2025-01-28 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

28 Jan 2025

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (highstreet & OSC SIM)
• Subhash Kumar Singh (subhash) (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)
• Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)
• Saul Gill (Ericsson EST)

• Sridhar Rao (LF)

• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (Rutgers)
• 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 2025-01-28 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting) 

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lores)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Next Meetings:
  • Cancel during F2F?
    
    

• 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):
  • This week's TOC (Thursday):

• OSFG: (Martin Skorupski)

  • No update or significant progress this week

  • Work ongoing in OCOP/OSFG about O-RAN process for code-fragments in specs. OSARP v1 available for review/comment before F2F.

• RSAC (Rittwik Jana  Martin Skorupski )
  • Minutes: RSAC Meetings 

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• (Quick summary this week - short on time
• Wrapping up loose ends for last release. - documentation, testing, deployments etc.
  • Ref Release K
• Scope for L Release still being considered. Likely reduced from previous releases.
• End-to-end demo & issues: Martin Skorupski Alex Stancu Sridhar Rao
  • Alex Stancu created a couple of Jira tickets
    • NONRTRIC-1048 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • NONRTRIC-1047 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • INT-161 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • Related to https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/nonrtric/plt/ranpm/+/13974 from Sridhar Rao ?
    • Don't think a new repo is needed. Will try incorporate changes into existing functionality.
    • Since datafilecollector can run multiple instances, should be okay to have multiple formats for different instance. Controlled by a config option?
  • Alex Stancu & Sridhar Rao still comparing notes, and Aravindhan Ayyanathan & John Keeney (Ericsson EST) examining Sridhar's PR (above) to try merge it into NONRTRIC RANPM.
  • Email from Sridhar Rao about issue startingRANPM docker-setup  charts due to a version problem with OPA.
    • Leads to topic creation failure due to un-authorized.
    • John Keeney (Ericsson EST) will investigate further & create a ticket if needed.
    • Sridhar Rao suggests pinning OPA version to  0.70.0-envoy-12 

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• No update this week

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• (Quick summary this week - short on time)
• still wrapping up K-Release artifacts
• Working on scope for L Release

AI/ML platform project (subhash

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• L-Release planning
  
  • Performance measurement of AI/ML models
    • e.g. model drift
  • Alignment with spec

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• Meeting notes Meeting notes
• No specific update

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

  • Lots of small updates in K-Release & ongoing. Focus on ingestion adapters in this release.
  • Issue: TEIV containers not starting. SMO-173 - Getting issue details... STATUS   (Karthick N Srinivasa Raghavan - Keysight)
    • Working on it now. Discussions over email ongoing.
      
      • Issue seems to be only in Docker-mode.
      • Suggest adding a short delay for DB to come up correctly (handled with an init-script in K8S deployment)

OSC Integration / INT (fransiscus bimo )

• Minutes: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/IAT/Current+Meetings
• No update

Paris F2F planning

• Martin Skorupski Would like to demo end-to-end OAI, OAM, SMO at F2F
  • Similar to Sridhar's work as discussed previously & below
  • Ref NONRTIC above re ranpm event formats

Demo/Discussion -Deployment use cases  Sridhar Rao

• PM rApp in NONRTRIC ranpm
  • No update
• Replacing DMaaP-MR with Strimzi Kafka bridge
  • No update
• OAM K8s solutions/deployment?
  
  • No update

Other Questions / Comments / AOB:

• N.K. Shankaranarayanan Latest draft of Slides for O-RAN SMO using ONAP/OSC/ etc.
  • DRAFT:
    • 
    • Considering where/how/if to add nephio/OAI/openstack/starlingx etc. on these slides.
    • Slide will never be complete. Intended as sample deployment & discussion slide.

Meeting ends 42 min