2024-11-19 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

Time & Location:

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Date

19 Nov 2024

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Subhash Kumar Singh (subhash) (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)
• Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)
• RAVITEJA KARUMURI (EST) (Ericsson EST)
• Sridhar Rao (LF)
• Varadarajan Srinivasan  Varadarajan (Samsung)
• May not have captured a full correct attendee list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2024-11-19 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting) 

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lores)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Next Meetings:

  • 2024-11-19

  • 2024-11-26

  • 2024-12-03 Martin OOO

  • 2024-12-10 (John OOO)
  • 2024-12-17 (John OOO)
    
    
• Note: Discussion after the meeting:
  • We've had several requests to move this meeting earlier - but it is difficult to find a slot.
    We'll discuss this in next meetings.

• Calendar: 

  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

  • https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-meetings/calendar

• OSC SMO project calls now move to its own time slot - alternate Thursdays
  

  • See OSC RSAC Calendar: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RSAC/calendars

  • See also OSC Meetings calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

  • (Note this meeting to open to anyone, including non-ORAN members)

  • We will maintain this slot for ONAP Alignment, and try flag issues/question to/from SMO meetings.

  • See OSC SMO Project meeting notes

• See also OSC AIML Project meeting notes

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC & OSFG & RSAC calls last week

• TOC:

  • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • Request for anyone who knows the Python archives?
    • bimo fransiscus asisi requests all PTLs to complete a page on deployment

      • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IAT/pages/70483970/Deployment+Guideline+Template  

      • Will there be a central list of these?
  • This week's TOC (Thursday):

• OSFG: (Martin Skorupski)

  • No major update
  • Lots of good insights from ETSI meeting last week:
    
    • Martin will prepare a summary / insights page for TOC:

      • Week 2024-11-11 - ETSI: Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services Conference & Hackfests

    • Perhaps O-RAN-SC could adopt some of the good parts?
    • Same issues with Licenses from ETSI. Was discussed.

• RSAC (Rittwik Jana  Martin Skorupski )
  • Minutes: RSAC Meetings 
  • No update

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• F2F: Demos went well - Added videos&slides on page: 
  • 2024-10 O-RAN F2F Montreal#2024-10O-RANF2FMontreal-2024-10O-RANF2FMontreal-Demos 
• Pulling together extended versions of F2F demos - will be added to the F2F page above, or can re-run demos here.
• Needed to update some integration tests to use most recent J-Release images & maintenance versions
• Looking at OpenCAPIF as discussed at ETSI SNS event last week
  • Possibly usable as part of current NONRTRIC Service Manager
• Fixed entry/exit logging for A1-Controller - was more difficult than expected!

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Still working on new Python repo setup.
  • Still fighting with Python
  • Request fr anyone with admin access to Python archives to make themselves known.
  • LF working through issue with support Python repos, and an issue with workflows for info.yaml & permissions.

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Discussing learnings from
  • Week 2024-11-11 - ETSI: Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services Conference & Hackfests
• New yang files released - checking if issues are still there - todo.
  
  • More analysis on hybrid/heirachical O-RU deployments.
    • Wg10 / Wg5

AI/ML platform project (subhash )

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

• Calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

• Working to implement / align with new O-RAN APIs
  • Model Registration & Model Training esp.
• New Repos:
  
  • Request for anyone with admin access to Python archives to make themselves known.
  • LF working through issue with support Python repos, and an issue with workflows for info.yaml & permissions.

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• Meeting notes Meeting notes
• No specific update

• Topology & Inventory: (John Keeney (Ericsson EST) :

  • F2F demo went well
    
    • See 2024-10 O-RAN F2F Montreal#2024-10O-RANF2FMontreal-2024-10O-RANF2FMontreal-Demos 
  • Working on 'Groups' support for entities & relations
    • API is already their, but functionality in pgress
    • Static groups & dynamic groups
  • Some model updates ongoing - to support O-RAN interfaces, e.g. O1, O2, A1, E2, etc.
    • Model updates might be useful for WG10?
  • Working with Martin Skorupski on ingestion of data from OAM network-generator - as a proof point of model updates & way of working for ingestion.

    • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/oam/+/13752

  • From Last week - Still ongoing
    
    • Need to start working with others in OSC & beyond to help populate TEIV registry with data from their 'sources of truth'
    • Hope to make alot of use of TEIV in demos/rapps in K-Release
    • Refs:
      • doc: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-smo-teiv/en/latest/data-models-guide.html
      • code: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=smo/teiv.git;a=tree;f=teiv/src/main/resources/models

OSC Integration / INT (fransiscus bimo )

• Minutes: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/IAT/Current+Meetings
• No update
• Ongoing chat with Martin Skorupski & fransiscus bimo about integration

Demo/Discussion - Some issues with deployment/use cases  Sridhar Rao

• F2F demos went great
• Trying to get Filecollector changes updated.
  • Forgot to get an update on issue from previous weeks ...
    • Issue with new RANPM code - Datfilecollector
      • Tests are failing: org.oran.datafile.tasks.FileCollectorTest
• Currently working on Core N/w
  • SD-Core
  • Martin Skorupski : working with open5Gs. Hard to find a reusable OAM interface for core
  • Trying to find which is easiest/best to use. Will update in coming weeks.
• Wondering about DMaap → Kafka-bridge vs vanilla kafka.
  • Pro/cons for both approaches ....

Other Questions / Comments / AOB:

• Martin Skorupski some requests to use content from wiki in a book ... Contents are Creative Commons? - TBC

Meeting ends 42 min