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2024 Q3 (Jul, Aug, Sep)

2024 Q3 (Jul, Aug, Sep)

Owned by David Kinsey [AT&T]
Jan 09, 2025

2024 09 26

Recording 

Meeting Recording: link

 

Agenda

  • Call for scribe (minutes owner):  Samsung (Avinash)

  • Previous scribe:

    • 2024 => September: Samsung, August: WindRiver; July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange

    • 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson

    • 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T

  • Roll Call & Quorum Check 

 

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

AT&T

David Kinsey Co-Chair

x

 

 

China Mobile

Jinri Huang Co-Chair

 

James Li

x

Deutsche Telekom 

Jakub Nový

 

 

 

Ericsson

John-Paul Lane

x

John Keeney

 

NTT DOCOMO

Yasufumi Morioka

x

Minami Ishii

 

Nokia

Arunkumar Halebid

 

Abdul Wahid

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.  

  1. Review of Today's Agenda

    1. Roll Call

    2. Call for October Scribe . 

    3. Review previous meeting minutes

    4. Next Meeting 03 Oct 2024

      1.  

    5. New Items: 

    6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update

    7. Old Business

      1. Project Updates

    8. AoB Future New Agenda Items

  2. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

    1. Comments: 

    2. Decision: 09/19 Motion to Approve  Julian Garrett ; Second  :  Ankit Barve No objects; Minutes are Approved

    3. Call for October Scribe:  John-Paul Lane (Ericsson) will take up the role

  3. Release

    1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

    2. Other

      1.  

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

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

    1. OSFG discussions  huangjinri@chinamobile.com 

      1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:

        1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.

        2. 08-08 Discussed about the difference between SCCL and SCCP. Jakub Novy [DTAG] share the update about SCCL process document.

        3. 09-05 David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that work is ongoing to include this in March Train, including the license integration by LFN.

      2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio

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

        1. 08-22: Tracy Van Brakle shared slides that is presented by Arpit Joshipura about the Super Wireless Blueprint vision.

        2. 08-29: Tracy Van Brakle OSFG update for the Super Wireless Blueprint development.

        3. 09-05: David Kinsey [AT&T] updated that the plan is to come up with a whitepaper for Super Wireless Blueprint. The proposal is to roll it out in collaboration with OAI, LFN. The same is planned for discussion on this topic during the F2F meeting. 

        4. 09-12: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that is important to collaborate with OAI & LFN and arrive at a timeline to discuss this. There is a need for some tweaking for this work, and it is better to initiate this soon.

        5. 09-19: O-RAN F2F Update : Demo plan, using lobby area, duration of demo, OAI Participation and logistics were discussed . 

        6. 09-26:  David Kinsey [AT&T] updated the date and time that he proposed for the session, lobby arrangements at F2F.  

      4. Other

        1. 08-22: Irfan and David Kinsey [AT&T] discussed about the SNS workshop.

        2. 08-29: Irfan talked about the SNS workshop: request for another talk about the white paper in the Super Wireless blueprint, no final answer from ETSI yet.

        3. 09-05: Irfan mentioned that the agenda and overall speaker list  to be finalized by 15th Sep

        4. 09-12:  David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that he has confirmed to the organizers, and he has been given a 20 min standalone slot. Dr. Ye, and and and Hank Kafka to help with the content.

        5. 09-26: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that the TSC has informed that the O-RAN SC logo that was approved by ToC has been dropped by LF as the O-RAN SC is registered as  a LLC . Until a new logo is identified we will go to the text logo. Sridhar Rao will update the guidelines and next steps.

  6. Old Business

    1. Tooling Changes

      1. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).

        1. 08-01 Motion for the migration from David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by John-Paul Lane, No objections motion carried.

        2. 08-08 The migration is done, and some redirection issues are fixed. Sridhar Rao shared the migration feedback collection table: O-RAN-SC-Confluence-Migration - Google Table

        3. 08-15 Matt Watkins mentioned a request from Sridhar Rao, which was to get a number of people's email addresses to be granted Admin rights for new wiki page.

        4. 09-05 No update on the Navigation bar or LFN Insights issue. Matt Watkins to follow up on  both the ticket (details in ToC slack channel)

        5. 09-12 Matt Watkins mentioned that the replacement Plugin for the navigation bar is installed on the test instance, not the production instance. The same should be considered while checking. Matt mentioned that the previous bar plugins were supplied by a 3rd party and right now the only option seems like to use the closest Atlassian Plugins to get same result. Martin walked through edit capabilities to modifying the space contents. AI : Matt to Work with Martin Skorupski offline  sort out the issue.

        6. 09-19 Matt Watkins mentioned that the navigation bar is made available using Atlassian Plugin and has many limitations. There is no clarity on how long this will be supported. Matt will explore more options in the background. 

    2. Project Updates

      1. Update on Nephio

      2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski 

        1. 08-08 Martin Skorupski Mentioned Alex Stancu (SIM project) is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.

        2. 08-15 Martin Skorupski shared the link for release k demos: Release "K" - Requirements and Software Architecture Committee - Confluence (atlassian.net)

        3. 09-05 Martin Skorupski  reviewed the list of demos planned for Release K. Couple of more demos are not listed , but are in planning stage (Ankit & Sridhar)

        4. 09-12 

          1. Martin Skorupski shared updated on the demo page and the time allotted to each demo (6~7 demos are planned).

          2. Overview of Hybrid and Hierarchical OAM Architecture and demo setup was discussed. Martin clarified that both live and recorded video are planned.

          3. Sridhar expects real users to share their user experience of using  O-RAN SC components, he will the use case that he is planning for Government of India Demo.

          4. Avinash Bhat proposed to invite more user expereince sharing 

        5.  09-26 provided update on demos

          1. xFAPI interfacing between O-RAN SC ODU and OAI : Ankit updated that it might be challenged to complete, likely to be pushed to next demo opportunity

          2. Multi-arch support for O-Cloud

          3. Integration efforts and experience - Bimo to provide introduction to the lab

          4. User experience by Sridhar

          5. sample rApp : non-RT RIC demo

          6. TE & IV demo : non-RT RIC and SMO joint demo

          7. SMO deployment with O2

          8. AIML Framework demo using rAPP (integration and non-RT RIC) : Subhash provided an overview

          9. David Kinsey [AT&T] will request for a third slot as we have a long list of demos

      3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi 

        1. 08-08 Update about the rearrangement of INT pages, the demos and FlexRAN.

        2. 08-22 bimo fransiscus asisi updated the adjustment to fix the topology and shared the link of the OSC Community Lab Topology

        3. 09-19 Shared the template for deployment. Refer  link

      4. INF - Jackie Huang 

        1. 08-01 Jackie Huang Presented status of INF in J release and plan for K release.

      5. RIC - abdulwahid.w

        1. 08-08 abdulwahid.w High level update for RIC project.

      6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh 

      7. SIM - Alex Stancu 

        1. 08-08 Alex Stancu is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.

      8. OAM - Martin Skorupski

      9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti

      10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST) 

      11. AIML - subhash

        1. 08-22 subhash updates for AIML: focus on integration with Non-RT RIC; the model of performance measurement; alignment with direction provided by WG2 specifications.

      12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve 

      13. ODULOW - Peng Lu

      14. DOC - Weichen Ni 

    3. Internship updates

      1. 08-08: It has been kicked off with the Rimedo Labs

      2. 08-29: Sridhar Rao we should have the first draft ready by the end of November

  1. Meeting Summary and Closure

  • Next Meeting 03 Oct 2024

 

2024 09 19

Recording 

Meeting Recording: link

 

Agenda

  • Call for scribe (minutes owner):  Samsung (Avinash)

  • Previous scribe:

    • 2024 => September: Samsung, August: WindRiver; July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange

    • 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson

    • 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T

  • Roll Call & Quorum Check 

 

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

AT&T

David Kinsey Co-Chair

x

 

 

China Mobile

Jinri Huang Co-Chair

x

James Li

 

Deutsche Telekom 

Jakub Nový

x

 

 

Ericsson

John-Paul Lane

x

John Keeney

 

NTT DOCOMO

Yasufumi Morioka

x

Minami Ishii

 

Nokia

Arunkumar Halebid

 

Abdul Wahid

x

Orange

Julien Boudani

 

 

 

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.  

  1. Review of Today's Agenda

    1. Roll Call

    2. Review previous meeting minutes

    3. Next Meeting 26 Sep 2024

      1. Call for October Scribe: 

    4. New Items: 

      1. Request from subhash to create a new repository for AIMLFW

        1. Repository Name : aiml-fw/apm/influx-wrapper

        2. Details : implementing the ability to store/retrieve time series aggregation data to/from the influx-db

    5. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update

    6. Old Business

      1. Project Updates

    7. AoB Future New Agenda Items

  2. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

    1. Comments: 

    2. Decision: 09/12 Motion to Approve  Jackie Huang ; Second  : Ankit Barve  No objects; Minutes are Approved

    3. Call for September Scribe:  

  3. Release

    1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

    2. Other

      1.  

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

    1. 09-19: subhash explained the need for influx dB as a internal to AIMLFW. Subhash to explore the use of influx db service available on SMO. The same was put for voting and approved without any objection. 

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

    1. OSFG discussions  huangjinri@chinamobile.com 

      1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:

        1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.

        2. 08-08 Discussed about the difference between SCCL and SCCP. Jakub Novy [DTAG] share the update about SCCL process document.

        3. 09-05 David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that work is ongoing to include this in March Train, including the license integration by LFN.

      2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio

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

        1. 08-22: Tracy Van Brakle shared slides that is presented by Arpit Joshipura about the Super Wireless Blueprint vision.

        2. 08-29: Tracy Van Brakle OSFG update for the Super Wireless Blueprint development.

        3. 09-05: David Kinsey [AT&T] updated that the plan is to come up with a whitepaper for Super Wireless Blueprint. The proposal is to roll it out in collaboration with OAI, LFN. The same is planned for discussion on this topic during the F2F meeting. 

        4. 09-12: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that is important to collaborate with OAI & LFN and arrive at a timeline to discuss this. There is a need for some tweaking for this work, and it is better to initiate this soon.

        5. 09-19: O-RAN F2F Update : Demo plan, using lobby area, duration of demo, OAI Participation and logistics were discussed . 

      4. Other

        1. 08-22: Irfan and David Kinsey [AT&T] discussed about the SNS workshop.

        2. 08-29: Irfan talked about the SNS workshop: request for another talk about the white paper in the Super Wireless blueprint, no final answer from ETSI yet.

        3. 09-05: Irfan mentioned that the agenda and overall speaker list  to be finalized by 15th Sep

        4. 09-12:  David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that he has confirmed to the organizers, and he has been given a 20 min standalone slot. Dr. Ye, and and and Hank Kafka to help with the content.

  6. Old Business

    1. Tooling Changes

      1. Matt Watkins We need to bring the topic of the Atlassian Cloud migration (JIRA/Confluence) to the ORAN TOC. Can we please get approval from the team for the production migration next week, if possible? LFIT have already performed a test migration here: https://lf-o-ran-sc-test.atlassian.net/ Please can you review the content there and raise any possible issues in a JIRA ticket? If you don’t have access already, provide LFIT with names/user accounts and we can grant the required access. (This update is from Jessica, who is performing the O-RAN migration).

        1. 08-01 Motion for the migration from David Kinsey [AT&T] , seconded by John-Paul Lane, No objections motion carried.

        2. 08-08 The migration is done, and some redirection issues are fixed. Sridhar Rao shared the migration feedback collection table: O-RAN-SC-Confluence-Migration - Google Table

        3. 08-15 Matt Watkins mentioned a request from Sridhar Rao, which was to get a number of people's email addresses to be granted Admin rights for new wiki page.

        4. 09-05 No update on the Navigation bar or LFN Insights issue. Matt Watkins to follow up on  both the ticket (details in ToC slack channel)

        5. 09-12 Matt Watkins mentioned that the replacement Plugin for the navigation bar is installed on the test instance, not the production instance. The same should be considered while checking. Matt mentioned that the previous bar plugins were supplied by a 3rd party and right now the only option seems like to use the closest Atlassian Plugins to get same result. Martin walked through edit capabilities to modifying the space contents. AI : Matt to Work with Martin Skorupski offline  sort out the issue.

        6. 09-19 Matt Watkins mentioned that the navigation bar is made available using Atlassian Plugin and has many limitations. There is no clarity on how long this will be supported. Matt will explore more options in the background. 

    2. Project Updates

      1. Update on Nephio

      2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski 

        1. 08-08 Martin Skorupski Mentioned Alex Stancu (SIM project) is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.

        2. 08-15 Martin Skorupski shared the link for release k demos: Release "K" - Requirements and Software Architecture Committee - Confluence (atlassian.net)

        3. 09-05 Martin Skorupski  reviewed the list of demos planned for Release K. Couple of more demos are not listed , but are in planning stage (Ankit & Sridhar)

        4. 09-12 

          1. Martin Skorupski shared updated on the demo page and the time allotted to each demo (6~7 demos are planned).

          2. Overview of Hybrid and Hierarchical OAM Architecture and demo setup was discussed. Martin clarified that both live and recorded video are planned.

          3. Sridhar expects real users to share their user experience of using  O-RAN SC components, he will the use case that he is planning for Government of India Demo.

          4. Avinash Bhat proposed to invite more user expereince sharing 

      3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi 

        1. 08-08 Update about the rearrangement of INT pages, the demos and FlexRAN.

        2. 08-22 bimo fransiscus asisi updated the adjustment to fix the topology and shared the link of the OSC Community Lab Topology

        3. 09-19 Shared the template for deployment. Refer  link

      4. INF - Jackie Huang 

        1. 08-01 Jackie Huang Presented status of INF in J release and plan for K release.

      5. RIC - abdulwahid.w

        1. 08-08 abdulwahid.w High level update for RIC project.

      6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh 

      7. SIM - Alex Stancu 

        1. 08-08 Alex Stancu is working on the hybrid vs hierarchical architecture.

      8. OAM - Martin Skorupski

      9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti

      10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST) 

      11. AIML - subhash

        1. 08-22 subhash updates for AIML: focus on integration with Non-RT RIC; the model of performance measurement; alignment with direction provided by WG2 specifications.

      12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve 

      13. ODULOW - Peng Lu

      14. DOC - Weichen Ni 

    3. Internship updates

      1. 08-08: It has been kicked off with the Rimedo Labs

      2. 08-29: Sridhar Rao we should have the first draft ready by the end of November

  1. Meeting Summary and Closure

  • Next Meeting 26 Sep 2024

 

2024 09 12

Recording 

Meeting Recording: link

 

Agenda

  • Call for scribe (minutes owner):  Samsung (Avinash)

  • Previous scribe:

    • 2024 => September: Samsung, August: WindRiver; July: Radisys; June: AT&T; May: Nokia; April: TIM; March: Docomo; February: DT; January: Orange

    • 2023 => December: CMCC + others (TBD); November: Ericsson; October: Viavi; September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January: Ericsson

    • 2022 => December: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: AT&T

  • Roll Call & Quorum Check 

 

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

Company

Contact Name

Attendance

Alternate Contact

Attendance

AT&T

David Kinsey Co-Chair

x

 

 

China Mobile

Jinri Huang Co-Chair

x

James Li

 

Deutsche Telekom 

Jakub Nový

x

 

 

Ericsson

John-Paul Lane

x

John Keeney

 

NTT DOCOMO

Yasufumi Morioka

x

Minami Ishii

 

Nokia

Arunkumar Halebid

 

Abdulwahid

x

Orange

Julien Boudani

 

 

 

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.  

  1. Review of Today's Agenda

    1. Call for September Scribe - Avinash Bhat

    2. Roll Call

    3. Review previous meeting minutes

    4. Next Meeting 19 Sep 2024

      1. Call for September Scribe: Samsung

    5. New Items: No 

    6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update

    7. Old Business

      1. Project Updates

    8. AoB Future New Agenda Items

  2. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

    1. Comments: 

    2. Decision: 09/12 Motion to Approve  ; Second  :  No objects; Minutes are Approved

    3. Call for September Scribe:  

  3. Release

    1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

    2. Other

      1.  

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

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

    1. OSFG discussions  huangjinri@chinamobile.com 

      1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:

        1. 08-01 Martin Skorupski asked where the repo is. David Kinsey [AT&T] will take an action to reach out to Jacob about that and where we're at with the SCCL.

        2. 08-08 Discussed about the difference between SCCL and SCCP. Jakub Novy [DTAG] share the update about SCCL process document.

        3. 09-05 David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that work is ongoing to include this in March Train, including the license integration by LFN.

      2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio

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

        1. 08-22: Tracy Van Brakle shared slides that is presented by Arpit Joshipura about the Super Wireless Blueprint vision.

        2. 08-29: Tracy Van Brakle OSFG update for the Super Wireless Blueprint development.

        3. 09-05: David Kinsey [AT&T] updated that the plan is to come up with a whitepaper for Super Wireless Blueprint. The proposal is to roll it out in collaboration with OAI, LFN. The same is planned for discussion on this topic during the F2F meeting. 

        4. 09-12: David Kinsey [AT&T] mentioned that is important to collaborate with OAI & LFN and arrive at a timeline to discuss this. There is a need for some tweaking for this work, and it is better to initiate this soon.

      4. Other

        1. 08-22: Irfan and David Kinsey [AT&T] discussed about the SNS workshop.

        2. 08-29: Irfan talked about the SNS workshop: request for another talk about the white paper in the Super Wireless blueprint, no final answer from ETSI yet.

        3. 09-05: Irfan mentioned that the agenda and overall speaker list  to be finalized by 15th Sep