11-09: Mix up with times for this week's OSFG meeting. Calendar has now been updated to 7AM EST (huangjinri@chinamobile.com).
      2. 12-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] need to work out the scribe. huangjinri@chinamobile.com will do 12/7, and David Kinsey [AT&T] can do 12/14. May need one for 12/21. jboudani can do January 2024, starting from 1/4.
Standing/old business

1. OSC Lab
  1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle Looking forward to discussions in Boston of having OSC labs working for upcoming plugfest, but also for experimentation & demos
    1. See also links from OSFG last week. For those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
  2. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Bedminster lab remains down. Considering consolidation into a different AT&T lab, in a different location (still NJ), which is more aligned with OSC work. Access processes should be similar to current access process. AP on David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review and revert.
  3. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] proposals for lab contract to be reviewed within AT&T. Work is ongoing and progress is being made. Next two weeks are critical in order to get funding from O-RAN Alliance and finalise lab plans.
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
  2. 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. 11-09: See AP review above.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com: This table is for mapping template between project & specs. No update this week. Will continue
  3. 11-09: Sridhar Rao License Scanning will be complete with report by 10 Dec. See checklist on wikipage: Release Checklist#I-Release
  4. 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
  5. 11-16: Sridhar has reviewed the status of release I documentation. Many documents still outstanding. AP: All PTLs to update release I checklist and ensure a plan to finalise release docs.
  6. 11-30: Sridhar Rao is not seeing updates on wiki release pages. Based on current lack of progress, it may be difficult to meet release deadlines for December. PTLs and teams need more urgency in updating release I pages / wiki, highlights, release checklist and other release-relevant documentation. Once all documentation is ready, the only thing required is a TOC release vote.
  7. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Release I date is provisionally targeting 25th - 29th December. This may be challenging for some. Need to agree a date for the release vote to take place. Thoralf Czichy suggests the 14th December (keeping 21st December as a backup) for the Release I vote. David Kinsey [AT&T] made motion to release on 14th December, Thoralf Czichy seconded. Motion approved.
  8. 12-07: Sridhar Rao From the I release checklist page, only 5 projects NONRTRIC, RICPLT, ODUHIGH*, INF, AIMLFW completed the committed features. Need all PTLs to work and complete by next Thursday for release vote.For the "Release documentation for Blog/Article on Release" item will have a dedicated marketing person to update the wiki and generate a PR for I release. Ankit Barve how about "Features Implemented Mapping to O-RAN Spec by Project" table for I release? David Kinsey [AT&T] It might be kept at the project level for each PTL to fill in the details of the O-RAN specs impacting features. Ankit Barve Propose to add as a last section to the project.
3. 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)

- - - E2E call - pairwise testing, lijian56 , Nov. 2
    - Lab updates, lijian56 , Nov. 2
      - 11-02: Presentation here
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: N.K. Shankaranarayanan Provided a update on Opensource projects in SMO space & mapping to 'Decoupled SMO Architecture'
        Presentation: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/12948665/dec_smo_flows_v1.4_20231109.pptx?api=v2
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com Suggestion to add dates to slides as they change.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: No update this week.
        Come back to this next week, Nov 16
        AP: Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
    - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16 (report not ready) → Nov 23: link
      - 11-30: Thoralf Czichy significant number of items which were planned for Release I will be delayed to Release J. However, they are being worked on so confidence is high that they will be delivered in Release J timeframe. Some bug fixes in Release I, others moved to Release J. Work continues to enable Release I. Detailed RIC Platform project report is available here.
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
      - 11-16: Team data set in Nexus - publicly available to read. AI/ML team looking into model training. Energy savings data set being reviewed by ST. Release I will deliver the enablers and E2E demo will be available in release J.

7. 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)

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template. 11-16: Ongoing
- 11-09: Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com seconded by Jakub Novy [DTAG], motion approved unanimously.
- 11-09: AP: OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
- 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist. 11-16: Done. All PTLs to update the release I wiki. See new AP.
- 11-09: AP: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Thoralf Czichy Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Alex Stancu Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
- 11-16: AP: All PTLs Release I checklist needs to be updated on wiki by all PTLs.
- 11-16: AP: David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review OSC lab contract with AT&T.
- 11-30: Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting 2023-11-16: Motion proposed by John Paul Lane seconded by huangjinri@chinamobile.com, motion approved unanimously.
- 11-30: AP David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review and revert on status of OSC lab in Bedminster.

2023 11 30

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): John-Paul Lane (Ericsson)
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	x
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový		Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	x	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii		Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy	x
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	x
TIM	Andrea Buldorini	?
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.

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting 2023-11-16 (maintain only the items for current month): Motion proposed by John Paul Lane seconded by huangjinri@chinamobile.com, motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
1. No new items added
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 11-30 Call for scribe for December. CMCC will scribe for first meeting.
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
  1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
  2. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
    2. OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
      1. 11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
  3. 11-09: Review AP: 110-2: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com No update this week. Will continue
2. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Nothing pending.
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
      1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected;
      2. 11-09: Jakub Novy [DTAG] mentioned that SCCL was discussed at this week's OSFG meeting, Suggest to follow up at next week TOC. More decisions needed at O-RAN level.
      3. 11-16: Jakub Novy [DTAG] There is a meeting with O-RAN legal next week to review any potential issues.
      4. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] A meeting took place with tooling within WG10. ACOP also needs to be consulted over the process. Jakub Novy [DTAG] to provide update on meeting with O-RAN legal.
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. Joint Workshop: https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/
        11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN;
        11-09: OpenAir Interface reminder that workshop happens at Innovation Campus in Burlington not Boston Downtown. Approx 150 registered participants. Full agenda.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface to resend agenda to mailing list.
        11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft -
        11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR.
        11-09: See AP review above.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
        OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
        11-16: OpenAir Interface The workshop was generally very well attended. NTIA and NSF attended to give government perspective on O-RAN. Good to get the opportunity to address government agencies directly. Demos were very well received. Presented the next phases of collaboration between OSC and OAI e.g. Nephio and OSC collaboration for SMO and relationship to OAI. Meeting next week with Radisys to discuss potential integration of OAI CU with OSC. Next steps are to try to operationalise the OSC collaboration roadmap with, for example, Nephio. Recordings of workshop, poster sessions and demo sessions to be made available online shortly. Need to have a plan / roadmap for OSC features through 2024 similar to the OAI roadmap.
        11-16: Tracy Van Brakle There is an opportunity for teams to present demo proposals at the upcoming North America O-RAN plugfest readout on Nov 29th. Tracy will post further information to the public mailing list.
        11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Readout meeting took place for North American O-RAN plugfest. Some outstanding demonstrations were presented. Demonstrators and participants from industry an university faculty students. Mini-PR to be discussed to mark this event. Funding is starting to come from O-RAN Alliance and government agencies (in US and beyond). Martin Skorupski it was good to see things moving in alignment between the O-RAN Alliance and open source.
        11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] will prepare PR regarding the Boston meeting of OSC and OAI. OpenAir Interface has shared the summary of meeting with OAI steering meeting. Interesting to learn that Nephio has input into the SMO (FOCOM).
        11-30: OpenAir Interface Next steps are to present a joint roadmap. Should be presented to and reviewed by the OSC TOC. David Kinsey [AT&T] there is a challenge for OSC to do better with creating a multi-release feature roadmap.
        11-30: OpenAir Interface follow-up discussions are already taking place for the traffic network functions. For example, Radisys are working on the O-DU integration with OAI. The workshop really helped to kickstart this collaboration between OSC and OAI. David Kinsey [AT&T] Do we continue to use the OSC O-DU (Low) or do we start to look towards OAI for this function? Ankit Barve has taken an action point at RSAC to investigate a mix n match approach with OSC and OAI for O-DU. Should have a clearer picture on this over the coming weeks.
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle: Draft of First version - aiming for Release 0 at end of year.
        Link for those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
      2. 11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Meeting planned for December 14th to review the roadmap with O-RAN Alliance TSC co-chairs. OSFG meeting Monday 4th will review (5am PT).
      3. 11-30: Tracy Van Brakle Need blueprint status, technical issues and roadmap as input to the TSC co-chair meeting.
      4. 11-30: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Plans to approach Jindrich Brett in O-RAN Alliance to confirm process for voting on a vendor co-chair for OSFG
    4. Other
      1. 11-09: Mix up with times for this week's OSFG meeting. Calendar has now been updated to 7AM EST (huangjinri@chinamobile.com).
Standing/old business

1. OSC Lab
  1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle Looking forward to discussions in Boston of having OSC labs working for upcoming plugfest, but also for experimentation & demos
    1. See also links from OSFG last week. For those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
  2. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Bedminster lab remains down. Considering consolidation into a different AT&T lab, in a different location (still NJ), which is more aligned with OSC work. Access processes should be similar to current access process. AP on David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review and revert.
  3. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] proposals for lab contract to be reviewed within AT&T. Work is ongoing and progress is being made. Next two weeks are critical in order to get funding from O-RAN Alliance and finalise lab plans.
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
  2. 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. 11-09: See AP review above.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com: This table is for mapping template between project & specs. No update this week. Will continue
  3. 11-09: Sridhar Rao License Scanning will be complete with report by 10 Dec. See checklist on wikipage: Release Checklist#I-Release
  4. 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
  5. 11-16: Sridhar has reviewed the status of release I documentation. Many documents still outstanding. AP: All PTLs to update release I checklist and ensure a plan to finalise release docs.
  6. 11-30: Sridhar Rao is not seeing updates on wiki release pages. Based on current lack of progress, it may be difficult to meet release deadlines for December. PTLs and teams need more urgency in updating release I pages / wiki, highlights, release checklist and other release-relevant documentation. Once all documentation is ready, the only thing required is a TOC release vote.
  7. 11-30: David Kinsey [AT&T] Release I date is provisionally targeting 25th - 29th December. This may be challenging for some. Need to agree a date for the release vote to take place. Thoralf Czichy suggests the 14th December (keeping 21st December as a backup) for the Release I vote. David Kinsey [AT&T] made motion to release on 14th December, Thoralf Czichy seconded. Motion approved.
3. 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)

- - - E2E call - pairwise testing, lijian56 , Nov. 2
    - Lab updates, lijian56 , Nov. 2
      - 11-02: Presentation here
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: N.K. Shankaranarayanan Provided a update on Opensource projects in SMO space & mapping to 'Decoupled SMO Architecture'
        Presentation: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/12948665/dec_smo_flows_v1.4_20231109.pptx?api=v2
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com Suggestion to add dates to slides as they change.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: No update this week.
        Come back to this next week, Nov 16
        AP: Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
    - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16 (report not ready) → Nov 23: link
      - 11-30: Thoralf Czichy significant number of items which were planned for Release I will be delayed to Release J. However, they are being worked on so confidence is high that they will be delivered in Release J timeframe. Some bug fixes in Release I, others moved to Release J. Work continues to enable Release I. Detailed RIC Platform project report is available here.
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
      - 11-16: Team data set in Nexus - publicly available to read. AI/ML team looking into model training. Energy savings data set being reviewed by NTUST. Release I will deliver the enablers and E2E demo will be available in release J.

7. 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)

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template. 11-16: Ongoing
- 11-09: Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com seconded by Jakub Novy [DTAG], motion approved unanimously.
- 11-09: AP: OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
- 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist. 11-16: Done. All PTLs to update the release I wiki. See new AP.
- 11-09: AP: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Thoralf Czichy Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Alex Stancu Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
- 11-16: AP: All PTLs Release I checklist needs to be updated on wiki by all PTLs.
- 11-16: AP: David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review OSC lab contract with AT&T.
- 11-30: Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting 2023-11-16: Motion proposed by John Paul Lane seconded by huangjinri@chinamobile.com, motion approved unanimously.
- 11-30: AP David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review and revert on status of OSC lab in Bedminster.

2023 11 23 - No Meeting Due to Thanksgiving Holidays in US

Recording

Meeting Recording:

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): John-Paul Lane (Ericsson)
Previous scribe: 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	Alternate Contact
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid	Thoralf Czichy
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	Ankit Barve
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
Wind River	Jackie Huang	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.

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting (maintain only the items for current month): Motion proposed by John Paul Lane seconded by ?, motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
1. No new items added
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. No new items added.
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
  1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
  2. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
    2. OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
      1. 11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
  3. 11-09: Review AP: 110-2: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com No update this week. Will continue
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
      1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected;
      2. 11-09: Jakub Novy [DTAG] mentioned that SCCL was discussed at this week's OSFG meeting, Suggest to follow up at next week TOC. More decisions needed at O-RAN level.
      3. 11-16: Jakub Novy [DTAG] There is a meeting with O-RAN legal next week to review any potential issues.
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. Joint Workshop: https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/
        11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN;
        11-09: OpenAir Interface reminder that workshop happens at Innovation Campus in Burlington not Boston Downtown. Approx 150 registered participants. Full agenda.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface to resend agenda to mailing list.
        11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft -
        11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR.
        11-09: See AP review above.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
        OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
        11-16: OpenAir Interface The workshop was generally very well attended. NTIA and NSF attended to give government perspective on O-RAN. Good to get the opportunity to address government agencies directly. Demos were very well received. Presented the next phases of collaboration between OSC and OAI e.g. Nephio and OSC collaboration for SMO and relationship to OAI. Meeting next week with Radisys to discuss potential integration of OAI CU with OSC. Next steps are to try to operationalise the OSC collaboration roadmap with, for example, Nephio. Recordings of workshop, poster sessions and demo sessions to be made available online shortly. Need to have a plan / roadmap for OSC features through 2024 similar to the OAI roadmap.
        11-16: Tracy Van Brakle There is an opportunity for teams to present demo proposals at the upcoming North America O-RAN plugfest readout on Nov 29th. Tracy will post further information to the public mailing list. N
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle: Draft of First version - aiming for Release 0 at end of year.
        Link for those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
    4. Other
      1. 11-09: Mix up with times for this week's OSFG meeting. Calendar has now been updated to 7AM EST (huangjinri@chinamobile.com).
Standing/old business

1. OSC Lab
  1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle Looking forward to discussions in Boston of having OSC labs working for upcoming plugfest, but also for experimentation & demos
    1. See also links from OSFG last week. For those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
  2. 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. 11-09: See AP review above.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com: This table is for mapping template between project & specs. No update this week. Will continue
  3. 11-09: Sridhar Rao License Scanning will be complete with report by 10 Dec. See checklist on wikipage: Release Checklist#I-Release
  4. 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
  5. 11-16: Sridhar has reviewed the status of release I documentation. Many documents still outstanding. AP: All PTLs to update release I checklist and ensure a plan to finalise release docs.
3. 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)

- - - E2E call - pairwise testing, lijian56 , Nov. 2
    - Lab updates, lijian56 , Nov. 2
      - 11-02: Presentation here
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: N.K. Shankaranarayanan Provided a update on Opensource projects in SMO space & mapping to 'Decoupled SMO Architecture'
        Presentation: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/12948665/dec_smo_flows_v1.4_20231109.pptx?api=v2
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com Suggestion to add dates to slides as they change.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: No update this week.
        Come back to this next week, Nov 16
        AP: Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
    - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16 (report not ready) → Nov 23: link
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
      - 11-16: Team data set in Nexus - publicly available to read. AI/ML team looking into model training. Energy savings data set being reviewed by ST. Release I will deliver the enablers and E2E demo will be available in release J.

7. 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)

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template. 11-16: Ongoing
- 11-09: Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com seconded by Jakub Novy [DTAG], motion approved unanimously.
- 11-09: AP: OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
- 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist. 11-16: Done. All PTLs to update the release I wiki. See new AP.
- 11-09: AP: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Thoralf Czichy Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Alex Stancu Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
- 11-16: AP: All PTLs Release I checklist needs to be updated on wiki by all PTLs.
- 11-16: AP: David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review OSC lab contract with AT&T.

2023 11 16

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): John-Paul Lane (Ericsson)
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	x
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	x	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	x	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii		Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy	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	x	Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	x	Peter Moonki Hong

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

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting (maintain only the items for current month): Motion proposed by John Paul Lane seconded by Jakub Novy [DTAG], motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
1. No new items added
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 11-02: Federico introduced himself. Together with him are two of his colleagues, Chris and Bala. They expressed the contributing interest from Redhat to OSC. A big and warm welcome from the team. Thrilled to see the new contribution source. Federico further indicated that they are both in Nephio and OSC. Plus, some of his colleagues will be attending the joint OSC-OAI workshop in Nov. Plus, the initial interest of area in OSC from Redhat would be on the infrastructure project.
2. 11-02: Agreement: Proposal suggested by Jinri to remove the notes (strike out) from previous months when starting the notes for a new month. Otherwise the message would be too clumsy and repetitive. Team agree
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
  1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
  2. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
    2. OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
      1. 11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
  3. 11-09: Review AP: 110-2: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com No update this week. Will continue
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
      1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected;
      2. 11-09: Jakub Novy [DTAG] mentioned that SCCL was discussed at this week's OSFG meeting, Suggest to follow up at next week TOC. More decisions needed at O-RAN level.
      3. 11-16: Jakub Novy [DTAG] There is a meeting with O-RAN legal next week to review any potential issues.
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. Joint Workshop: https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/
        11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN;
        11-09: OpenAir Interface reminder that workshop happens at Innovation Campus in Burlington not Boston Downtown. Approx 150 registered participants. Full agenda.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface to resend agenda to mailing list.
        11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft -
        11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR.
        11-09: See AP review above.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
        OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
        11-16: OpenAir Interface The workshop was generally very well attended. NTIA and NSF attended to give government perspective on O-RAN. Good to get the opportunity to address government agencies directly. Demos were very well received. Presented the next phases of collaboration between OSC and OAI e.g. Nephio and OSC collaboration for SMO and relationship to OAI. Meeting next week with Radisys to discuss potential integration of OAI CU with OSC. Next steps are to try to operationalise the OSC collaboration roadmap with, for example, Nephio. Recordings of workshop, poster sessions and demo sessions to be made available online shortly. Need to have a plan / roadmap for OSC features through 2024 similar to the OAI roadmap.
        11-16: Tracy Van Brakle There is an opportunity for teams to present demo proposals at the upcoming North America O-RAN plugfest readout on Nov 29th. Tracy will post further information to the public mailing list. N
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle: Draft of First version - aiming for Release 0 at end of year.
        Link for those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
    4. Other
      1. 11-09: Mix up with times for this week's OSFG meeting. Calendar has now been updated to 7AM EST (huangjinri@chinamobile.com).
Standing/old business

1. OSC Lab
  1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle Looking forward to discussions in Boston of having OSC labs working for upcoming plugfest, but also for experimentation & demos
    1. See also links from OSFG last week. For those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
  2. 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. 11-09: See AP review above.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com: This table is for mapping template between project & specs. No update this week. Will continue
  3. 11-09: Sridhar Rao License Scanning will be complete with report by 10 Dec. See checklist on wikipage: Release Checklist#I-Release
  4. 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
  5. 11-16: Sridhar has reviewed the status of release I documentation. Many documents still outstanding. AP: All PTLs to update release I checklist and ensure a plan to finalise release docs.
3. 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)

- - - E2E call - pairwise testing, lijian56 , Nov. 2
    - Lab updates, lijian56 , Nov. 2
      - 11-02: Presentation here
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: N.K. Shankaranarayanan Provided a update on Opensource projects in SMO space & mapping to 'Decoupled SMO Architecture'
        Presentation: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/12948665/dec_smo_flows_v1.4_20231109.pptx?api=v2
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com Suggestion to add dates to slides as they change.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: No update this week.
        Come back to this next week, Nov 16
        AP: Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
    - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
      - 11-16: Team data set in Nexus - publicly available to read. AI/ML team looking into model training. Energy savings data set being reviewed by ST. Release I will deliver the enablers and E2E demo will be available in release J.

7. 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)

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template. 11-16: Ongoing
- 11-09: Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com seconded by Jakub Novy [DTAG], motion approved unanimously.
- 11-09: AP: OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
- 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist. 11-16: Done. All PTLs to update the release I wiki. See new AP.
- 11-09: AP: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Thoralf Czichy Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Alex Stancu Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
- 11-16: AP: All PTLs Release I checklist needs to be updated on wiki by all PTLs.
- 11-16: AP: David Kinsey [AT&T] and Tracy Van Brakle to review OSC lab contract with AT&T.

2023 11 09

Recording

Meeting Recording: Recording

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): ~~John-Paul Lane (Ericsson)~~ John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	Y	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	Y	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane		John Keeney	Y
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii		Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy	(Joined @22min)
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	Y	Ankit Barve
TIM	Andrea Buldorini	Y
Wind River	Jackie Huang	Y	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly	Y	Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	Y	Peter Moonki Hong

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

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com seconded by Jakub Novy [DTAG], motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
1. No new items added
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 11-02: Federico introduced himself. Together with him are two of his colleagues, Chris and Bala. They expressed the contributing interest from Redhat to OSC. A big and warm welcome from the team. Thrilled to see the new contribution source. Federico further indicated that they are both in Nephio and OSC. Plus, some of his colleagues will be attending the joint OSC-OAI workshop in Nov. Plus, the initial interest of area in OSC from Redhat would be on the infrastructure project.
2. 11-02: Agreement: Proposal suggested by Jinri to remove the notes (strike out) from previous months when starting the notes for a new month. Otherwise the message would be too clumsy and repetitive. Team agree
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
  1. ~~11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix~~
  2. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
    2. OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
      1. 11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
  3. 11-09: Review AP: 110-2: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com No update this week. Will continue
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
      1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected;
      2. 11-09: Jakub Novy [DTAG] mentioned that SCCL was discussed at this week's OSFG meeting, Suggest to follow up at next week TOC. More decisions needed at O-RAN level.
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. Joint Workshop: https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/
        ~~11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN;~~
        11-09: OpenAir Interface reminder that workshop happens at Innovation Campus in Burlington not Boston Downtown. Approx 150 registered participants. Full agenda.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface to resend agenda to mailing list.
        11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft -
        11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR.
        11-09: See AP review above.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
        OpenAir Interface OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
        11-09 AP OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
      1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle: Draft of First version - aiming for Release 0 at end of year.
        Link for those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
    4. Other
      1. 11-09: Mix up with times for this week's OSFG meeting. Calendar has now been updated to 7AM EST (huangjinri@chinamobile.com).
Standing/old business

1. OSC Lab
  1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle Looking forward to discussions in Boston of having OSC labs working for upcoming plugfest, but also for experimentation & demos
    1. See also links from OSFG last week. For those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
  2. 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
    1. 11-09: See AP review above.
      1. huangjinri@chinamobile.com: This table is for mapping template between project & specs. No update this week. Will continue
  3. 11-09: Sridhar Rao License Scanning will be complete with report by 10 Dec. See checklist on wikipage: Release Checklist#I-Release
  4. 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
3. 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)

- - - E2E call - pairwise testing, lijian56 , Nov. 2
    - Lab updates, lijian56 , Nov. 2
      - ~~11-02: Presentation here~~
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: N.K. Shankaranarayanan Provided a update on Opensource projects in SMO space & mapping to 'Decoupled SMO Architecture'
        Presentation: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/12948665/dec_smo_flows_v1.4_20231109.pptx?api=v2
        huangjinri@chinamobile.com Suggestion to add dates to slides as they change.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
      - 11-09: No update this week.
        Come back to this next week, Nov 16
        AP: Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
    - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16
      - AP: Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16

7. 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)

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
- 11-09: Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com seconded by Jakub Novy [DTAG], motion approved unanimously.
- 11-09: AP: OpenAir Interface For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
- 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
- 11-09: AP: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Thoralf Czichy Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy on Nov 16
- 11-09: AP: Alex Stancu Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16

2023 11 02

Recording

Meeting Recording: See here

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Jinri Huang (CMCC)
Next scribe: November 2023: John Paul Lane will cover the remaining weeks
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii		Minami Ishii	X
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy	X
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
Wind River	Jackie Huang	X	Jon Zhang
Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly		Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	X	Peter Moonki Hong

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

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Ankit Barve, seconded by John-Paul Lane, motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 11-02: Federico introduced himself. Together with him are two of his colleagues, Chris and Bala. They expressed the contributing interest from Redhat to OSC. A big and warm welcome from the team. Thrilled to see the new contribution source. Federico further indicated that they are both in Nephio and OSC. Plus, some of his colleagues will be attending the joint OSC-OAI workshop in Nov. Plus, the initial interest of area in OSC from Redhat would be on the infrastructure project.
2. 11-02: Agreement: Proposal suggested by Jinri to remove the notes (strike out) from previous months when starting the notes for a new month. Otherwise the message would be too clumsy and repetitive. Team agreed.
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
  1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
      1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected;
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. 11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN;
      2. 11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR.
      3. 11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
    4. Others
      1. 11-02: Agreement: to remove the "O-RAN next phase" subsection since it may be duplicate with other parts;
Standing/old business

1. OSC Lab
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
  2. 1102: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
3. 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

- - - E2E call - pairwise testing, lijian56 , Nov. 2
    - Lab updates, lijian56 , Nov. 2
      - Presentation here
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
    - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16

7. Any Other Business (AoB)

8. Meeting Summary and Closure

- 11-02: Agreement: Proposal suggested by Jinri to remove the notes (strike out) from previous months when starting the notes for a new month. Otherwise the message would be too clumsy and repetitive. Team agreed
- 11-02: Agreement: to remove the "O-RAN next phase" subsection since it may be duplicate with other parts
- 11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
- 1102: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template

2023 10 26

Recording

Meeting Recording: O-RAN-SC TOC's Personal Meeting Room - Zoom

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Ultan.Kelly (Viavi)
Next scribe: November 2023: John Paul Lane apart from first week of November which will be huangjinri@chinamobile.com
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový		Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy	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.

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Ultan.Kelly seconded by avivgt motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
2. 2023-10-26: David Kinsey [AT&T] noted we are in the penultimate sprint for the I release.
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. 1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
      1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA huangjinri@chinamobile.com
        2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
        2023-09-14: Jakub Novy [DTAG] David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
      2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
      3. Anything else?
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. 2023-06-29: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" OpenAir Interface Robert Schmidt
      3. 2023-09-07: OpenAir Interface shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by OpenAir Interface
      4. 2023-09-14: OpenAir Interface provided an update on Committee Meeting.
        Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
        Made call for speakers and panels.
        Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
        David Kinsey [AT&T] Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
      5. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey [AT&T] highlighted the low participation from O-RAN SC in demo and keynote point of view. RIC, X-APP, AIML could be potential area. OpenAir Interface said O-RAN SC participation will be accommodated.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested for clarification on OAI,OSFG & ORAN SC relationship. David Kinsey [AT&T] clarified that the objective is to support the common goal of O-RAN Proliferation and showcase of O-RAN Capabilities with reference design.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested to get a clarification on the MoU. OpenAir Interface mentioned that it is very generic and is between O-RAN Alliance & OAI, doesn't cover any licensing details.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested clarification on licensing terms. OpenAir Interface clarified that each community will follow their respective community guidelines.
      6. 2023-10-12: OpenAir Interface Agenda for November Joint OSC-OAI Workshop is finalizing. Some final touch are being applied.
      7. 2023-10-26: OpenAir Interface and Seshu Kumar Mudiganti discussed November Joint OSC-OAI Workshop in Boston and noted an IMS orchestration topic that has momentum with both groups. One final speaking slot remains unfilled.
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle
      1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
        Work three things in parallel:
        demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
        AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
        EU
        North America
        sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
        O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
        Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
        Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
        2023-10-26: Blueprint still a work in progress and should have more information next week. A number of potential blueprints exist.
      2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October 17 to 19
        2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
        2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey [AT&T] OpenAir Interface
        2023-09-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey [AT&T] proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
        2023-09-14: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized. Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
        2023-09-21: David Kinsey [AT&T] reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out.
        2023-09-28: David Kinsey [AT&T] clarified that we have received 5 session (against the 7 requested) . huangjinri@chinamobile.com to invite all the O-RAN Alliance WGs for the sessions. David Kinsey [AT&T] will organize the schedule and update the F2F Event Page.
        2023-10-05: Registration is open and the agenda is being finalized and is still possible for more speakers to attend and space for demos, esp. interested in O-Cloud.
        2023-10-12: Some agenda items still in motion. Moving Wednesday Session with MVP-C to Monday. Need to re-take slot which was released. Need time slot since some MVP AI/ML members will be remote in China. Demo slots still open. Will release session if no more demos identified.
        2023-10-26: David Kinsey [AT&T] to post recordings of the various meetings. Had a discussion about the role of the various workgroups and their role defining interface and interface files. The AI/ML SMO Energy Saving use-case is aligned well with the OSC work with 4 modes of saving (Cell, channel mgmt, event sleep and cloud entity savings) but in the November Train the groups are still debating the granularity of control over the E2 interface to the DU. You may have fine-grain visibility but different level of controls.
    4. Others
      1. 2023-10-26: David Kinsey [AT&T] noted potential synergy between OSC and srsRAN Open Source RAN project as broad goals and projects may align. srsRAN may look to be ORAN compliant and interested to participate in plugfests.
Standing/old business

1. OSC Lab
  1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey [AT&T]
  2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
  3. 2023-10-05: Equipment is rack-and-stacked but not networked. David Kinsey [AT&T] Will have an update at the face-face meeting. Looking for an O-Cloud option.
  4. 2023-10-12: Supply Chain shortage, missing circuit breaker doesn't allow everything to be turned on. Missing chillers also means not too many things can be turned on due to temperature limits. No date when issue will be resolved.
  5. 2023-10-26 Same status with Supply Chain shortage and now may impact the I-Release, if there is no lab to test. Quotes for lab tooling are re-issued with the goal for end of year purchases.
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
  2. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey [AT&T] Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
  3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting. Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
  4. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
  5. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan.Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath
  6. 2023-09-28 Rittwik Jana provided an offline update:
    - the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
    - Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
    - Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
    - 2023-10-05: Nexus 3 Repo setup https://nexus3.o-ran-sc.org/repositories/datasets and once permissions are set Sridhar Rao to upload TIM data sets. Viavi data-sets still a WIP.
  7. 2023-10-05: No update but David Kinsey [AT&T] noted a three-week cycle for project updates and next one will after the face-face meeting.
3. Project reports (by features)
  1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
  2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
  3. Project Reports

- - - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023: link-to-2023-09-28-report
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023
      - Alex Stancu Could not be available. Provided the following status update:
        To summarize what has happened:
        the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
        Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
        Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan - 21 Sep 2023
      - 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
      - 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
      - 2023-10-12: Shankar presented draft of F2F material. David Kinsey [AT&T] noted that the material should be posted and available in advance for F2F. Updates can still occur after initial upload.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti - 21 Sep 2023
      - 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
      - 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
Any Other Business (AoB)
1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
4. 2023-08-31: David Kinsey [AT&T] will not be available end of October. huangjinri@chinamobile.com to take care in the absence of David.
Meeting Closure

2023 10 19

Recording

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Ultan.Kelly (Viavi)
Next scribe: November 2023:
Previous scribe: 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	Alternate Contact
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid	Thoralf Czichy
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	Ankit Barve
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
Wind River	Jackie Huang	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.

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com seconded by John Paul Lane motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. AP Review
1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
  1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
      1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA huangjinri@chinamobile.com
        2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
        2023-09-14: Jakub Novy [DTAG] David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
      2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
      3. Anything else?
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. 2023-06-29: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" OpenAir Interface Robert Schmidt
      3. 2023-09-07: OpenAir Interface shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by OpenAir Interface
      4. 2023-09-14: OpenAir Interface provided an update on Committee Meeting.
        Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
        Made call for speakers and panels.
        Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
        David Kinsey [AT&T] Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
      5. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey [AT&T] highlighted the low participation from O-RAN SC in demo and keynote point of view. RIC, X-APP, AIML could be potential area. OpenAir Interface said O-RAN SC participation will be accommodated.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested for clarification on OAI,OSFG & ORAN SC relationship. David Kinsey [AT&T] clarified that the objective is to support the common goal of O-RAN Proliferation and showcase of O-RAN Capabilities with reference design.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested to get a clarification on the MoU. OpenAir Interface mentioned that it is very generic and is between O-RAN Alliance & OAI, doesn't cover any licensing details.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested clarification on licensing terms. OpenAir Interface clarified that each community will follow their respective community guidelines.
      6. 2023-10-12: OpenAir Interface Agenda for November Joint OSC-OAI Workshop is finalizing. Some final touch are being applied.
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle
      1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
      2. Work three things in parallel:
        demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
        AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
        EU
        North America
        sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
        O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
        Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
        Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
  2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October 17 to 19
    1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
    2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey [AT&T] OpenAir Interface
    3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey [AT&T] proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
    4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized. Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
    5. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey [AT&T] reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out.
    6. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey [AT&T] clarified that we have received 5 session (against the 7 requested) . huangjinri@chinamobile.com to invite all the O-RAN Alliance WGs for the sessions. David Kinsey [AT&T] will organize the schedule and update the F2F Event Page.
    7. 2023-10-05: Registration is open and the agenda is being finalized and is still possible for more speakers to attend and space for demos, esp. interested in O-Cloud.
    8. 2023-10-12: Some agenda items still in motion. Moving Wednesday Session with MVP-C to Monday. Need to re-take slot which was released. Need time slot since some MVP AI/ML members will be remote in China. Demo slots still open. Will release session if no more demos identified.
2. Others
Standing/old business
1. OSC Lab
  1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey [AT&T]
  2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
  3. 2023-10-05: Equipment is rack-and-stacked but not networked. David Kinsey [AT&T] Will have an update at the face-face meeting. Looking for an O-Cloud option.
  4. 2023-10-12: Supply Chain shortage, missing circuit breaker doesn't allow everything to be turned on. Missing chillers also means not too many things can be turned on due to temperature limits. No date when issue will be resolved.
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
  2. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey [AT&T] Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
  3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting. Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
  4. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
  5. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan.Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath
  6. 2023-09-28 Rittwik Jana provided an offline update:
    - the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
    - Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
    - Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
    - 2023-10-05: Nexus 3 Repo setup https://nexus3.o-ran-sc.org/repositories/datasets and once permissions are set Sridhar Rao to upload TIM data sets. Viavi data-sets still a WIP.
  7. 2023-10-05: No update but David Kinsey [AT&T] noted a three-week cycle for project updates and next one will after the face-face meeting.
3. Project reports (by features)
  1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
  2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
  3. Project Reports

- - - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023: link-to-2023-09-28-report
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023
      - Alex Stancu Could not be available. Provided the following status update:
        To summarize what has happened:
        the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
        Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
        Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan - 21 Sep 2023
      - 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
      - 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
      - 2023-10-12: Shankar presented draft of F2F material. David Kinsey [AT&T] noted that the material should be posted and available in advance for F2F. Updates can still occur after initial upload.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti - 21 Sep 2023
      - 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
      - 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
Any Other Business (AoB)
1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
4. 2023-08-31: David Kinsey [AT&T] will not be available end of October. huangjinri@chinamobile.com to take care in the absence of David.
Meeting Closure

2023 10 12

Recording

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Ultan.Kelly (Viavi)
Next scribe: November 2023:
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy
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		Baruch Friedman
Samsung	Avinash Bhat	X	Peter Moonki Hong

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

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by huangjinri@chinamobile.com seconded by John Paul Lane motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. ~~Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)~~
  1. 2023-06-29: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
  2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" OpenAir Interface Robert Schmidt
  3. ~~2023-08-10: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop OpenAir Interface~~
  4. ~~2023-08-17: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop: In the process of writing tentative agenda for sharing next week. OpenAir Interface~~
  5. ~~2023-08-24: 2023-FALL-JOINT-OSC-OAI-WORKSHOP-BOSTON OpenAir Interface~~
2. ~~TSC meeting~~
  1. ~~2023-08-31: Next TSC presentation will be on next Friday (2023-09-08)~~
3. ~~Super "Simplified" Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle~~
  1. ~~Work three things in parallel: demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions); roadmap; sources of funding to assure sustain-ability~~
4. ~~2023-08-03: OAI proposal has been presented to the TSC, TSC said no money to fund it.~~
5. ~~2023-08-10: ONF proposal Rittwik Jana~~
6. ~~2023-08-17: TSC approval for making following changes Sridhar Rao~~
  1. ~~Set a file size limit of 5m in all repos to prevent large files from being pushed. (This is the same size we allow in other communities)~~
  2. ~~Cleanup the 2 repos (it/dep, pti/rtp), which requires a history rewrite to permanently remove large files. Reason: Failing GitHub replication~~
    1. ~~ric-infra/10-Nexus/etc/conf.tar (it/dep)~~
    2. ~~meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/cpu-manager-for-kubernetes/docker-img-cmk-v1.3.1.tar.bz (pti/rtp)~~
    3. ~~meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/multus-cni/docker-img-multus-v3.2.tar.bz2 (pti/rtp)~~
    4. ~~meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes/docker-img-kubernetes-v1.15.2.tar.bz (pti/rtp)~~
  3. ~~**Both actions require a Gerrit downtime**~~
  4. ~~motion for cleaning up the 2 repos: approved unanimously.~~
  5. ~~motion for setting the size limit of 5m: approved unanimously.~~
7. ~~2023-08-24: ONF's new open RAN initiative Rittwik Jana~~
8. ~~2023-08-31: update on ONF proposal: energy saving use cases discussion, 3 data sets Rittwik Jana~~
9. ~~2023-08-31: ReadtheDocs has few deprecations coming up withch will affect the ORAN-SC reposMatt Watkins; Thoralf Czichy put it on a wiki: Configure Repo for Documentation~~
10. ~~2023-09-07: No new Agenda Items~~
11. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey [AT&T] & OpenAir Interface made a call for keynote speakers & demos to O-RAN SC members. Jackie Huang to comment on participation on the Panel Discussion on Nephio & O-Cloud integration
12. ~~2023-10-05: Timo Perala Noted Nephio on-site developer event week of October 9th with contribution from Tracy Van Brakle to inform members about OSC~~
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. ~~2023-07-27: Track Maintenance Release~~
2. ~~2023-07-27: Release I & J planning~~
3. 2023-08-03: Sunil Singh request for approval vote for a new xApp repo RICAPP project contributed & maintained by alexandrehuff from UTFPR Univ. New xApp implements the E2SM-CCC service model. Motion proposed by David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by James Li , motion passed unanimously.
4. ~~2023-08-03: Tack Maintenance Release: RICAPP Sunil Singh , ODULOW Ankit Barve , NONRTRIC John Keeney (Ericsson EST) all on track, will close out next week.~~
5. ~~2023-08-10: Approval of the Maintenance Release.~~
6. ~~2023-09-07: None of the PTLs brought any items.~~
7. ~~2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (aiml-fw/awmf/modelmgmtservice) by the AIMLFW PTL Joseph Thaliath~~
  1. ~~John Keeney (Ericsson EST) seeked clarification on WG2 compliance and the same was provided by Joseph Thaliath~~
  2. ~~Joseph Thaliathconfirmed a demo can be made by mid of Nov timeframe~~
  3. Decision: The proposal was unanimously approved
8. ~~2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (ric-plt/conflictmgr) by the near-RT RIC PTL Thoralf Czichy~~
  1. ~~Gunjan Rastogi from CapGemini mentioned that demo is mid of Nov-23 is challenging. David Kinsey [AT&T] suggested a basic demo is a good start.~~
  2. Decision : The proposal was unanimously approved
9. ~~2023-10-05: No Release Approvals required~~
AP Review
1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
  1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
      1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA huangjinri@chinamobile.com
        2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
        2023-09-14: Jakub Novy [DTAG] David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
      2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
      3. Anything else?
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. 2023-06-29: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" OpenAir Interface Robert Schmidt
      3. 2023-09-07: OpenAir Interface shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by OpenAir Interface
      4. 2023-09-14: OpenAir Interface provided an update on Committee Meeting.
        Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
        Made call for speakers and panels.
        Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
        David Kinsey [AT&T] Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
      5. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey [AT&T] highlighted the low participation from O-RAN SC in demo and keynote point of view. RIC, X-APP, AIML could be potential area. OpenAir Interface said O-RAN SC participation will be accommodated.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested for clarification on OAI,OSFG & ORAN SC relationship. David Kinsey [AT&T] clarified that the objective is to support the common goal of O-RAN Proliferation and showcase of O-RAN Capabilities with reference design.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested to get a clarification on the MoU. OpenAir Interface mentioned that it is very generic and is between O-RAN Alliance & OAI, doesn't cover any licensing details.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested clarification on licensing terms. OpenAir Interface clarified that each community will follow their respective community guidelines.
      6. 2023-10-12: OpenAir Interface Agenda for November Joint OSC-OAI Workshop is finalizing. Some fine touch are being applied.
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle
      1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
      2. Work three things in parallel:
        demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
        AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
        EU
        North America
        sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
        O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
        Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
        Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
  2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October 17 to 19
    1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
    2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey [AT&T] OpenAir Interface
    3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey [AT&T] proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
    4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized. Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
    5. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey [AT&T] reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out.
    6. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey [AT&T] clarified that we have received 5 session (against the 7 requested) . huangjinri@chinamobile.com to invite all the O-RAN Alliance WGs for the sessions. David Kinsey [AT&T] will organize the schedule and update the F2F Event Page.
    7. 2023-10-05: Registration is open and the agenda is being finalized and is still possible for more speakers to attend and space for demos, esp. interested in O-Cloud.
    8. 2023-10-12: Some agenda items still in motion. Moving Wednesday Session with MVP-C to Monday. Need to re-take slot which was released. Need time slot since some MVP AI/ML members will be remote in China. Demo slots still open. Will release session if no more demos identified.
2. Others
Standing/old business
1. OSC Lab
  1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey [AT&T]
  2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
  3. 2023-10-05: Equipment is rack-and-stacked but not networked. David Kinsey [AT&T] Will have an update at the face-face meeting. Looking for an O-Cloud option.
  4. 2023-10-12: Supply Chain shortage, missing circuit breaker doesn't allow everything to be turned on. Missing chillers also means not too many things can be turned on due to temperature limits. No date when issue will be resolved.
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. ~~2023-05-26 Issues on moderation/permission for comments on the wiki (see message from John Keeney (Ericsson EST) )~~
    1. ~~Matt Wilkins: the problem is acknowledged but due to the nature of the wiki, a solution to prevent unintended post/comments is not trivial. Matt will keep on working on this and update the group.~~
  2. ~~2023-06-08 Sridhar Rao License scanning completed and report has been sent to all PTLs~~
    ~~James Li Patch has been submitted for the AI raised under integration project~~
  3. 2023-06-15 All PTLs to update H release page and notify through email to get it review, if this gets done over the next week then we can call for the release vote on the 2023-06-29 TOC following the F2F.
  4. ~~2023-06-29 Integration, RICAPP, DOC, and O-DU Low PTLs to update the H release page.~~
    ~~David Kinsey [AT&T] to send reminder to above project PTLs to update the H release page and also to create I release page with project template.~~
    ~~H release to be postponed on next TOC July 6th~~
    ~~Sridhar Rao created release checklist page, all PTLs expected to review and provide feedback if any.~~
    ~~huangjinri@chinamobile.com to check regarding PR statement.~~
  5. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
  6. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey [AT&T] Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
  7. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting. Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
  8. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
  9. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan.Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath
  10. 2023-09-28 Rittwik Jana provided an offline update:
    - the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
    - Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
    - Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
    - 2023-10-05: Nexus 3 Repo setup https://nexus3.o-ran-sc.org/repositories/datasets and once permissions are set Sridhar Rao to upload TIM data sets. Viavi data-sets still a WIP.
  11. 2023-10-05: No update but David Kinsey [AT&T] noted a three-week cycle for project updates and next one will after the face-face meeting.
3. Project reports (by features)
  1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
  2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
  3. Project Reports

- - - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023: link-to-2023-09-28-report
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023
      - Alex Stancu Could not be available. Provided the following status update:
        To summarize what has happened:
        the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
        Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
        Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan - 21 Sep 2023
      - 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
      - 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
      - 2023-10-12: Shankar presented draft of F2F material. David Kinsey [AT&T] noted that the material should be posted and available in advance for F2F. Updates can still occur after initial upload.
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti - 21 Sep 2023
      - 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
      - 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
Any Other Business (AoB)
1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
4. 2023-08-31: David Kinsey [AT&T] will not be available end of October. huangjinri@chinamobile.com to take care in the absence of David.
Meeting Closure

2023 10 05

Recording

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

Call for scribe (minutes owner): Ultan.Kelly (Viavi)
Next scribe: November 2023:
Previous scribe: 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
AT&T	David Kinsey Co-Chair	X
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	X
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X	Ondřej Hudousek
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Masahiro Fujii	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid	X	Thoralf Czichy
Orange	Julien Boudani
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman	X	Ankit Barve
TIM	Andrea Buldorini	X
Wind River	Jackie Huang		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.

Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by James Li seconded by Ultan.Kelly motion approved unanimously.
Review of Today's Agenda
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
  1. 2023-06-29: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
  2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" OpenAir Interface Robert Schmidt
  3. 2023-08-10: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop OpenAir Interface
  4. 2023-08-17: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop: In the process of writing tentative agenda for sharing next week. OpenAir Interface
  5. 2023-08-24: 2023-FALL-JOINT-OSC-OAI-WORKSHOP-BOSTON OpenAir Interface
2. TSC meeting
  1. 2023-08-31: Next TSC presentation will be on next Friday (2023-09-08)
3. Super "Simplified" Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle
  1. Work three things in parallel: demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions); roadmap; sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
4. 2023-08-03: OAI proposal has been presented to the TSC, TSC said no money to fund it.
5. 2023-08-10: ONF proposal Rittwik Jana
6. 2023-08-17: TSC approval for making following changes Sridhar Rao
  1. Set a file size limit of 5m in all repos to prevent large files from being pushed. (This is the same size we allow in other communities)
  2. Cleanup the 2 repos (it/dep, pti/rtp), which requires a history rewrite to permanently remove large files. Reason: Failing GitHub replication
    1. ric-infra/10-Nexus/etc/conf.tar (it/dep)
    2. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/cpu-manager-for-kubernetes/docker-img-cmk-v1.3.1.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
    3. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/multus-cni/docker-img-multus-v3.2.tar.bz2 (pti/rtp)
    4. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes/docker-img-kubernetes-v1.15.2.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
  3. **Both actions require a Gerrit downtime**
  4. motion for cleaning up the 2 repos: approved unanimously.
  5. motion for setting the size limit of 5m: approved unanimously.
7. 2023-08-24: ONF's new open RAN initiative Rittwik Jana
8. 2023-08-31: update on ONF proposal: energy saving use cases discussion, 3 data sets Rittwik Jana
9. 2023-08-31: ReadtheDocs has few deprecations coming up withch will affect the ORAN-SC reposMatt Watkins; Thoralf Czichy put it on a wiki: Configure Repo for Documentation
10. 2023-09-07: No new Agenda Items
11. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey [AT&T] & OpenAir Interface made a call for keynote speakers & demos to O-RAN SC members. Jackie Huang to comment on participation on the Panel Discussion on Nephio & O-Cloud integration
12. 2023-10-05: Timo Perala Noted Nephio on-site developer event week of October 9th with contribution from Tracy Van Brakle to inform members about OSC
Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
1. 2023-07-27: Track Maintenance Release
2. 2023-07-27: Release I & J planning
3. 2023-08-03: Sunil Singh request for approval vote for a new xApp repo RICAPP project contributed & maintained by alexandrehuff from UTFPR Univ. New xApp implements the E2SM-CCC service model. Motion proposed by David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by James Li , motion passed unanimously.
4. 2023-08-03: Tack Maintenance Release: RICAPP Sunil Singh , ODULOW Ankit Barve , NONRTRIC John Keeney (Ericsson EST) all on track, will close out next week.
5. 2023-08-10: Approval of the Maintenance Release.
6. 2023-09-07: None of the PTLs brought any items.
7. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (aiml-fw/awmf/modelmgmtservice) by the AIMLFW PTL Joseph Thaliath
  1. John Keeney (Ericsson EST) seeked clarification on WG2 compliance and the same was provided by Joseph Thaliath
  2. Joseph Thaliathconfirmed a demo can be made by mid of Nov timeframe
  3. Decision: The proposal was unanimously approved
8. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (ric-plt/conflictmgr) by the near-RT RIC PTL Thoralf Czichy
  1. Gunjan Rastogi from CapGemini mentioned that demo is mid of Nov-23 is challenging. David Kinsey [AT&T] suggested a basic demo is a good start.
  2. Decision : The proposal was unanimously approved
9. 2023-10-05: No Release Approvals required
AP Review
1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
  1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
    1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
      1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA huangjinri@chinamobile.com
        2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
        2023-09-14: Jakub Novy [DTAG] David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
      2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
      3. Anything else?
    2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li Former user (Deleted)
      1. 2023-06-29: huangjinri@chinamobile.com Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" OpenAir Interface Robert Schmidt
      3. 2023-09-07: OpenAir Interface shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: huangjinri@chinamobile.com to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by OpenAir Interface
      4. 2023-09-14: OpenAir Interface provided an update on Committee Meeting.
        Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
        Made call for speakers and panels.
        Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
        David Kinsey [AT&T] Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
      5. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey [AT&T] highlighted the low participation from O-RAN SC in demo and keynote point of view. RIC, X-APP, AIML could be potential area. OpenAir Interface said O-RAN SC participation will be accommodated.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested for clarification on OAI,OSFG & ORAN SC relationship. David Kinsey [AT&T] clarified that the objective is to support the common goal of O-RAN Proliferation and showcase of O-RAN Capabilities with reference design.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested to get a clarification on the MoU. OpenAir Interface mentioned that it is very generic and is between O-RAN Alliance & OAI, doesn't cover any licensing details.
        John Keeney (Ericsson EST) requested clarification on licensing terms. OpenAir Interface clarified that each community will follow their respective community guidelines.
    3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle
      1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
      2. Work three things in parallel:
        demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
        AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
        EU
        North America
        sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
        O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
        Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
        Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
  2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October 17 to 19
    1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
    2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey [AT&T] OpenAir Interface
    3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey [AT&T] proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
    4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized. Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
    5. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey [AT&T] reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out.
    6. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey [AT&T] clarified that we have received 5 session (against the 7 requested) . huangjinri@chinamobile.com to invite all the O-RAN Alliance WGs for the sessions. David Kinsey [AT&T] will organize the schedule and update the F2F Event Page.
    7. 2023-10-05: Registration is open and the agenda is being finalized and is still possible for more speakers to attend and space for demos, esp. interested in O-Cloud.
2. Others
Standing/old business
1. OSC Lab
  1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey [AT&T]
  2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
  3. 2023-10-05: Equipment is rack-and-stacked but not networked. David Kinsey [AT&T] Will have an update at the face-face meeting. Looking for an O-Cloud option.
2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao
  1. 2023-05-26 Issues on moderation/permission for comments on the wiki (see message from John Keeney (Ericsson EST) )
    1. Matt Wilkins: the problem is acknowledged but due to the nature of the wiki, a solution to prevent unintended post/comments is not trivial. Matt will keep on working on this and update the group.
  2. 2023-06-08 Sridhar Rao License scanning completed and report has been sent to all PTLs
    James Li Patch has been submitted for the AI raised under integration project
  3. 2023-06-15 All PTLs to update H release page and notify through email to get it review, if this gets done over the next week then we can call for the release vote on the 2023-06-29 TOC following the F2F.
  4. 2023-06-29 Integration, RICAPP, DOC, and O-DU Low PTLs to update the H release page.
    David Kinsey [AT&T] to send reminder to above project PTLs to update the H release page and also to create I release page with project template.
    H release to be postponed on next TOC July 6th
    Sridhar Rao created release checklist page, all PTLs expected to review and provide feedback if any.
    huangjinri@chinamobile.com to check regarding PR statement.
  5. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
  6. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey [AT&T] Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
  7. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey [AT&T] made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting. Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
  8. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
  9. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan.Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath
  10. 2023-09-28 Rittwik Jana provided an offline update:
    - the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
    - Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
    - Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
    - 2023-10-05: Nexus 3 Repo setup https://nexus3.o-ran-sc.org/repositories/datasets and once permissions are set Sridhar Rao to upload TIM data sets. Viavi data-sets still a WIP.
  11. 2023-10-05: No update but David Kinsey [AT&T] noted a three-week cycle for project updates and next one will after the face-face meeting.
3. Project reports (by features)
  1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
  2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
  3. Project Reports

- - - RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023: link-to-2023-09-28-report
    - Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023
      - Alex Stancu Could not be available. Provided the following status update:
        To summarize what has happened:
        the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
        Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
        Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
    - Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan - 21 Sep 2023
      - 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
      - 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
    - Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti - 21 Sep 2023
      - 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
      - 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
Any Other Business (AoB)
1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
4. 2023-08-31: David Kinsey [AT&T] will not be available end of October. huangjinri@chinamobile.com to take care in the absence of David.
Meeting Closure

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