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2019 07

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Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu (AT&T)

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda
   Orange	Vincent Danno
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar

   *Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  We have a qoram and can vote on activities.  

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/ user-2057e - update the access for the poll so Jinri can vote on the release name.Action/ user-2057e - provide an update of Release "A" name. 
   2. Action / John Murray CLA status.
   Action/ John
   3. Action/  John Keeney send out a proposal to the TOC email list for the non real time RIC proposal from Ericsson.   John Keeney is based out of Ireland.
   4. Action / TOC - Vote for non realtime RIC PTL change and consider High Street for the OAM Project PTL
      1. Proposal submitted from Martin Skorupski from High Street.  A Berlin software company. 
      2. Proposal change for Ericsson to lead non real-tine RIC Project PTL
   5. Murray will provide a contact from WG8 to David Kinsey 
   6. Action/ Vincent Danno
   start an
   7.  discuss the email
   discussion
   8. about who wants to participate at ONS Europe and how best to represent the ORAN software community space there.
   9. Action/ Jinri Huang come up with a naming convention to differentiate the Near real time RIC with the Non real time RIC that prevents the duplication of the short name (KEY) NRTRIC in LF Jira and Confluence.  Jira/Confluence do not support mixed case keys.  Keys are all upper case.
   10. Action/ David Kinsey start populating the Projects page on the wiki to describe projects.
6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
   1. Release planning link
2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
   1. Non Real Time RIC

3. Test & Integration Planning - Lusheng

4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
   1. Requirements Software Architecture Committee - Rittwik

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

8. Any Other Business (AOB)
9. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2019 07

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Zoom recording (2019-07-17-19 toc.mp4.zip)
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Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu (AT&T)

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x
   Orange	Vincent Danno	x
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar	x

   *Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  We have a qoram quorum and can vote on activities.  

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous MeetingMeeting
   1. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by Jinri David and seconded by David Vincent the minutes of the July 310, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
      1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/  user-2057e provide results for  - update the access for the poll so Jinri can vote on the release A name. 
      1. 17 votes and winning is color amber currently.  Deadline is the end of the month.
      Action/
      2. Polls are not visible if you are not logged in.  An LF account is needed.
      3. Colors are winning.  
   2. Action/ user-2057e - update the access for the poll.provide an update of Release "A" name. 
   3. Action / John Murray CLA status.
      1. CLA (ORAN charter, license) have been shared with LF and waiting for the approval of the ORAN license which was targeted for today.  There were communication problems that did not get all the information to the board members.  Pushing hard to get it finalized this week to get approved.  The ORAN members will push to figure out how to get this moving quickly to get on the ORAN site and get the CLA set up. 
         1. There are two so people can clearly pick which ones they want to manage.  LF has a platform dedicated to CLAs. LF will put it in place once approved.
         2. You sign the license once and not for each project.  Once you approve / accept license it is for all LF projects.  You don't have to accept the license multiple times across projects or repos.
            1. It may take longer than a week to turn around.
   4. Action/ Jinri send a draft of the ORAN license to Peter Moonki Hong.
      1. Samsung wanted to send me the email first.  I didn't receive his email.  I talked to Jun and sent him the license.
   5. Action / Trishan de Lanerolle provide user-d3360 with the LF process of setting up Sonarcube (unit test software quality) and Nexus IQ (dependency security and license compatibility).
      1. Lusheng - LF does support Sonar cloud not Sonar cube.  Costs are included.  We will work out the details of scanning our workflow.  We have a dashboard repo for the sonar scans.e
         1. Trishan - If you open a ticket we can set up github mirror.  
         2. Jinri - Regarding Nexus IQ Can we use this service to scan the code?
            1. Once seed code is moved into repo we need to create a jenkins job to do the scan.
   6. Action / Jack Send a reminder about nominating Rittwik as PTL for the Requirements Software and Architecture Committee (RSAC).
      1. Vote was done through email and Rittwik Jana will be the PTL.
         1. Jira status - Lusheng asked LF to create the RSAC Near Real Time RIC and Testing.  So far two projects were created.  Near real time RIC and Testing.  PTL has to login to the Jira project first so I sent a reminder to the two PTLs.  Matti and Rittwik will login when they return from the 
   7. Action /Jack - Report progress of NRTRIC proposals for PTLs from IBM and Ericsson.
      1. Jack - I received an email last night from Ericsson.
         1. John Keeney from Ericsson wants to have a call with Jack later on to get a more detailed discussion about the PTL.
            1. Action / John Keeney send out a proposal to the TOC email list for the non real time RIC proposal from Ericsson.   John Keeney is based out of Ireland.  Wants to contribute to the Near real time RIC project.
               1. Jack - Ericsson mentioned supporting 6 headcount in Non real time RIC.  All the TOC members need to participate and learn about the two proposal.  IBM did not submit a proposal.  Ericsson has come back with some information on their proposal and they are asking for an extension of one week for their proposal for Nrt-RIC.  High Street also has a proposal for a RIC PTL on the table.
                  1. Jinri - I vote we allow Ericsson an extra week or two due to vacation season.
                     1. Vincent - agrees with Jinri
                     2. Jack - agrees to give them one week so that we can make a clearer decision next week on the two proposals.  If not clear enough then look at it as quickly as possible.  
                     3. John Keeney - Thank you and one week should be more than enough.
   8. Action / Jack - Send out email proposal for ToC to vote on Requirements and Software Architecture subcommittee chair.
      1. Rittwik Jana is the chair and was voted this week.
   9. Action / TOC - Vote for non realtime RIC PTL
      1. Proposal from Martin Skorupski from High Street.  Berlin software company. 
      2. Waiting for proposals from IBM and Ericsson.
   10. 1. Jack - Exchanged email with Tristan.  There is work to get the LF work set up.  I am talking to the PM on the ORAN Alliance side.  The ORAN charter and license will be hosted on ORAN Alliance site referenced from this site.  I have not yet received final approval for the license from the board.  I will reach out to the leadership.
   11. Action / John Keeney send out a proposal to the TOC email list for the non real time RIC proposal from Ericsson.   John Keeney is based out of Ireland.
   12. Action / TOC - Vote for non realtime RIC PTL change and consider High Street for the OAM Project PTL
       1. Proposal submitted from Martin Skorupski from High Street.  A Berlin software company. 
       2. Proposal change for Ericsson to lead non real-tine RIC Project PTL
       3. We received two PTL proposal.
          1. John Keeney for Non real time RIC.
             1. John - In terms of NrtRIC and OAM scoping will be a challenge.  Both rely on A1 interfaces.
          2. Martin Skorupski for OA&M
             1. Martin - there is some overlap we need to minimize the overlap by working together.  
                1. When will you define the scope between the two?
                   1. John and Martin will have their first discussion this week to define the scope.  It has not been discussed yet.
                   2. Action/ John Keeney Martin Skorupski define the scope of the projects.
       4. Proposal to place Martin Skorupski  as PTL for OA&M. On motion made by Jack and seconded by David.  Martin Skorupski was approved by the TOC members for the OA&M project. 
          1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
       5. Proposal to place John Keeney as Non real time RIC PTL.  On motion made by Jack and seconded by David.  John Keeney was approved by the TOC members as the PTL for the Non real time RIC project. 
          1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
   13. Action/ John Murray will provide a contact from WG8 to David Kinsey 
   14. Action/ Vincent Danno start an email discussion about who wants to participate at ONS Europe and how best to represent the ORAN software community space there.
       1. Vincent - I was late to start the discussion.  It has been started.
          1. Is there a deadline?
             1. There is a deadline for submission to the LF for talks or demos.  The deadline has passed.  We have to coordinate amongst ourselves to support the conference.
   15. Action/ Jinri Huang come up with a naming convention to differentiate the Near real time RIC with the Non real time RIC that prevents the duplication of the short name (KEY) NRTRIC in LF Jira and Confluence.  Jira/Confluence do not support mixed case keys.  Keys are all upper case.
   16. Action/ David Kinsey start populating the Projects page on the wiki to describe projects.
       1. Rittwik - How do we proceed without a PTL on the project? We have epics that need to be worked.
          1. we may need to recruit temporary PTLs.  Not ideal but we need PTLs in order to proceed.
6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
   1. Release planning link
      1. We continue to slip we should be starting our preparation for test cases sprint planning and design.  We are behind with the near real time RIC and xApps have activity in this space but because of the vacation season it is not progressing quickly now. Most likely we are not going to meet our M2 freeze.  We will have to discuss (on the mail list) to reduce a develeopment sprint or expand into December.  The goal is to see how far we can advance.  Comments or thoughts?
2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
   1. Non real time RIC

3. Test & Integration Planning - Lusheng

   1. We will move forward with Nexus IQ and Sonar cube.
   2. Nrt-RIC having issues with pushing LF registries.  WIP.
   3. Continuously working with RSAC to finalize the epics.  We had a number of items with potential contributions.  We need to clarify the boundaries between this test team the ORAN Alliance test team.  I found who the potential contributors so I will set up a call with them.
4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
   1. Requirements Software Architecture Committee - Rittwik
      1. Epics closure
      2. Want to improve the logging.  Eliza Celenti from AT&T will support.
      3. Action/ David Kinsey will finalize the epics.
         1. David - the working group meeting was not prepared on Tuesday so we have to discuss more.
         2. WG8 person is available.  Action/ John Murray will provide a contact from WG8 to David Kinsey 
      4. Jinri - RSIC call WG3 will discuss our requirements and epics in todays meeting.  During the Tokyo meeting I sent out an email for the WG co chair.  I will send an email to them tomorrow.  
5. 1. 1. Jack has updated the page.  Aligned the calendar with the working groups.  The current timeline we are in week 17 getting ready to start dev sprint 1.  The projects that are in place can participate in the dev1 sprint.  A lot of what's going to happen in this release is seed code.  We still have to discuss if we want to change the schedule.  Stick to the schedule and deliver.  I've added another row at the bottom of the calendar to map the connection points of the overall schedule.  We want to make sure we meet with the working groups.  The schedule reflects the reviews with the working groups.  After two development sprints we can come back to the working groups and give them a demo of the second sprint.  Once we complete all the dev. sprints and have something working we will review with ORAN at the end of the cycle.  
         1. Rittwik - It will be good to align with the face to face meetings.  Can we do the demonstrations (demos).  
            1. The face to face meetings are not currently aligned.  
         2. These are the alignments that best fit with the software process.  I have come up with a first draft of "B" release and the dates.  This is a proposal.  There is a break in the calendar from December 21 -January 6.  Most of the groups are unavailable during this time.  Let me know if there are other dates that the team needs to manage.
         3. Action/ TOC Review, refine the calendars
            1. Chinese new year?  
               1. Yes, that is the feedback I am looking for.  We will follow what the community wants to do.  We can't do too many but want to make it fair.
6. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
   1. Non Real Time RIC

7. Test & Integration Planning - Lusheng

8. Report Out of Sub-Committees
   1. Requirements Software Architecture Committee - Rittwik

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

   1. Jinri Huang is concerned that there has not bee enough discussion around the PTL selection.
      1. Both Martin and David agreed to work out the scope of their projects amongst themselves.   

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

   1. Jack - I saw an email on Altran who would like to contribute to UE and we also have an Ericsson item.
   2. Lusheng - regards to Thoralf Czichy for a repo.  Regarding many repos.  It is easier to manage a team.  Committers need to understand all the code.  The CI tool chain is organized per repos such as scanning and building jobs.  When you have a project when subcomponents are being integrated into a single jenkins job it is difficult.  That is why we want to have many sub-components.  If you have many sub directories the jenkins jobs triggered will trigger detection and run over all the sub directories.  It takes a long time.  The IT recommendation was to create multiple repos.  From an integration, test and LF perspective both groups recommend creating separate repos.  From CI it is easier.  
   3. Jack called a motion to approve the repos requested by NrtRIC.  Jinri seconded the motion.
      1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
   4. Vincent - ONS Europe 
      1. Major event ONS Summit.  Our Software Community was announced there.  We need to keep the noise around ORAN so I wanted to inform community about this ONS Europe in September.  Is there any plan from any of the companies to demo and participant.  Action/ TOC we need to be involved.  Action/ Vincent Danno start an email discussion about who wants to participate and how best to represent ORAN software community space there.  
         1. ORAN Alliance provides $10,000 to fund such events. 
   5. Last week we wanted to pull together PTLs for other projects.  ORU, ODU, Documentation... 
      1. We need to step up the contributions to these other projects otherwise we won't have activity in those projects in this receive
   6. Simplification of the Near Real Time and Non-real time RIC.  Action/ Jinri Huang come up with a naming convention that does not confuse the user.
   7. Altran made a proposal to contribute one piece of the UE simulator component.  They are putting together an epic.  Not sure that they will be the PTL for the simulator project.  I wanted to make sure I went over that in the open call.
   8. Jinri - suppose some companies are interested where can they find the working scope of the projects?
      1. Action/ David Kinsey start populating the Projects page on the wiki to describe projects.
8. Any Other Business (AOB)
9. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
   1. Votes
      1. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by Jinri David and seconded by David Vincent the minutes of the July 310, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
         1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
      2. Email proposal for ToC to vote on Requirements and Software Architecture subcommittee chair.
         1. VOTE: was taken through email and user-59b16 will be the Chairman for the Requirements and Software Architecture Committee.
      Jack called a motion to approve the repos requested by NrtRIC.  Jinri seconded the motion.
      3. Proposal to place Martin Skorupski of HighStreet as PTL for OA&M. On motion made by John Murray  and seconded by user-2057e .  Martin Skorupski was approved by the TOC members for the OA&M project. 
         1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
      4. Proposal to place John Keeney as Non real time RIC PTL.  On motion made by John Murray and seconded by user-2057e .  John Keeney was approved by the TOC members as the PTL for the Non real time RIC project. 
         1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
   Action/ user-2057e - update the access for the poll so Jinri can vote on the release name.
   2. Actions
   3. 1. Action/ user-2057e - provide an update of Release "A" name. 
      2. Action / John Murray CLA status
   .Action / TOC - Vote for non realtime RIC PTLProposal submitted from Martin Skorupski from High Street
   4. 1. .
     A Berlin software company. 
   6. Waiting for proposal from Ericsson.
   7. 1. Action/
    
   8. 1. John
   Keeney send out a proposal to the TOC email list for the non real time RIC proposal from Ericsson.   John Keeney is based out of Ireland.Action/ John
   9. 1. Murray will provide a contact from WG8 to David Kinsey 
      2. Action/ Vincent Danno
   start an
   10. 1.  status of the email discussion about who wants to participate at ONS Europe and how best to represent the ORAN software community space there.
       2. Action/ Jinri Huang come up with a naming convention to differentiate the Near real time RIC with the Non real time RIC that prevents the duplication of the short name (KEY) NRTRIC in LF Jira and Confluence.  Jira/Confluence do not support mixed case keys.  Keys are all upper case
   .Action/ David Kinsey start populating the Projects page on the wiki to describe projects
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