2025 01 30

Recording

Agenda

Scribe: Ultan.Kelly
Previous scribe:
- 2025 => January: Viavi; February: China Mobile; March: DTAG
- 2024 => December: Orange; October: Ericsson, 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	Tracy Van Brakle
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li	X
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
TIM	Andrea Buldorini
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 of Today's Agenda
1. Roll Call
2. Review previous meeting minutes (Jan 16th)
3. Next Meeting 06 Feb 2025
4. Release Update
5. New Items:
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update & F2F Meeting
7. Old Business
  1. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items and Announcements
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments: Ultan.Kelly was Scribe.
2. Decision: Motion to Approve Avinash Bhat; Seconded by John-Paul Lane: No Objections. Minutes Approved.
Release
1. 01-30: Press Release for K Release recommended to be released before Feb 10th. Some comments are still outstanding.
2. 01-23: Press Release for K Release same status as 01-16. Sally has pinged AT&T for feedback.
3. 01-16: Press Release for K Release is a work in progress and out for approval with quotes. Waiting for individual companies to get their internal PR approval. Suggestion to create a follow-up Blog to elaborate further on the technical details. Sally Cooper to publish.
4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
  1. 01-09: Sridhar Rao Most of the Checklist is complete. A Couple of outliers which should be complete today.
    1. Branching for ODUHIGH
    2. A couple of Projects for Release Notes: PTL are already engaged
    3. Sally Cooper working on PR statement for TSC to approve, if not then will use previous blog method for release communications.
    4. Sridhar Rao Will provide either PR for TSC to approve for TSC status report on 01-10 or we will use the blog method
  2. 19-12: Matt Watkins Gerrit software upgrade had to be rolled back and the maintenance overran by ~an hour. Will be run again during the vacation period.
  3. 19-12: K-Release timeline disucssed and release Approved. One remark : RIC APP project may be ready for the maintenance release.
  4. 12-12: Matt Watkins Upgrade Gerrit and restart Jenkins Tuesday 10AM to 11AM (message will be send to the slack channel).
  5. 12-12: Sridhar Rao & David Kinsey [AT&T] K-release => some highlights need to be populated. Tagging will be done on the 19th of december (PTLs to get the OK that
  6. hey are ready for tagging). Final realease ready before the end of the year. But voting will be on the 9th of January.
  7. 12-05: Sridhar Rao initiated a request for security scanning, will complete it and send the report. The release probably won't happen until January 9.
5. Other
  1. 01-30 : Maintenance Release
    1. Abdul Wahid noted that the conflict manager will be in the release.
  2. 01-23 : Maintenance Release
    1. AI/ML framework updates on track but to be finalized.
    2. Python Simulator updates noted as complete.
    3. RIC Platform Updates need to be confirmed.
  3. 01-16: Maintenance Release
    1. AI/ML framework updates to be confirmed
    2. Python Simulator updates noted as complete
    3. RIC Platform Updates need to be confirmed.
  4. 01-09: Maintenance Release due early February
    1. AIMLFW: Unit Test Coverage increase/minor bug fixes
    2. SIM: New Python Simulator, some hicups in the Repo requires some correction.
    3. RICPLT: Conflict Manager Phase 1 missed K release but will likely be in the Maintenance release
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 01-23: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: Closed Out
2. 01-16: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: Back on track after a 2 month delay. Closed out wording between the STFG, OSFG and OSC. To be approved by legal and the EC. Final step is to send back to the LFN and create Press Release.
3. 01-09: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: work still in progress on next weeks OSFG agenda. James will provide David with latest draft to try and expedite changes.
4. 12-19: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance : work in progress with remarks from OSFG expected in preparation of the press release. We have some wordings concern about OSC present in the MoU. We need to confirm it before publishing it. OSC was already using ONAP Code and recently we are also working with Nephio. We are not happy with the statement that may be understood like "OSC should part of LFN". The MoU should be high level and not going specifically focusing on topics like Security (which is already known point for OSC). James Li will send an email to OSFG.
5. 12-05: Memorandum of understanding between O-RAN and LFN is under preparation with OSFG
6. 12-05: Letter of intent between AT&T and O-RAN regarding the funding of the lab. AT&T will send out the purchase orders for the tools.
7. 12-12: Part of the budget planned for this year (VIAVI) and a second wave is next year (Keysight). O-RAN is funding, AT&T is purshacing. Adjustment of the End User License Agreement to authorize the tools .
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 01-23: Jakub Novy [DTAG]mentioned test/demo was in progress. Artifact release process is to be reviewed by all.
    2. 01-16: OSFG Part complete but had discussion about the post-process and how to publish on public site from ORAN. Test build to be scheduled by @Martin Skorupski Publication release process was already reviewed by Jakob and Martin. huangjinri@chinamobile.com to add an agenda item to explain the process for the TSC Opening Session at the Face to Face meeting. David Kinsey [AT&T], Jakub Novy [DTAG], Martin Skorupski to come up with wording for the description based on SCCP repo. and existing draft.
    3. 01-09: O-RAN Process being submitted to OCOP. Need to understand how publication to OSC occurs.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
  4. Face-to-Face Meeting
    1. 01-30: The topic of opensource needs to be discussed at each F2F meeting and hence suggest a different approach by adding the topic into the agenda of each Working Group.
      1. Martin Skorupski to reach out to the working groups for the OSC to get 30mins on their sessions/calendar.
      2. The lobby demos was finalized (3x30minute demos).
    2. 01-23: Face-to-Face Meeting planning in progress
      1. Demo will be remote hence requested Internet Access
      2. Requires one demo session. Discussion about various Working Groups for input. Need to get this topic on their calendars and David Kinsey [AT&T] can help Martin Skorupskiachieve this.
    3. 01-16: Face-to-Face Meeting planning in progress
      1. Noted that Sridhar can attend.
      2. Lobby Demo write-up with short description of demo
        To be approved by EC for meeting next Wednesday. Draft developed on the call and huangjinri@chinamobile.com to finalize with Martin & Sridhar to provide feedback. David referenced the O-RAN Handbook section 2.4.2.2 for guidelines. Demo name to be confirmed along the lines of 'OAI/OSC Feature Integration' with DU/CU/SMO with configurations on DU, O1 Get Request to CU and OFH M-Plane as a stepping stone for the Super Wireless Blueprint.
    4. Other
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
2. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 01-09 There might be an OSC/OAI integration demo in the F2F lobby
    2. 01-09 There are a couple of demos that weren't ready for Oct F2F which will be presented in March F2F. Might only need 1 session.
    3. 01-09 Would like Sridhar Rao to be invited to March F2F OSFG/OSC sessions. He will need a visa so we need to start this soon.
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 01-23: Intel's internal test case fails. Ray-Guang Cheng looking for TM500 configuration. NTUST blocked and further progress will be delayed due to the lunar new year holiday.
    2. 01-16: There is a bottleneck bt. FlexRan and TM500. fransiscus bimo to work with Intel at the next the RSAC about the configuration. Plan is to get working TM500 and gNB configuration used with the OAI gNB and repeat it after checking parameters that are likely to change (Frequency and compression bits).
    3. 01-09: Ray-Guang Cheng: Problem with integrated O-DU not communicating with TM-500. David Kinsey [AT&T]:Need project help to debug. RSAC to help do incremental builds to identify when disconnect occurs: 1) ODULOW → TM500 2) xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500 5) ODUHIGH->xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500. Need to isolate since all three components indicate they don't have a defect but integrated build doesn't work.
    4. ASN.1 Fix
      1. 01-16: Still open - Status remains the same due to absence.
      2. 01-09: bimo fransiscus asisi: Need ASN1 fix. abdulwahid.w: Nokia has a resource but haven't reached out since new year. Wahid will get a status.
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - Peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
  15. Marketing Plan: Working with LNF and ORAN Alliance teams to increase Awareness and Visibility of OSC Work
    1. 01-23 Sally Cooper provided 10 minute update on Marketing Plan.
      1. Call to like LinkedIn Posts
      2. Goal to issue several blogs this year
      3. Goal to increase the number of followers on LinkedIn
      4. Suggestion to do Webinar on SCCL with real examples. Sally Cooper to follow up in April when November Train is available to the public.
3. Internship updates

Meeting Summary and Closure

Next Meeting 06 Feb 2025 Martin Skorupski to host if Jinri is not available. Scribe for February is China Mobile and DTAG will be in March.

2025 01 23

Recording

Meeting Recording: Recording Link

Agenda

Scribe: Ultan.Kelly
Previous scribe:
- 2025 => January: Viavi;
- 2024 => December: Orange; October: Ericsson, 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	Tracy Van Brakle
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li	X
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový	X
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	X	John Keeney
NTT DOCOMO	Yasufumi Morioka	X	Minami Ishii
Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Abdul Wahid
Orange	Julien Boudani	X
Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Ankit Barve	X
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 of Today's Agenda
1. Roll Call
2. Review previous meeting minutes (Jan 16th)
3. Next Meeting 30 Jan 2025
4. Release Update
5. New Items:
6. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update & F2F Meeting
7. Old Business
  1. Project Updates
8. AoB Future New Agenda Items and Announcements
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments: Ultan.Kelly was Scribe.
2. Decision: Motion to Approve Julian Boudani; Seconded by John-Paul Lane: No Objections. Minutes for 01/16/2025 Approved.
Release
1. 01-23: Press Release for K Release same status as 01-16. Sally has pinged AT&T for feedback.
2. 01-16: Press Release for K Release is a work in progress and out for approval with quotes. Waiting for individual companies to get their internal PR approval. Suggestion to create a follow-up Blog to elaborate further on the technical details. Sally Cooper to publish.
3. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
  1. 01-09: Sridhar Rao Most of the Checklist is complete. A Couple of outliers which should be complete today.
    1. Branching for ODUHIGH
    2. A couple of Projects for Release Notes: PTL are already engaged
    3. Sally Cooper working on PR statement for TSC to approve, if not then will use previous blog method for release communications.
    4. Sridhar Rao Will provide either PR for TSC to approve for TSC status report on 01-10 or we will use the blog method
  2. 19-12: Matt Watkins Gerrit software upgrade had to be rolled back and the maintenance overran by ~an hour. Will be run again during the vacation period.
  3. 19-12: K-Release timeline disucssed and release Approved. One remark : RIC APP project may be ready for the maintenance release.
  4. 12-12: Matt Watkins Upgrade Gerrit and restart Jenkins Tuesday 10AM to 11AM (message will be send to the slack channel).
  5. 12-12: Sridhar Rao & David Kinsey [AT&T] K-release => some highlights need to be populated. Tagging will be done on the 19th of december (PTLs to get the OK that
  6. hey are ready for tagging). Final realease ready before the end of the year. But voting will be on the 9th of January.
  7. 12-05: Sridhar Rao initiated a request for security scanning, will complete it and send the report. The release probably won't happen until January 9.
4. Other
  1. 01-23 : Maintenance Release
    1. AI/ML framework updates on track but to be finalized.
    2. Python Simulator updates noted as complete.
    3. RIC Platform Updates need to be confirmed.
  2. 01-16: Maintenance Release
    1. AI/ML framework updates to be confirmed
    2. Python Simulator updates noted as complete
    3. RIC Platform Updates need to be confirmed.
  3. 01-09: Maintenance Release due early February
    1. AIMLFW: Unit Test Coverage increase/minor bug fixes
    2. SIM: New Python Simulator, some hicups in the Repo requires some correction.
    3. RICPLT: Conflict Manager Phase 1 missed K release but will likely be in the Maintenance release
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 01-23: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: Closed Out
2. 01-16: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: Back on track after a 2 month delay. Closed out wording between the STFG, OSFG and OSC. To be approved by legal and the EC. Final step is to send back to the LFN and create Press Release.
3. 01-09: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: work still in progress on next weeks OSFG agenda. James will provide David with latest draft to try and expedite changes.
4. 12-19: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance : work in progress with remarks from OSFG expected in preparation of the press release. We have some wordings concern about OSC present in the MoU. We need to confirm it before publishing it. OSC was already using ONAP Code and recently we are also working with Nephio. We are not happy with the statement that may be understood like "OSC should part of LFN". The MoU should be high level and not going specifically focusing on topics like Security (which is already known point for OSC). James Li will send an email to OSFG.
5. 12-05: Memorandum of understanding between O-RAN and LFN is under preparation with OSFG
6. 12-05: Letter of intent between AT&T and O-RAN regarding the funding of the lab. AT&T will send out the purchase orders for the tools.
7. 12-12: Part of the budget planned for this year (VIAVI) and a second wave is next year (Keysight). O-RAN is funding, AT&T is purshacing. Adjustment of the End User License Agreement to authorize the tools .
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 01-23: Jakub Novy [DTAG]mentioned test/demo was in progress. Artifact release process is to be reviewed by all.
    2. 01-16: OSFG Part complete but had discussion about the post-process and how to publish on public site from ORAN. Test build to be scheduled by @Martin Skorupski Publication release process was already reviewed by Jakob and Martin. huangjinri@chinamobile.com to add an agenda item to explain the process for the TSC Opening Session at the Face to Face meeting. David Kinsey [AT&T], Jakub Novy [DTAG], Martin Skorupski to come up with wording for the description based on SCCP repo. and existing draft.
    3. 01-09: O-RAN Process being submitted to OCOP. Need to understand how publication to OSC occurs.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
  4. Face-to-Face Meeting
    1. 01-23: Face-to-Face Meeting planning in progress
      1. Demo will be remote hence requested Internet Access
      2. Requires one demo session. Discussion about various Working Groups for input. Need to get this topic on their calendars and David Kinsey [AT&T] can help Martin Skorupskiachieve this.
    2. 01-16: Face-to-Face Meeting planning in progress
      1. Noted that Sridhar can attend.
      2. Lobby Demo write-up with short description of demo
        To be approved by EC for meeting next Wednesday. Draft developed on the call and huangjinri@chinamobile.com to finalize with Martin & Sridhar to provide feedback. David referenced the O-RAN Handbook section 2.4.2.2 for guidelines. Demo name to be confirmed along the lines of 'OAI/OSC Feature Integration' with DU/CU/SMO with configurations on DU, O1 Get Request to CU and OFH M-Plane as a stepping stone for the Super Wireless Blueprint.
    3. Other
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
2. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 01-09 There might be an OSC/OAI integration demo in the F2F lobby
    2. 01-09 There are a couple of demos that weren't ready for Oct F2F which will be presented in March F2F. Might only need 1 session.
    3. 01-09 Would like Sridhar Rao to be invited to March F2F OSFG/OSC sessions. He will need a visa so we need to start this soon.
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 01-23: Intel's internal test case fails. Ray-Guang Cheng looking for TM500 configuration. NTUST blocked and further progress will be delayed due to the lunar new year holiday.
    2. 01-16: There is a bottleneck bt. FlexRan and TM500. fransiscus bimo to work with Intel at the next the RSAC about the configuration. Plan is to get working TM500 and gNB configuration used with the OAI gNB and repeat it after checking parameters that are likely to change (Frequency and compression bits).
    3. 01-09: Ray-Guang Cheng: Problem with integrated O-DU not communicating with TM-500. David Kinsey [AT&T]:Need project help to debug. RSAC to help do incremental builds to identify when disconnect occurs: 1) ODULOW → TM500 2) xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500 5) ODUHIGH->xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500. Need to isolate since all three components indicate they don't have a defect but integrated build doesn't work.
    4. ASN.1 Fix
      1. 01-16: Still open - Status remains the same due to absence.
      2. 01-09: bimo fransiscus asisi: Need ASN1 fix. abdulwahid.w: Nokia has a resource but haven't reached out since new year. Wahid will get a status.
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - Peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
  15. Marketing Plan: Working with LNF and ORAN Alliance teams to increase Awareness and Visibility of OSC Work
    1. 01-23 Sally Cooper provided 10 minute update on Marketing Plan.
      1. Call to like LinkedIn Posts
      2. Goal to issue several blogs this year
      3. Goal to increase the number of followers on LinkedIn
      4. Suggestion to do Webinar on SCCL with real examples. Sally Cooper to follow up in April when November Train is available to the public.
3. Internship updates

Meeting Summary and Closure

Discussed lunar new-year holidays and will affect attendance of next meetings so discussion to postpone next weeks meeting.
- Next Meeting 06 Feb 2025 Martin Skorupski to host if Jinri is not available. Scribe for February is China Mobile and DTAG will be in March.

2025 01 16

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Scribe: Ultan.Kelly
Previous scribe:
- 2025 => January: Viavi;
- 2024 => December: Orange; October: Ericsson, 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	Tracy Van Brakle
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li
Deutsche Telekom	Jakub Nový
Ericsson	John-Paul Lane		John Keeney	X
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	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 of Today's Agenda
1. Roll Call
2. Review previous meeting minutes (Jan 6th)
3. Next Meeting 23 Jan 2025
4. New Items:
5. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update & F2F Meeting
6. Old Business
  1. Project Updates
7. AoB Future New Agenda Items and Announcements
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments: David Kinsey [AT&T] was Scribe.
2. Decision: Motion to Approve Julian Boudani; Seconded by Andrea Buldorini: No Objections. Minutes for 01/09/2025 Approved.
Release
1. 01-16: Press Release for K Release is a work in progress and out for approval with quotes. Waiting for individual companies to get their internal PR approval. Suggestion to create a follow-up Blog to elaborate further on the technical details. Sally Cooper to publish.
2. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
  1. 01-09: Sridhar Rao Most of the Checklist is complete. A Couple of outliers which should be complete today.
    1. Branching for ODUHIGH
    2. A couple of Projects for Release Notes: PTL are already engaged
    3. Sally Cooper working on PR statement for TSC to approve, if not then will use previous blog method for release communications.
    4. Sridhar Rao Will provide either PR for TSC to approve for TSC status report on 01-10 or we will use the blog method
  2. 19-12: Matt Watkins Gerrit software upgrade had to be rolled back and the maintenance overran by ~an hour. Will be run again during the vacation period.
  3. 19-12: K-Release timeline disucssed and release Approved. One remark : RIC APP project may be ready for the maintenance release.
  4. 12-12: Matt Watkins Upgrade Gerrit and restart Jenkins Tuesday 10AM to 11AM (message will be send to the slack channel).
  5. 12-12: Sridhar Rao & David Kinsey [AT&T] K-release => some highlights need to be populated. Tagging will be done on the 19th of december (PTLs to get the OK that
  6. hey are ready for tagging). Final realease ready before the end of the year. But voting will be on the 9th of January.
  7. 12-05: Sridhar Rao initiated a request for security scanning, will complete it and send the report. The release probably won't happen until January 9.
3. Other
  1. 01-16: Maintenance Release
    1. AI/ML framework updates to be confirmed
    2. Python Simulator updates noted as complete
    3. RIC Platform Updates need to be confirmed.
  2. 01-09: Maintenance Release due early February
    1. AIMLFW: Unit Test Coverage increase/minor bug fixes
    2. SIM: New Python Simulator, some hicups in the Repo requires some correction.
    3. RICPLT: Conflict Manager Phase 1 missed K release but will likely be in the Maintenance release
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 01-16: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: Back on track after a 2 month delay. Closed out wording between the STFG, OSFG and OSC. To be approved by legal and the EC. Final step is to send back to the LFN and create Press Release.
2. 01-09: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: work still in progress on next weeks OSFG agenda. James will provide David with latest draft to try and expedite changes.
3. 12-19: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance : work in progress with remarks from OSFG expected in preparation of the press release. We have some wordings concern about OSC present in the MoU. We need to confirm it before publishing it. OSC was already using ONAP Code and recently we are also working with Nephio. We are not happy with the statement that may be understood like "OSC should part of LFN". The MoU should be high level and not going specifically focusing on topics like Security (which is already known point for OSC). James Li will send an email to OSFG.
4. 12-05: Memorandum of understanding between O-RAN and LFN is under preparation with OSFG
5. 12-05: Letter of intent between AT&T and O-RAN regarding the funding of the lab. AT&T will send out the purchase orders for the tools.
6. 12-12: Part of the budget planned for this year (VIAVI) and a second wave is next year (Keysight). O-RAN is funding, AT&T is purshacing. Adjustment of the End User License Agreement to authorize the tools .
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 01-16: OSFG Part complete but had discussion about the post-process and how to publish on public site from ORAN. Test build to be scheduled by @Martin Skorupski Publication release process was already reviewed by Jakob and Martin. huangjinri@chinamobile.com to add an agenda item to explain the process for the TSC Opening Session at the Face to Face meeting. David Kinsey [AT&T], Jakub Novy [DTAG], Martin Skorupski to come up with wording for the description based on SCCP repo. and existing draft.
    2. 01-09: O-RAN Process being submitted to OCOP. Need to understand how publication to OSC occurs.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
  4. 01-16: Face-to-Face Meeting planning in progress
    1. Noted that Sridhar can attend.
    2. Lobby Demo write-up with short description of demo
      1. To be approved by EC for meeting next Wednesday. Draft developed on the call and huangjinri@chinamobile.com to finalize with Martin & Sridhar to provide feedback. David referenced the O-RAN Handbook section 2.4.2.2 for guidelines. Demo name to be confirmed along the lines of 'OAI/OSC Feature Integration' with DU/CU/SMO with configurations on DU, O1 Get Request to CU and OFH M-Plane as a stepping stone for the Super Wireless Blueprint.
  5. Other
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
2. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 01-09 There might be an OSC/OAI integration demo in the F2F lobby
    2. 01-09 There are a couple of demos that weren't ready for Oct F2F which will be presented in March F2F. Might only need 1 session.
    3. 01-09 Would like Sridhar Rao to be invited to March F2F OSFG/OSC sessions. He will need a visa so we need to start this soon.
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 01-16: There is a bottleneck bt. FlexRan and TM500. fransiscus bimo to work with Intel at the next the RSAC about the configuration. Plan is to get working TM500 and gNB configuration used with the OAI gNB and repeat it after checking parameters that are likely to change (Frequency and compression bits).
    2. 01-09: Ray-Guang Cheng: Problem with integrated O-DU not communicating with TM-500. David Kinsey [AT&T]:Need project help to debug. RSAC to help do incremental builds to identify when disconnect occurs: 1) ODULOW → TM500 2) xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500 5) ODUHIGH->xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500. Need to isolate since all three components indicate they don't have a defect but integrated build doesn't work.
    3. ASN.1 Fix
      1. 01-16: Still open - Status remains the same due to absence.
      2. 01-09: bimo fransiscus asisi: Need ASN1 fix. abdulwahid.w: Nokia has a resource but haven't reached out since new year. Wahid will get a status.
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - Peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
3. Internship updates

Meeting Summary and Closure

Closed action re: OSFG about MoU between O-RAN Alliance and LFN
- Announcements
  - Sally Cooper working on Marketing Plan for 2025.
  - RIC Analysis by pHD student to be released in late January or early Feb. Final Draft to be reviewed and contact Sridhar Rao if you wish to review the draft. Sridhar Rao to send draft to the OAI.
  - Lunar new-year holidays planned between 20th January to 3rd Feb and will affect attendance of next meetings
- Next Meeting 23 Jan 2025

2025 01 09

Recording

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

Call for scribe: David Kinsey [AT&T]
Previous scribe:
- 2025 => January: Viavi;
- 2024 => December: Orange; October: Ericsson, 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	Tracy Van Brakle
China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	X	James Li
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	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 of Today's Agenda
1. Roll Call
2. Review previous meeting minutes (December 19th)
3. Next Meeting 16 Jan 2025
4. New Items:
5. O-RAN Business - OSFG Update
6. Old Business
  1. Project Updates
7. AoB Future New Agenda Items
Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
1. Comments:
2. Decision: Motion to Approve Julien Boudani (Orange); Second Ankit Barve : No Objections. Minutes for 12/19/2024 Approved.
3. Call for January Scribe: Viavi
Release
1. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval
  1. 01-09: Sridhar Rao Most of the Checklist is complete. A Couple of outliers which should be complete today.
    1. Branching for ODUHIGH
    2. A couple of Projects for Release Notes: PTL are already engaged
    3. Sally Cooper working on PR statement for TSC to approve, if not then will use previous blog method for release communications.
    4. Sridhar Rao Will provide either PR for TSC to approve for TSC status report on 01-10 or we will use the blog method
  2. 19-12: Matt Watkins Gerrit software upgrade had to be rolled back and the maintenance overran by ~an hour. Will be run again during the vacation period.
  3. 19-12: K-Release timeline disucssed and release Approved. One remark : RIC APP project may be ready for the maintenance release.
  4. 12-12: Matt Watkins Upgrade Gerrit and restart Jenkins Tuesday 10AM to 11AM (message will be send to the slack channel).
  5. 12-12: Sridhar Rao & David Kinsey [AT&T] K-release => some highlights need to be populated. Tagging will be done on the 19th of december (PTLs to get the OK that
  6. hey are ready for tagging). Final realease ready before the end of the year. But voting will be on the 9th of January.
  7. 12-05: Sridhar Rao initiated a request for security scanning, will complete it and send the report. The release probably won't happen until January 9.
2. Other
  1. 01-09: Maintenance Release:
    1. AIMLFW: Unit Test Coverage increase/minor bug fixes
    2. SIM: New Python Simulator, some hicups in the Repo requires some correction.
    3. RICPLT: Conflict Manager Phase 1 missed K release but will likely be in the Maintenance release
New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
1. 01-09: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance: work still in progress on next weeks OSFG agenda. James will provide David with latest draft to try and expedite changes.
2. 12-19: MoU between LFN and O-RAN Alliance : work in progress with remarks from OSFG expected in preparation of the press release. We have some wordings concern about OSC present in the MoU. We need to confirm it before publishing it. OSC was already using ONAP Code and recently we are also working with Nephio. We are not happy with the statement that may be understood like "OSC should part of LFN". The MoU should be high level and not going specifically focusing on topics like Security (which is already known point for OSC). James Li will send an email to OSFG.
3. 12-05: Memorandum of understanding between O-RAN and LFN is under preparation with OSFG
4. 12-05: Letter of intent between AT&T and O-RAN regarding the funding of the lab. AT&T will send out the purchase orders for the tools.
5. 12-12: Part of the budget planned for this year (VIAVI) and a second wave is next year (Keysight). O-RAN is funding, AT&T is purshacing. Adjustment of the End User License Agreement to authorize the tools .
O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)
1. OSFG discussions huangjinri@chinamobile.com
  1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
    1. 01-09: O-RAN Process being submitted to OCOP. Need to understand how publication to OSC occurs.
  2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) and Nephio
  3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
  4. Other
Old Business
1. Tooling Changes
2. Project Updates
  1. Update on Nephio
  2. RSAC - Rittwik Jana or Martin Skorupski
    1. 01-09 There might be an OSC/OAI integration demo in the F2F lobby
    2. 01-09 There are a couple of demos that weren't ready for Oct F2F which will be presented in March F2F. Might only need 1 session.
    3. 01-09 Would like Sridhar Rao to be invited to March F2F OSFG/OSC sessions. He will need a visa so we need to start this soon.
  3. INT - bimo fransiscus asisi
    1. 01-09: Ray-Guang Cheng: Problem with integrated O-DU not communicating with TM-500. David Kinsey [AT&T]:Need project help to debug. RSAC to help do incremental builds to identify when disconnect occurs: 1) ODULOW → TM500 2) xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500 5) ODUHIGH->xFAPI->ODULOW→TM500. Need to isolate since all three components indicate they don't have a defect but integrated build doesn't work.
    2. 01-09: bimo fransiscus asisi: Need ASN1 fix. abdulwahid.w: Nokia has a resource but haven't reached out since new year. Wahid will get a status.
  4. INF - Jackie Huang
  5. RIC - abdulwahid.w
  6. RICAPP - Sunil Singh
  7. SIM - Alex Stancu
  8. OAM - Martin Skorupski
  9. SMO - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
  10. Non-RT RIC - John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  11. AIML - subhash
  12. ODUHIGH - Ankit Barve
  13. ODULOW - Peng Lu
  14. DOC - Weichen Ni
3. Internship updates

Meeting Summary and Closure

Action point: To check with OSFG about MoU between O-RAN Alliance and LFN
- K-release Approved
- Next Meeting 16 Jan 2025

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