Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

2023 11 16 

Recording 

Meeting Recording:  Link

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner): John-Paul Lane (Ericsson) 
  
• Previous scribe: October: Viavi September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision:Minutes approval for last TOC meeting (maintain only the items for current month): Motion proposed by John Paul Lane seconded by Jakub Novy, motion approved unanimously.
      
2. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. No new items added
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. 11-02: Federico introduced himself. Together with him are two of his colleagues, Chris and Bala. They expressed the contributing interest from Redhat to OSC. A big and warm welcome from the team. Thrilled to see the new contribution source. Federico further indicated that they are both in Nephio and OSC. Plus, some of his colleagues will be attending the joint OSC-OAI workshop in Nov. Plus, the initial interest of area in OSC from Redhat would be on the infrastructure project. 
   2. 11-02: Agreement: Proposal suggested by Jinri to remove the notes (strike out) from previous months when starting the notes for a new month. Otherwise the message would be too clumsy and repetitive. Team agree

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. AP Review
      
      1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
      2. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP:Jinri Huang  to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
         1. Jinri Huang From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
            1. Jinri Huang O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
         2. Irfan Ghauri OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
            1. 11-09 AP Irfan Ghauri For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
      3. 11-09: Review AP: 110-2: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
         1. Jinri Huang No update this week. Will continue
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
   1. 1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
            1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected; 
            2. 11-09: Jakub Novy mentioned that SCCL was discussed at this week's OSFG meeting, Suggest to follow up at next week TOC. More decisions needed at O-RAN level.
            3. 11-16: Jakub Novy There is a meeting with O-RAN legal next week to review any potential issues. 
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. Joint Workshop: https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/ 
               1. 11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN; 
               2. 11-09: Irfan Ghauri reminder that workshop happens at Innovation Campus in Burlington not Boston Downtown. Approx 150 registered participants. Full agenda.
                  
                  1. 11-09 AP Irfan Ghauri to resend agenda to mailing list.
               3. 11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft -
                  1. 11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR. 
                  2. 11-09: See AP review above.
                     1. Jinri Huang From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
                        1. Jinri Huang O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
                     2. Irfan Ghauri OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
                        1. 11-09 AP Irfan Ghauri For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
               4. 11-16: Irfan Ghauri The workshop was generally very well attended. NTIA and NSF attended to give government perspective on O-RAN. Good to get the opportunity to address government agencies directly. Demos were very well received. Presented the next phases of collaboration between OSC and OAI e.g. Nephio and OSC collaboration for SMO and relationship to OAI. Meeting next week with Radisys to discuss potential integration of OAI CU with OSC. Next steps are to try to operationalise the OSC collaboration roadmap with, for example, Nephio. Recordings of workshop, poster sessions and demo sessions to be made available online shortly. Need to have a plan / roadmap for OSC features through 2024 similar to the OAI roadmap.
               5. 11-16: Tracy Van Brakle There is an opportunity for teams to present demo proposals at the upcoming North America O-RAN plugfest readout on Nov 29th. Tracy will post further information to the public mailing list.    N    
                  
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
            
            1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle: Draft of First version - aiming for Release 0 at end of year.
               
               1. Link for those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda 
         4. Other
            
            1. 11-09: Mix up with times for this week's OSFG meeting. Calendar has now been updated to 7AM EST (Jinri Huang).
6. Standing/old business

1. 1. OSC Lab
      1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle Looking forward to discussions in Boston of having OSC labs working for upcoming plugfest, but also for experimentation & demos
         
         1. See also links from OSFG last week. For those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
      2. 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
         1.  11-09: See AP review above.
            1.  Jinri Huang: This table is for mapping template between project & specs. No update this week. Will continue
      3. 11-09: Sridhar Rao License Scanning will be complete with report by 10 Dec. See checklist on wikipage: Release Checklist#I-Release
      4. 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
      5. 11-16: Sridhar has reviewed the status of release I documentation. Many documents still outstanding. AP: All PTLs to update release I checklist and ensure a plan to finalise release docs. 

   3. Project reports (by features) (Note: From Aug. 3, it is decided that Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features)

• • • • E2E call - pairwise testing, Jian Li , Nov. 2
      • Lab updates, Jian Li , Nov. 2 
        
        • 11-02: Presentation here
      • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
        • 11-09: N.K. Shankaranarayanan Provided a update on Opensource projects in SMO space & mapping to 'Decoupled SMO Architecture'
          • Presentation: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/download/attachments/78217260/dec_smo_flows_v1.4_20231109.pptx?api=v2 
          • Jinri Huang Suggestion to add dates to slides as they change.  
      • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
        • 11-09: No update this week.
          • Come back to this next week, Nov 16
          • AP: Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
      • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
        • AP: Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy  on Nov 16
      • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16
        • AP: Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
        • 11-16: Team data set in Nexus - publicly available to read. AI/ML team looking into model training. Energy savings data set being reviewed by MTUST. Release I will deliver the enablers and E2E demo will be available in release J.

              7. Any Other Business (AoB)

• • • Balaji Varadaraju N.K. Shankaranarayanan Possible confusion with link used to join (Message: "Host has not started the meeting")
      • make sure to use the correect Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/6540568082 
      • (Old link is still shown Group Email Notification)

              8. Meeting Summary and Closure

• • 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template. 11-16: Ongoing
  • 11-09: Decision:Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Jinri Huang seconded by Jakub Novy, motion approved unanimously.
  • 11-09: AP: Irfan Ghauri For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
  • 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist. 11-16: Done. All PTLs to update the release I wiki. See new AP.
  • 11-09: AP: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
  • 11-09: AP: Thoralf Czichy Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy  on Nov 16
  • 11-09: AP: Alex Stancu Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16
  • 11-16: AP: All PTLs Release I checklist needs to be updated on wiki by all PTLs.
  • 11-16: AP: David Kinsey  and Tracy Van Brakle to review OSC lab contract with AT&T.

2023 11 09

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Recording

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner): John-Paul Lane (Ericsson) John Keeney (Ericsson EST)
  
• Previous scribe: October: Viavi September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision:Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Jinri Huang seconded by Jakub Novy, motion approved unanimously.
      
2. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. No new items added
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. 11-02: Federico introduced himself. Together with him are two of his colleagues, Chris and Bala. They expressed the contributing interest from Redhat to OSC. A big and warm welcome from the team. Thrilled to see the new contribution source. Federico further indicated that they are both in Nephio and OSC. Plus, some of his colleagues will be attending the joint OSC-OAI workshop in Nov. Plus, the initial interest of area in OSC from Redhat would be on the infrastructure project. 
   2. 11-02: Agreement: Proposal suggested by Jinri to remove the notes (strike out) from previous months when starting the notes for a new month. Otherwise the message would be too clumsy and repetitive. Team agree

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. AP Review
      
      1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
      2. 11-09: Review AP: 11-02: AP:Jinri Huang  to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
         1. Jinri Huang From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
            1. Jinri Huang O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
         2. Irfan Ghauri OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
            1. 11-09 AP Irfan Ghauri For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
      3. 11-09: Review AP: 110-2: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
         1. Jinri Huang No update this week. Will continue
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
   1. 1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
            1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected; 
            2. 11-09: Jakub Novy mentioned that SCCL was discussed at this week's OSFG meeting, Suggest to follow up at next week TOC. More decisions needed at O-RAN level.
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. Joint Workshop: https://openairinterface.org/joint-osc-oai-workshop-end-to-end-open-source-reference-designs-for-o-ran/ 
               1. 11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN; 
               2. 11-09: Irfan Ghauri reminder that workshop happens at Innovation Campus in Burlington not Boston Downtown. Approx 150 registered participants. Full agenda.
                  
                  1. 11-09 AP Irfan Ghauri to resend agenda to mailing list.
               3. 11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft -
                  1. 11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR. 
                  2. 11-09: See AP review above.
                     1. Jinri Huang From Zbynek & Jindrich: O-RAN changing PR process so no new PRs this year.
                        1. Jinri Huang O-RAN can promote the PR if issued through OAI channel & Add links to it
                     2. Irfan Ghauri OAI can help here. Draft proposed. Ongoing & will revert with an update.
                        1. 11-09 AP Irfan Ghauri For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle.
            
            1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle: Draft of First version - aiming for Release 0 at end of year.
               
               1. Link for those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda 
         4. Other
            
            1. 11-09: Mix up with times for this week's OSFG meeting. Calendar has now been updated to 7AM EST (Jinri Huang).
6. Standing/old business

1. 1. OSC Lab
      1. 11-09: Tracy Van Brakle Looking forward to discussions in Boston of having OSC labs working for upcoming plugfest, but also for experimentation & demos
         
         1. See also links from OSFG last week. For those who can access O-RAN Wiki: https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSFG/pages/3020881939/2023-11-06+OSFG+Agenda
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
      2. 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
         1.  11-09: See AP review above.
            1.  Jinri Huang: This table is for mapping template between project & specs. No update this week. Will continue
      3. 11-09: Sridhar Rao License Scanning will be complete with report by 10 Dec. See checklist on wikipage: Release Checklist#I-Release
      4. 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
         

   3. Project reports (by features) (Note: From Aug. 3, it is decided that Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features)

• • • • E2E call - pairwise testing, Jian Li , Nov. 2
      • Lab updates, Jian Li , Nov. 2 
        
        • 11-02: Presentation here
      • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
        • 11-09: N.K. Shankaranarayanan Provided a update on Opensource projects in SMO space & mapping to 'Decoupled SMO Architecture'
          • Presentation: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/download/attachments/78217260/dec_smo_flows_v1.4_20231109.pptx?api=v2 
          • Jinri Huang Suggestion to add dates to slides as they change.  
      • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
        • 11-09: No update this week.
          • Come back to this next week, Nov 16
          • AP: Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
      • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
        • AP: Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy  on Nov 16
      • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16
        • AP: Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16

              7. Any Other Business (AoB)

• • • Balaji Varadaraju N.K. Shankaranarayanan Possible confusion with link used to join (Message: "Host has not started the meeting")
      • make sure to use the correect Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/6540568082 
      • (Old link is still shown Group Email Notification)

              8. Meeting Summary and Closure

• • 11-02: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.
  • 11-09: Decision:Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Jinri Huang seconded by Jakub Novy, motion approved unanimously.
  • 11-09: AP: Irfan Ghauri For OAI/OSC workshop: will revert with an update on PR content & channel
  • 11-09: AP: Sridhar Rao will report back next week on progress/status of release process & checklist
  • 11-09: AP: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Project/Feature Update from Seshu Kumar Mudiganti on Nov 16
  • 11-09: AP: Thoralf Czichy Project/Feature Update from Thoralf Czichy  on Nov 16
  • 11-09: AP: Alex Stancu Project/Feature Update from Alex Stancu on Nov 16

2023 11 02

Recording 

Meeting Recording: See here

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner): Jinri Huang (CMCC)
• Next scribe:  November 2023:  John Paul Lane will cover the remaining weeks 
  
• Previous scribe: October: Viavi September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision:Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Ankit Barve, seconded by John-Paul Lane, motion approved unanimously.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. 11-02: Federico introduced himself. Together with him are two of his colleagues, Chris and Bala. They expressed the contributing interest from Redhat to OSC. A big and warm welcome from the team. Thrilled to see the new contribution source. Federico further indicated that they are both in Nephio and OSC. Plus, some of his colleagues will be attending the joint OSC-OAI workshop in Nov. Plus, the initial interest of area in OSC from Redhat would be on the infrastructure project. 
   2. 11-02: Agreement: Proposal suggested by Jinri to remove the notes (strike out) from previous months when starting the notes for a new month. Otherwise the message would be too clumsy and repetitive. Team agreed.

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. AP Review
      1. 11-02: The f2f meeting recording was put on the wiki. See here: 2023-10 O-RAN F2F Phoenix
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
   1. 1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement:
            1. 11-02: Jakub: currently handled in WG10 tooling team; 2 main topics: SCCL itself, should be included in the code artifact, 2nd is the repository to make the file public; in progress, some braining storming, nothing for OSC to use directly; WG10 to generate the requirements; take to other WG, OFFICE, or OCOP, working on the design part of the thing; more difficult than expected; 
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 11-02: the joint workshop, full and good agenda. Plus, OAI has good relationship with SRSRAN; 
            2. 11-02: O-RAN and OAI will consider and work on a joint PR. 
            3. 11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle. 
         4. Others
            1. 11-02: Agreement: to remove the "O-RAN next phase" subsection since it may be duplicate with other parts;
6. Standing/old business

1. 1. OSC Lab
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 11-02: Mapping b/w OSC project work and WG spec. work discussed. There is a table for this mapping for H release. See here: H Release (The table at the end of the page). Good example from INF project with a detailed excel file to record the detailed mapping. Jinri encourage the PTL to make such efforts, or at least fill in the table. Some echos on this suggestion. Some comments are that the work is beyond trial and time-consuming. sometime difficult since some spec. may not have stage-3 defined. Another suggestion is to use the conformance spec. Jinri responded that the value of the work is significant. Yet admitted community is contribution-driven. Yet still strongly encourage the team to do this.
      2. 1102: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template.

   3. Project reports (by features) (Note: From Aug. 3, it is decided that Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features

• • • • E2E call - pairwise testing, Jian Li , Nov. 2
      • Lab updates, Jian Li , Nov. 2  
        • Presentation here
      • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan , Nov. 9
      • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti , Nov. 9
      • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy , Nov. 16
      • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu, Nov. 16

              7. Any Other Business (AoB)

              8. Meeting Summary and Closure

• • 11-02: Agreement: Proposal suggested by Jinri to remove the notes (strike out) from previous months when starting the notes for a new month. Otherwise the message would be too clumsy and repetitive. Team agreed
  • 11-02: Agreement: to remove the "O-RAN next phase" subsection since it may be duplicate with other parts
  • 11-02: AP: Jinri Huang to reach O-RAN office to discuss the joint PR draft
  • 1102: AP: Jinri to work with Jackie to refine the table template

2023 10 26

Recording 

Meeting Recording: O-RAN-SC TOC's Personal Meeting Room - Zoom

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner):  Ultan Kelly (Viavi)
• Next scribe:  November 2023:  John Paul Lane apart from first week of November which will be Jinri Huang 
  
• Previous scribe: October: Viavi September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Ultan Kelly  seconded by Aviv Guetta  motion approved unanimously.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. AP Review
   2. 2023-10-26: David Kinsey noted we are in the penultimate sprint for the I release.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
   1. 1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
            1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA Jinri Huang 
               1. 2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
               2. 2023-09-14: Jakub Novy David Kinsey mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
            2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
            3. Anything else?
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
            2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
            3. 2023-09-07: Irfan Ghauri shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: Jinri Huang to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by Irfan Ghauri 
            4. 2023-09-14: Irfan Ghauri provided an update on Committee Meeting.
               1. Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
               2. Made call for speakers and panels.
               3. Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
               4. David Kinsey Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
            5. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey highlighted the low participation from O-RAN SC in demo and keynote point of view. RIC, X-APP, AIML could be potential area. Irfan Ghauri said O-RAN SC participation will be accommodated. 
               1. John Keeney requested for clarification on OAI,OSFG & ORAN SC relationship. David Kinsey clarified that the objective is to support the common goal of O-RAN Proliferation and showcase of O-RAN Capabilities with reference design.
               2. John Keeney requested to get a clarification on the MoU. Irfan Ghauri mentioned that it is very generic and is between O-RAN Alliance & OAI, doesn't cover any licensing details. 
               3. John Keeney requested clarification on licensing terms. Irfan Ghauri clarified that each community will follow their respective community guidelines.
            6. 2023-10-12: Irfan Ghauri Agenda for November Joint OSC-OAI Workshop is finalizing. Some final touch are being applied.
            7. 2023-10-26:  Irfan Ghauri and Seshu Kumar Mudiganti discussed November Joint OSC-OAI Workshop in Boston and noted an IMS orchestration topic that has momentum with both groups. One final speaking slot remains unfilled.
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
            1. 1. 1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
                  2. Work three things in parallel:
                     1. demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
                        1. AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
                        2. EU
                        3. North America
                     2. sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
                        
                        1. O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
                        2. Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
                     3. Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
                  3. 2023-10-26: Blueprint still a work in progress and should have more information next week. A number of potential blueprints exist.
            2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October 17 to 19
               1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
               2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey Irfan Ghauri 
               3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
               4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized.  Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
               5. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out. 
               6. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey clarified that we have received 5 session (against the 7 requested) . Jinri Huang to invite all the O-RAN Alliance WGs for the sessions. David Kinsey will organize the schedule and update the F2F Event Page. 
               7. 2023-10-05: Registration is open and the agenda is being finalized and is still possible for more speakers to attend and space for demos, esp. interested in O-Cloud.
               8. 2023-10-12: Some agenda items still in motion. Moving Wednesday Session with MVP-C to Monday. Need to re-take slot which was released. Need time slot since some MVP AI/ML members will be remote in China. Demo slots still open. Will release session if no more demos identified.
               9. 2023-10-26: David Kinsey to post recordings of the various meetings. Had a discussion about the role of the various workgroups and their role defining interface and interface files. The AI/ML SMO Energy Saving use-case is aligned well with the OSC work with 4 modes of saving (Cell, channel mgmt, event sleep and cloud entity savings) but in the November Train the groups are still debating the granularity of control over the E2 interface to the DU. You may have fine-grain visibility but different level of controls. 
         4. Others
            1. 2023-10-26: David Kinsey noted potential synergy between OSC and srsRAN Open Source RAN project as broad goals and projects may align. srsRAN may look to be ORAN compliant and interested to participate in plugfests. 
6. Standing/old business

1. 1. OSC Lab
      1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey 
      2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
      3. 2023-10-05: Equipment is rack-and-stacked but not networked. David Kinsey Will have an update at the face-face meeting. Looking for an O-Cloud option.
      4. 2023-10-12: Supply Chain shortage, missing circuit breaker doesn't allow everything to be turned on. Missing chillers also means not too many things can be turned on due to temperature limits. No date when issue will be resolved.
      5. 2023-10-26 Same status with Supply Chain shortage and now may impact the I-Release, if there is no lab to test. Quotes for lab tooling are re-issued with the goal for end of year purchases.  
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
      2. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
      3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting.  Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
      4. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
      5. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath 
      6. 2023-09-28 Rittwik Jana provided an offline update:
         • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
         • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
         • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
         • 2023-10-05: Nexus 3 Repo setup https://nexus3.o-ran-sc.org/repositories/datasets and once permissions are set Sridhar Rao to upload TIM data sets. Viavi data-sets still a WIP.
      7. 2023-10-05: No update but David Kinsey noted a three-week cycle for project updates and next one will after the face-face meeting.

   3. Project reports (by features)

      1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
      2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
      3. Project Reports

1. • • • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023: link-to-2023-09-28-report
       • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023 
         • Alex Stancu Could not be available. Provided the following status update:

           • To summarize what has happened:

             • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
             • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
             • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
       • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan  - 21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
         • 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
         • 2023-10-12: Shankar presented draft of F2F material. David Kinsey noted that the material should be posted and available in advance for F2F. Updates can still occur after initial upload.
       • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti -  21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
         • 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
2. Any Other Business (AoB)
   1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
   2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
   3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
   4. 2023-08-31: David Kinsey will not be available end of October. Jinri Huang to take care in the absence of David.
3.  Meeting Closure

2023 10 19

Recording 

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner):  Ultan Kelly (Viavi)
• Next scribe:  November 2023: 
  
• Previous scribe: September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Jinri Huang   seconded by John Paul Lane   motion approved unanimously.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. AP Review
5. 1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
      1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
            1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA Jinri Huang 
               1. 2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
               2. 2023-09-14: Jakub Novy David Kinsey mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
            2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
            3. Anything else?
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
            2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
            3. 2023-09-07: Irfan Ghauri shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: Jinri Huang to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by Irfan Ghauri 
            4. 2023-09-14: Irfan Ghauri provided an update on Committee Meeting.
               1. Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
               2. Made call for speakers and panels.
               3. Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
               4. David Kinsey Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
            5. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey highlighted the low participation from O-RAN SC in demo and keynote point of view. RIC, X-APP, AIML could be potential area. Irfan Ghauri said O-RAN SC participation will be accommodated. 
               1. John Keeney requested for clarification on OAI,OSFG & ORAN SC relationship. David Kinsey clarified that the objective is to support the common goal of O-RAN Proliferation and showcase of O-RAN Capabilities with reference design.
               2. John Keeney requested to get a clarification on the MoU. Irfan Ghauri mentioned that it is very generic and is between O-RAN Alliance & OAI, doesn't cover any licensing details. 
               3. John Keeney requested clarification on licensing terms. Irfan Ghauri clarified that each community will follow their respective community guidelines.
            6. 2023-10-12: Irfan Ghauri Agenda for November Joint OSC-OAI Workshop is finalizing. Some final touch are being applied.
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
            1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
            2. Work three things in parallel:
               1. demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
                  1. AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
                  2. EU
                  3. North America
               2. sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
                  
                  1. O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
                  2. Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
               3. Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
      2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October 17 to 19
         1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
         2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey Irfan Ghauri 
         3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
         4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized.  Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
         5. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out. 
         6. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey clarified that we have received 5 session (against the 7 requested) . Jinri Huang to invite all the O-RAN Alliance WGs for the sessions. David Kinsey will organize the schedule and update the F2F Event Page. 
         7. 2023-10-05: Registration is open and the agenda is being finalized and is still possible for more speakers to attend and space for demos, esp. interested in O-Cloud.
         8. 2023-10-12: Some agenda items still in motion. Moving Wednesday Session with MVP-C to Monday. Need to re-take slot which was released. Need time slot since some MVP AI/ML members will be remote in China. Demo slots still open. Will release session if no more demos identified.
   2. Others
6. Standing/old business
   1. OSC Lab
      1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey 
      2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
      3. 2023-10-05: Equipment is rack-and-stacked but not networked. David Kinsey Will have an update at the face-face meeting. Looking for an O-Cloud option.
      4. 2023-10-12: Supply Chain shortage, missing circuit breaker doesn't allow everything to be turned on. Missing chillers also means not too many things can be turned on due to temperature limits. No date when issue will be resolved.
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
      2. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
      3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting.  Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
      4. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
      5. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath 
      6. 2023-09-28 Rittwik Jana provided an offline update:
         • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
         • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
         • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
         • 2023-10-05: Nexus 3 Repo setup https://nexus3.o-ran-sc.org/repositories/datasets and once permissions are set Sridhar Rao to upload TIM data sets. Viavi data-sets still a WIP.
      7. 2023-10-05: No update but David Kinsey noted a three-week cycle for project updates and next one will after the face-face meeting.

   3. Project reports (by features)

      1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
      2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
      3. Project Reports

1. • • • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023: link-to-2023-09-28-report
       • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023 
         • Alex Stancu Could not be available. Provided the following status update:

           • To summarize what has happened:

             • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
             • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
             • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
       • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan  - 21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
         • 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
         • 2023-10-12: Shankar presented draft of F2F material. David Kinsey noted that the material should be posted and available in advance for F2F. Updates can still occur after initial upload.
       • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti -  21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
         • 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
2. Any Other Business (AoB)
   1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
   2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
   3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
   4. 2023-08-31: David Kinsey will not be available end of October. Jinri Huang to take care in the absence of David.
3.  Meeting Closure

2023 10 12

Recording 

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner):  Ultan Kelly (Viavi)
• Next scribe:  November 2023: 
  
• Previous scribe: September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Jinri Huang   seconded by John Paul Lane   motion approved unanimously.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16
      1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
      3. 2023-08-10: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop Irfan Ghauri
      4. 2023-08-17: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop: In the process of writing tentative agenda for sharing next week. Irfan Ghauri 
      5. 2023-08-24: 2023-FALL-JOINT-OSC-OAI-WORKSHOP-BOSTON Irfan Ghauri
   2.  TSC meeting 
      1. 2023-08-31: Next TSC presentation will be on next Friday (2023-09-08)
   3. Super "Simplified" Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
      1. Work three things in parallel:  demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions); roadmap; sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
   4. 2023-08-03: OAI proposal has been presented to the TSC, TSC said no money to fund it.
   5. 2023-08-10: ONF proposal Rittwik Jana 
   6. 2023-08-17: TSC approval for making following changes Sridhar Rao 
      1. Set a file size limit of 5m in all repos to prevent large files from being pushed. (This is the same size we allow in other communities)
      2. Cleanup the 2 repos (it/dep, pti/rtp), which requires a history rewrite to permanently remove large files. Reason: Failing GitHub replication
         1. ric-infra/10-Nexus/etc/conf.tar  (it/dep)
         2. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/cpu-manager-for-kubernetes/docker-img-cmk-v1.3.1.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
         3. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/multus-cni/docker-img-multus-v3.2.tar.bz2 (pti/rtp)
         4. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes/docker-img-kubernetes-v1.15.2.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
      3. **Both actions require a Gerrit downtime** 
      4. motion for cleaning up the 2 repos: approved unanimously.
      5. motion for setting the size limit of 5m: approved unanimously.
   7. 2023-08-24: ONF's new open RAN initiative Rittwik Jana 
   8. 2023-08-31: update on ONF proposal: energy saving use cases discussion, 3 data sets Rittwik Jana 
   9. 2023-08-31: ReadtheDocs has few deprecations coming up withch will affect the ORAN-SC reposMatthew Watkins; Thoralf Czichy put it on a wiki: Configure Repo for Documentation
   10. 2023-09-07: No new Agenda Items
   11. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey & Irfan Ghauri made a call for keynote speakers & demos to O-RAN SC members. Jackie Huang to comment on participation on the Panel Discussion on  Nephio & O-Cloud integration
   12. 2023-10-05: Timo Perala Noted Nephio on-site developer event week of October 9th with contribution from Tracy Van Brakle to inform members about OSC

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. 2023-07-27:  Track Maintenance Release
   2. 2023-07-27:  Release I & J planning
   3. 2023-08-03: SUNIL SINGH request for approval vote for a new xApp repo RICAPP project contributed & maintained by Alexandre Huff from UTFPR Univ. New xApp implements the E2SM-CCC service model. Motion proposed by David Kinsey , seconded by James Li , motion passed unanimously.
   4. 2023-08-03: Tack Maintenance Release: RICAPP SUNIL SINGH , ODULOW Ankit Barve , NONRTRIC John Keeney all on track, will close out next week.
   5. 2023-08-10: Approval of the Maintenance Release.
   6. 2023-09-07: None of the PTLs brought any items.
   7. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (aiml-fw/awmf/modelmgmtservice) by the AIMLFW PTL Joseph Thaliath 
      1. John Keeney seeked clarification on WG2 compliance and the same was provided by Joseph Thaliath 
      2. Joseph Thaliathconfirmed a demo can be made by mid of Nov timeframe
      3. Decision: The proposal was unanimously approved 
   8. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (ric-plt/conflictmgr) by the near-RT RIC PTL Thoralf Czichy 
      1. Gunjan Rastogi from CapGemini mentioned that demo is mid of Nov-23 is challenging. David Kinsey suggested a basic demo is a good start. 
      2. Decision : The proposal was unanimously approved 

   9. 2023-10-05: No Release Approvals required

5. AP Review
   1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
      1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
            1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA Jinri Huang 
               1. 2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
               2. 2023-09-14: Jakub Novy David Kinsey mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
            2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
            3. Anything else?
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
            2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
            3. 2023-09-07: Irfan Ghauri shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: Jinri Huang to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by Irfan Ghauri 
            4. 2023-09-14: Irfan Ghauri provided an update on Committee Meeting.
               1. Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
               2. Made call for speakers and panels.
               3. Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
               4. David Kinsey Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
            5. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey highlighted the low participation from O-RAN SC in demo and keynote point of view. RIC, X-APP, AIML could be potential area. Irfan Ghauri said O-RAN SC participation will be accommodated. 
               1. John Keeney requested for clarification on OAI,OSFG & ORAN SC relationship. David Kinsey clarified that the objective is to support the common goal of O-RAN Proliferation and showcase of O-RAN Capabilities with reference design.
               2. John Keeney requested to get a clarification on the MoU. Irfan Ghauri mentioned that it is very generic and is between O-RAN Alliance & OAI, doesn't cover any licensing details. 
               3. John Keeney requested clarification on licensing terms. Irfan Ghauri clarified that each community will follow their respective community guidelines.
            6. 2023-10-12: Irfan Ghauri Agenda for November Joint OSC-OAI Workshop is finalizing. Some fine touch are being applied.
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
            1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
            2. Work three things in parallel:
               1. demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
                  1. AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
                  2. EU
                  3. North America
               2. sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
                  
                  1. O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
                  2. Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
               3. Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
      2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October 17 to 19
         1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
         2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey Irfan Ghauri 
         3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
         4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized.  Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
         5. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out. 
         6. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey clarified that we have received 5 session (against the 7 requested) . Jinri Huang to invite all the O-RAN Alliance WGs for the sessions. David Kinsey will organize the schedule and update the F2F Event Page. 
         7. 2023-10-05: Registration is open and the agenda is being finalized and is still possible for more speakers to attend and space for demos, esp. interested in O-Cloud.
         8. 2023-10-12: Some agenda items still in motion. Moving Wednesday Session with MVP-C to Monday. Need to re-take slot which was released. Need time slot since some MVP AI/ML members will be remote in China. Demo slots still open. Will release session if no more demos identified.
   2. Others
6. Standing/old business
   1. OSC Lab
      1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey 
      2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
      3. 2023-10-05: Equipment is rack-and-stacked but not networked. David Kinsey Will have an update at the face-face meeting. Looking for an O-Cloud option.
      4. 2023-10-12: Supply Chain shortage, missing circuit breaker doesn't allow everything to be turned on. Missing chillers also means not too many things can be turned on due to temperature limits. No date when issue will be resolved.
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 2023-05-26 Issues on moderation/permission for comments on the wiki (see message from John Keeney )
         1. Matt Wilkins: the problem is acknowledged but due to the nature of the wiki, a solution to prevent unintended post/comments is not trivial.  Matt will keep on working on this and update the group.
      2. 2023-06-08 Sridhar Rao License scanning completed and report has been sent to all PTLs
         James Li Patch has been submitted for the AI raised under integration project
      3. 2023-06-15 All PTLs to update H release page and notify through email to get it review, if this gets done over the next week then we can call for the release vote on the 2023-06-29 TOC following the F2F.
      4. 2023-06-29 Integration, RICAPP, DOC, and O-DU Low PTLs to update the H release page.
         David Kinsey to send reminder  to above project PTLs to update the H release page and also to create I release page with project template.
         H release to be postponed on next TOC July 6th 
         Sridhar Rao created release checklist page, all PTLs expected to review and provide feedback if any.
         Jinri Huang to check regarding PR statement.
         
      5. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
      6. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
      7. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting.  Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
      8. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
      9. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath 
      10. 2023-09-28 Rittwik Jana provided an offline update:
          • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
          • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
          • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
          • 2023-10-05: Nexus 3 Repo setup https://nexus3.o-ran-sc.org/repositories/datasets and once permissions are set Sridhar Rao to upload TIM data sets. Viavi data-sets still a WIP.
      11. 2023-10-05: No update but David Kinsey noted a three-week cycle for project updates and next one will after the face-face meeting.

   3. Project reports (by features)

      1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
      2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
      3. Project Reports

1. • • • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023: link-to-2023-09-28-report
       • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023 
         • Alex Stancu Could not be available. Provided the following status update:

           • To summarize what has happened:

             • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
             • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
             • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
       • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan  - 21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
         • 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
         • 2023-10-12: Shankar presented draft of F2F material. David Kinsey noted that the material should be posted and available in advance for F2F. Updates can still occur after initial upload.
       • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti -  21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
         • 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
2. Any Other Business (AoB)
   1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
   2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
   3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
   4. 2023-08-31: David Kinsey will not be available end of October. Jinri Huang to take care in the absence of David.
3.  Meeting Closure

2023 10 05

Recording 

Meeting Recording: link

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner):  Ultan Kelly (Viavi)
• Next scribe:  November 2023: 
  
• Previous scribe: September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by James Li  seconded by Ultan Kelly     motion approved unanimously.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16
      1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
      3. 2023-08-10: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop Irfan Ghauri
      4. 2023-08-17: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop: In the process of writing tentative agenda for sharing next week. Irfan Ghauri 
      5. 2023-08-24: 2023-FALL-JOINT-OSC-OAI-WORKSHOP-BOSTON Irfan Ghauri
   2.  TSC meeting 
      1. 2023-08-31: Next TSC presentation will be on next Friday (2023-09-08)
   3. Super "Simplified" Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
      1. Work three things in parallel:  demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions); roadmap; sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
   4. 2023-08-03: OAI proposal has been presented to the TSC, TSC said no money to fund it.
   5. 2023-08-10: ONF proposal Rittwik Jana 
   6. 2023-08-17: TSC approval for making following changes Sridhar Rao 
      1. Set a file size limit of 5m in all repos to prevent large files from being pushed. (This is the same size we allow in other communities)
      2. Cleanup the 2 repos (it/dep, pti/rtp), which requires a history rewrite to permanently remove large files. Reason: Failing GitHub replication
         1. ric-infra/10-Nexus/etc/conf.tar  (it/dep)
         2. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/cpu-manager-for-kubernetes/docker-img-cmk-v1.3.1.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
         3. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/multus-cni/docker-img-multus-v3.2.tar.bz2 (pti/rtp)
         4. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes/docker-img-kubernetes-v1.15.2.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
      3. **Both actions require a Gerrit downtime** 
      4. motion for cleaning up the 2 repos: approved unanimously.
      5. motion for setting the size limit of 5m: approved unanimously.
   7. 2023-08-24: ONF's new open RAN initiative Rittwik Jana 
   8. 2023-08-31: update on ONF proposal: energy saving use cases discussion, 3 data sets Rittwik Jana 
   9. 2023-08-31: ReadtheDocs has few deprecations coming up withch will affect the ORAN-SC reposMatthew Watkins; Thoralf Czichy put it on a wiki: Configure Repo for Documentation
   10. 2023-09-07: No new Agenda Items
   11. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey & Irfan Ghauri made a call for keynote speakers & demos to O-RAN SC members. Jackie Huang to comment on participation on the Panel Discussion on  Nephio & O-Cloud integration
   12. 2023-10-05: Timo Perala Noted Nephio on-site developer event week of October 9th with contribution from Tracy Van Brakle to inform members about OSC

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. 2023-07-27:  Track Maintenance Release
   2. 2023-07-27:  Release I & J planning
   3. 2023-08-03: SUNIL SINGH request for approval vote for a new xApp repo RICAPP project contributed & maintained by Alexandre Huff from UTFPR Univ. New xApp implements the E2SM-CCC service model. Motion proposed by David Kinsey , seconded by James Li , motion passed unanimously.
   4. 2023-08-03: Tack Maintenance Release: RICAPP SUNIL SINGH , ODULOW Ankit Barve , NONRTRIC John Keeney all on track, will close out next week.
   5. 2023-08-10: Approval of the Maintenance Release.
   6. 2023-09-07: None of the PTLs brought any items.
   7. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (aiml-fw/awmf/modelmgmtservice) by the AIMLFW PTL Joseph Thaliath 
      1. John Keeney seeked clarification on WG2 compliance and the same was provided by Joseph Thaliath 
      2. Joseph Thaliathconfirmed a demo can be made by mid of Nov timeframe
      3. Decision: The proposal was unanimously approved 
   8. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (ric-plt/conflictmgr) by the near-RT RIC PTL Thoralf Czichy 
      1. Gunjan Rastogi from CapGemini mentioned that demo is mid of Nov-23 is challenging. David Kinsey suggested a basic demo is a good start. 
      2. Decision : The proposal was unanimously approved 

   9. 2023-10-05: No Release Approvals required

5. AP Review
   1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
      1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
            1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA Jinri Huang 
               1. 2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
               2. 2023-09-14: Jakub Novy David Kinsey mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
            2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
            3. Anything else?
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
            2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
            3. 2023-09-07: Irfan Ghauri shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: Jinri Huang to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by Irfan Ghauri 
            4. 2023-09-14: Irfan Ghauri provided an update on Committee Meeting.
               1. Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
               2. Made call for speakers and panels.
               3. Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
               4. David Kinsey Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
            5. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey highlighted the low participation from O-RAN SC in demo and keynote point of view. RIC, X-APP, AIML could be potential area. Irfan Ghauri said O-RAN SC participation will be accommodated. 
               1. John Keeney requested for clarification on OAI,OSFG & ORAN SC relationship. David Kinsey clarified that the objective is to support the common goal of O-RAN Proliferation and showcase of O-RAN Capabilities with reference design.
               2. John Keeney requested to get a clarification on the MoU. Irfan Ghauri mentioned that it is very generic and is between O-RAN Alliance & OAI, doesn't cover any licensing details. 
               3. John Keeney requested clarification on licensing terms. Irfan Ghauri clarified that each community will follow their respective community guidelines.
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
            1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
            2. Work three things in parallel:
               1. demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
                  1. AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
                  2. EU
                  3. North America
               2. sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
                  
                  1. O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
                  2. Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
               3. Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
      2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October 17 to 19
         1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
         2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey Irfan Ghauri 
         3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
         4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized.  Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
         5. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out. 
         6. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey clarified that we have received 5 session (against the 7 requested) . Jinri Huang to invite all the O-RAN Alliance WGs for the sessions. David Kinsey will organize the schedule and update the F2F Event Page. 
         7. 2023-10-05: Registration is open and the agenda is being finalized and is still possible for more speakers to attend and space for demos, esp. interested in O-Cloud.
   2. Others
6. Standing/old business
   1. OSC Lab
      1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey 
      2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
      3. 2023-10-05: Equipment is rack-and-stacked but not networked. David Kinsey Will have an update at the face-face meeting. Looking for an O-Cloud option.
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 2023-05-26 Issues on moderation/permission for comments on the wiki (see message from John Keeney )
         1. Matt Wilkins: the problem is acknowledged but due to the nature of the wiki, a solution to prevent unintended post/comments is not trivial.  Matt will keep on working on this and update the group.
      2. 2023-06-08 Sridhar Rao License scanning completed and report has been sent to all PTLs
         James Li Patch has been submitted for the AI raised under integration project
      3. 2023-06-15 All PTLs to update H release page and notify through email to get it review, if this gets done over the next week then we can call for the release vote on the 2023-06-29 TOC following the F2F.
      4. 2023-06-29 Integration, RICAPP, DOC, and O-DU Low PTLs to update the H release page.
         David Kinsey to send reminder  to above project PTLs to update the H release page and also to create I release page with project template.
         H release to be postponed on next TOC July 6th 
         Sridhar Rao created release checklist page, all PTLs expected to review and provide feedback if any.
         Jinri Huang to check regarding PR statement.
         
      5. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
      6. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
      7. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting.  Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
      8. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
      9. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath 
      10. 2023-09-28 Rittwik Jana provided an offline update:
          • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
          • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
          • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
          • 2023-10-05: Nexus 3 Repo setup https://nexus3.o-ran-sc.org/repositories/datasets and once permissions are set Sridhar Rao to upload TIM data sets. Viavi data-sets still a WIP.
      11. 2023-10-05: No update but David Kinsey noted a three-week cycle for project updates and next one will after the face-face meeting.

   3. Project reports (by features)

      1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
      2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
      3. Project Reports

1. • • • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023: link-to-2023-09-28-report
       • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023 
         • Alex Stancu Could not be available. Provided the following status update:

           • To summarize what has happened:

             • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
             • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
             • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
       • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan  - 21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
         • 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
       • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti -  21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
         • 2023-10-05: To be discussed next week
2. Any Other Business (AoB)
   1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
   2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
   3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
   4. 2023-08-31: David Kinsey will not be available end of October. Jinri Huang to take care in the absence of David.
3.  Meeting Closure

2023 09 28

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner): Avinash Bhat (Samsung)
• Next scribe:  October 2023: Ultan Kelly (Viavi)
  
• Previous scribe: September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by  Ankit Barve seconded by Ultan Kelly   motion approved unanimously.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
      1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
      3. 2023-08-10: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop Irfan Ghauri
      4. 2023-08-17: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop: In the process of writing tentative agenda for sharing next week. Irfan Ghauri 
      5. 2023-08-24: 2023-FALL-JOINT-OSC-OAI-WORKSHOP-BOSTON Irfan Ghauri
   2.  TSC meeting 
      1. 2023-08-31: Next TSC presentation will be on next Friday (2023-09-08)
   3. Super "Simplified" Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
      1. Work three things in parallel:  demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions); roadmap; sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
   4. 2023-08-03: OAI proposal has been presented to the TSC, TSC said no money to fund it.
   5. 2023-08-10: ONF proposal Rittwik Jana 
   6. 2023-08-17: TSC approval for making following changes Sridhar Rao 
      1. Set a file size limit of 5m in all repos to prevent large files from being pushed. (This is the same size we allow in other communities)
      2. Cleanup the 2 repos (it/dep, pti/rtp), which requires a history rewrite to permanently remove large files. Reason: Failing GitHub replication
         1. ric-infra/10-Nexus/etc/conf.tar  (it/dep)
         2. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/cpu-manager-for-kubernetes/docker-img-cmk-v1.3.1.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
         3. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/multus-cni/docker-img-multus-v3.2.tar.bz2 (pti/rtp)
         4. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes/docker-img-kubernetes-v1.15.2.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
      3. **Both actions require a Gerrit downtime** 
      4. motion for cleaning up the 2 repos: approved unanimously.
      5. motion for setting the size limit of 5m: approved unanimously.
   7. 2023-08-24: ONF's new open RAN initiative Rittwik Jana 
   8. 2023-08-31: update on ONF proposal: energy saving use cases discussion, 3 data sets Rittwik Jana 
   9. 2023-08-31: ReadtheDocs has few deprecations coming up withch will affect the ORAN-SC reposMatthew Watkins; Thoralf Czichy put it on a wiki: Configure Repo for Documentation
   10. 2023-09-07: No new Agenda Items
   11. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey & Irfan Ghauri made a call for keynote speakers & demos to O-RAN SC members. Jackie Huang to comment on participation on the Panel Discussion on  Nephio & O-Cloud integration

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. 2023-07-27:  Track Maintenance Release
   2. 2023-07-27:  Release I & J planning
   3. 2023-08-03: SUNIL SINGH request for approval vote for a new xApp repo RICAPP project contributed & maintained by Alexandre Huff from UTFPR Univ. New xApp implements the E2SM-CCC service model. Motion proposed by David Kinsey , seconded by James Li , motion passed unanimously.
   4. 2023-08-03: Tack Maintenance Release: RICAPP SUNIL SINGH , ODULOW Ankit Barve , NONRTRIC John Keeney all on track, will close out next week.
   5. 2023-08-10: Approval of the Maintenance Release.
   6. 2023-09-07: None of the PTLs brought any items.
   7. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (aiml-fw/awmf/modelmgmtservice) by the AIMLFW PTL Joseph Thaliath 
      1. John Keeney seeked clarification on WG2 compliance and the same was provided by Joseph Thaliath 
      2. Joseph Thaliathconfirmed a demo can be made by mid of Nov timeframe
      3. Decision: The proposal was unanimously approved 
   8. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (ric-plt/conflictmgr) by the near-RT RIC PTL Thoralf Czichy 
      1. Gunjan Rastogi from CapGemini mentioned that demo is mid of Nov-23 is challenging. David Kinsey suggested a basic demo is a good start. 
      2. Decision : The proposal was unanimously approved 
5. AP Review
   1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
      1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
            1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA Jinri Huang 
               1. 2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
               2. 2023-09-14: Jakub Novy David Kinsey mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
            2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
            3. Anything else?
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
            2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
            3. 2023-09-07: Irfan Ghauri shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: Jinri Huang to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by Irfan Ghauri 
            4. 2023-09-14: Irfan Ghauri provided an update on Committee Meeting.
               1. Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
               2. Made call for speakers and panels.
               3. Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
               4. David Kinsey Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
            5. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey highlighted the low participation from O-RAN SC in demo and keynote point of view. RIC, X-APP, AIML could be potential area. Irfan Ghauri said O-RAN SC participation will be accommodated. 
               1. John Keeney requested for clarification on OAI,OSFG & ORAN SC relationship. David Kinsey clarified that the objective is to support the common goal of O-RAN Proliferation and showcase of O-RAN Capabilities with reference design.
               2. John Keeney requested to get a clarification on the MoU. Irfan Ghauri mentioned that it is very generic and is between O-RAN Alliance & OAI, doesn't cover any licensing details. 
               3. John Keeney requested clarification on licensing terms. Irfan Ghauri clarified that each community will follow their respective community guidelines.
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
            1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
            2. Work three things in parallel:
               1. demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
                  1. AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
                  2. EU
                  3. North America
               2. sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
                  
                  1. O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
                  2. Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
               3. Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
      2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October 17 to 19
         1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
         2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey Irfan Ghauri 
         3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
         4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized.  Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
         5. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out. 
         6. 2023-09-28: David Kinsey clarified that we have received 5 session (against the 7 requested) . Jinri Huang to invite all the O-RAN Alliance WGs for the sessions. David Kinsey will organize the schedule and update the F2F Event Page. 
   2. Others
6. Standing/old business
   1. OSC Lab
      1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey 
      2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 2023-05-26 Issues on moderation/permission for comments on the wiki (see message from John Keeney )
         1. Matt Wilkins: the problem is acknowledged but due to the nature of the wiki, a solution to prevent unintended post/comments is not trivial.  Matt will keep on working on this and update the group.
      2. 2023-06-08 Sridhar Rao License scanning completed and report has been sent to all PTLs
         James Li Patch has been submitted for the AI raised under integration project
      3. 2023-06-15 All PTLs to update H release page and notify through email to get it review, if this gets done over the next week then we can call for the release vote on the 2023-06-29 TOC following the F2F.
      4. 2023-06-29 Integration, RICAPP, DOC, and O-DU Low PTLs to update the H release page.
         David Kinsey to send reminder  to above project PTLs to update the H release page and also to create I release page with project template.
         H release to be postponed on next TOC July 6th 
         Sridhar Rao created release checklist page, all PTLs expected to review and provide feedback if any.
         Jinri Huang to check regarding PR statement.
         
      5. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
      6. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
      7. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting.  Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
      8. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
      9. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath 
      10. 2023-09-28 Rittwik Jana provided an offline update:
          • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
          • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
          • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.

   3. Project reports (by features)

      1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
      2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
      3. Project Reports

1. • • • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023: link-to-2023-09-28-report
       • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023 
         • Alex Stancu Could not be available. Provided the following status update:

           • To summarize what has happened:

             • the TIM data set that would allow training of the AI/ML models is ready (it needed parsing). I will upload it to Nexus3 once we figure out how (LF is working on making Nexus3 host datasets - Sridhar will update once it is ready). Then, the AI/ML team will be able to play with that dataset.
             • Other dataset (synthetic) still to be produced by Viavi - maybe Rittwik has more information here
             • Discussions ongoing about the PM streaming (flow details here). Once we finalize the discussions there, implementation can start in the SIM and OAM projects.
       • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan  - 21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
       • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti -  21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
2. Any Other Business (AoB)
   1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
   2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
   3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
   4. 2023-08-31: David Kinsey will not be available end of October. Jinri Huang to take care in the absence of David.
3.  Meeting Closure

2023 09 21

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner): Avinash Bhat (Samsung)
• Next scribe:  October 2023:
  
• Previous scribe: September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Julien Boudani  seconded by  Ganesh Shenbagaraman  motion approved unanimously.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
      1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
      3. 2023-08-10: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop Irfan Ghauri
      4. 2023-08-17: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop: In the process of writing tentative agenda for sharing next week. Irfan Ghauri 
      5. 2023-08-24: 2023-FALL-JOINT-OSC-OAI-WORKSHOP-BOSTON Irfan Ghauri
   2.  TSC meeting 
      1. 2023-08-31: Next TSC presentation will be on next Friday (2023-09-08)
   3. Super "Simplified" Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
      1. Work three things in parallel:  demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions); roadmap; sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
   4. 2023-08-03: OAI proposal has been presented to the TSC, TSC said no money to fund it.
   5. 2023-08-10: ONF proposal Rittwik Jana 
   6. 2023-08-17: TSC approval for making following changes Sridhar Rao 
      1. Set a file size limit of 5m in all repos to prevent large files from being pushed. (This is the same size we allow in other communities)
      2. Cleanup the 2 repos (it/dep, pti/rtp), which requires a history rewrite to permanently remove large files. Reason: Failing GitHub replication
         1. ric-infra/10-Nexus/etc/conf.tar  (it/dep)
         2. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/cpu-manager-for-kubernetes/docker-img-cmk-v1.3.1.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
         3. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/multus-cni/docker-img-multus-v3.2.tar.bz2 (pti/rtp)
         4. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes/docker-img-kubernetes-v1.15.2.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
      3. **Both actions require a Gerrit downtime** 
      4. motion for cleaning up the 2 repos: approved unanimously.
      5. motion for setting the size limit of 5m: approved unanimously.
   7. 2023-08-24: ONF's new open RAN initiative Rittwik Jana 
   8. 2023-08-31: update on ONF proposal: energy saving use cases discussion, 3 data sets Rittwik Jana 
   9. 2023-08-31: ReadtheDocs has few deprecations coming up withch will affect the ORAN-SC reposMatthew Watkins; Thoralf Czichy put it on a wiki: Configure Repo for Documentation
   10. 2023-09-07: No new Agenda Items
   11. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey & Irfan Ghauri made a call for keynote speakers & demos to O-RAN SC members. Jackie Huang to comment on participation on the Panel Discussion on  Nephio & O-Cloud integration

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. 2023-07-27:  Track Maintenance Release
   2. 2023-07-27:  Release I & J planning
   3. 2023-08-03: SUNIL SINGH request for approval vote for a new xApp repo RICAPP project contributed & maintained by Alexandre Huff from UTFPR Univ. New xApp implements the E2SM-CCC service model. Motion proposed by David Kinsey , seconded by James Li , motion passed unanimously.
   4. 2023-08-03: Tack Maintenance Release: RICAPP SUNIL SINGH , ODULOW Ankit Barve , NONRTRIC John Keeney all on track, will close out next week.
   5. 2023-08-10: Approval of the Maintenance Release.
   6. 2023-09-07: None of the PTLs brought any items.
   7. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (aiml-fw/awmf/modelmgmtservice) by the AIMLFW PTL Joseph Thaliath 
      1. John Keeney seeked clarification on WG2 compliance and the same was provided by Joseph Thaliath 
      2. Joseph Thaliathconfirmed a demo can be made by mid of Nov timeframe
      3. Decision: The proposal was unanimously approved 
   8. 2023-09-21: New Repository Request - link - (ric-plt/conflictmgr) by the near-RT RIC PTL Thoralf Czichy 
      1. Gunjan Rastogi from CapGemini mentioned that demo is mid of Nov-23 is challenging. David Kinsey suggested a basic demo is a good start. 
      2. Decision : The proposal was unanimously approved 
5. AP Review
   1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
      1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
            1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA Jinri Huang 
               1. 2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
               2. 2023-09-14: Jakub Novy David Kinsey mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
            2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
            3. Anything else?
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
            2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
            3. 2023-09-07: Irfan Ghauri shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: Jinri Huang to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by Irfan Ghauri 
            4. 2023-09-14: Irfan Ghauri provided an update on Committee Meeting.
               1. Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
               2. Made call for speakers and panels.
               3. Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
               4. David Kinsey Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
            1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
            2. Work three things in parallel:
               1. demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
                  1. AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
                  2. EU
                  3. North America
               2. sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
                  
                  1. O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
                  2. Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
               3. Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
      2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October __ to __
         1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
         2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey Irfan Ghauri 
         3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
         4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized.  Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
         5. 2023-09-21: David Kinsey reminded everyone to take care of hotel accommodations in advance as it is sold out. 
   2. Others
6. Standing/old business
   1. OSC Lab
      1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey 
      2. 2023-09-21: No update on the move this week.
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 2023-05-26 Issues on moderation/permission for comments on the wiki (see message from John Keeney )
         1. Matt Wilkins: the problem is acknowledged but due to the nature of the wiki, a solution to prevent unintended post/comments is not trivial.  Matt will keep on working on this and update the group.
      2. 2023-06-08 Sridhar Rao License scanning completed and report has been sent to all PTLs
         James Li Patch has been submitted for the AI raised under integration project
      3. 2023-06-15 All PTLs to update H release page and notify through email to get it review, if this gets done over the next week then we can call for the release vote on the 2023-06-29 TOC following the F2F.
      4. 2023-06-29 Integration, RICAPP, DOC, and O-DU Low PTLs to update the H release page.
         David Kinsey to send reminder  to above project PTLs to update the H release page and also to create I release page with project template.
         H release to be postponed on next TOC July 6th 
         Sridhar Rao created release checklist page, all PTLs expected to review and provide feedback if any.
         Jinri Huang to check regarding PR statement.
         
      5. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
      6. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
      7. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting.  Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
      8. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)
      9. 2023-09-21: Rittwik Jana confirmed on behalf of Ultan Kelly about the new dataset availability. (The old dataset cannot be make available). Next step would be to discuss with Joseph Thaliath 

   3. Project reports (by features)

      1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
      2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
      3. Project Reports

1. • • • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan  - 21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Shankar is unavailable, to be planned in 3 weeks.
       • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti -  21 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-21: Seshu was unavailable
       • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023
       • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023 
2. Any Other Business (AoB)
   1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
   2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
   3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
3.  Meeting Closure

2023 09 14

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner): Avinash Bhat (Samsung)
• Next scribe:  October 2023:
  
• Previous scribe: September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Julien Boudani  seconded by John Paul Lane   motion approved unanimously.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
      1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
      3. 2023-08-10: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop Irfan Ghauri
      4. 2023-08-17: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop: In the process of writing tentative agenda for sharing next week. Irfan Ghauri 
      5. 2023-08-24: 2023-FALL-JOINT-OSC-OAI-WORKSHOP-BOSTON Irfan Ghauri
   2.  TSC meeting 
      1. 2023-08-31: Next TSC presentation will be on next Friday (2023-09-08)
   3. Super "Simplified" Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
      1. Work three things in parallel:  demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions); roadmap; sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
   4. 2023-08-03: OAI proposal has been presented to the TSC, TSC said no money to fund it.
   5. 2023-08-10: ONF proposal Rittwik Jana 
   6. 2023-08-17: TSC approval for making following changes Sridhar Rao 
      1. Set a file size limit of 5m in all repos to prevent large files from being pushed. (This is the same size we allow in other communities)
      2. Cleanup the 2 repos (it/dep, pti/rtp), which requires a history rewrite to permanently remove large files. Reason: Failing GitHub replication
         1. ric-infra/10-Nexus/etc/conf.tar  (it/dep)
         2. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/cpu-manager-for-kubernetes/docker-img-cmk-v1.3.1.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
         3. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/multus-cni/docker-img-multus-v3.2.tar.bz2 (pti/rtp)
         4. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes/docker-img-kubernetes-v1.15.2.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
      3. **Both actions require a Gerrit downtime** 
      4. motion for cleaning up the 2 repos: approved unanimously.
      5. motion for setting the size limit of 5m: approved unanimously.
   7. 2023-08-24: ONF's new open RAN initiative Rittwik Jana 
   8. 2023-08-31: update on ONF proposal: energy saving use cases discussion, 3 data sets Rittwik Jana 
   9. 2023-08-31: ReadtheDocs has few deprecations coming up withch will affect the ORAN-SC reposMatthew Watkins; Thoralf Czichy put it on a wiki: Configure Repo for Documentation
   10. 2023-09-07: No new Agenda Items

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. 2023-07-27:  Track Maintenance Release
   2. 2023-07-27:  Release I & J planning
   3. 2023-08-03: SUNIL SINGH request for approval vote for a new xApp repo RICAPP project contributed & maintained by Alexandre Huff from UTFPR Univ. New xApp implements the E2SM-CCC service model. Motion proposed by David Kinsey , seconded by James Li , motion passed unanimously.
   4. 2023-08-03: Tack Maintenance Release: RICAPP SUNIL SINGH , ODULOW Ankit Barve , NONRTRIC John Keeney all on track, will close out next week.
   5. 2023-08-10: Approval of the Maintenance Release.
   6. 2023-09-07: None of the PTLs brought any items.
5. AP Review
   1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
      1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
            1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA Jinri Huang 
               1. 2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
               2. 2023-09-14: Jakub Novy David Kinsey mentioned it was more of an introductory meeting (setting our position) . Next meeting is scheduled on 21 Sep 2023 post the ToC Meeting
            2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
            3. Anything else?
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
            2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
            3. 2023-09-07: Irfan Ghauri shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: Jinri Huang to send invite on O-RAN SC and relevant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by Irfan Ghauri 
            4. 2023-09-14: Irfan Ghauri provided an update on Committee Meeting.
               1. Plan is to follow a workshop mode, 3 sessions (RAN, OAM and Lab Status) and demo.
               2. Made call for speakers and panels.
               3. Provide OAI ~Nephio and proposed a joint discussion on the topic.
               4. David Kinsey Proposed to showcase some O-RAN SC F2F demos at the event.
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
            1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
            2. Work three things in parallel:
               1. demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
                  1. AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
                  2. EU
                  3. North America
               2. sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
                  
                  1. O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
                  2. Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
               3. Whitepaper (2023-09-14: It was clarified to be a whitepaper)
      2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October __ to __
         1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
         2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey Irfan Ghauri 
         3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
         4. 2023-09-14: David Kinsey mentioned that we should have at least 5 sessions for the planned items (Refer Link). The schedule is yet to be finalized.  Details to be updated so that event can be planned better.
   2. Others
6. Standing/old business
   1. OSC Lab
      1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey 
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 2023-05-26 Issues on moderation/permission for comments on the wiki (see message from John Keeney )
         1. Matt Wilkins: the problem is acknowledged but due to the nature of the wiki, a solution to prevent unintended post/comments is not trivial.  Matt will keep on working on this and update the group.
      2. 2023-06-08 Sridhar Rao License scanning completed and report has been sent to all PTLs
         James Li Patch has been submitted for the AI raised under integration project
      3. 2023-06-15 All PTLs to update H release page and notify through email to get it review, if this gets done over the next week then we can call for the release vote on the 2023-06-29 TOC following the F2F.
      4. 2023-06-29 Integration, RICAPP, DOC, and O-DU Low PTLs to update the H release page.
         David Kinsey to send reminder  to above project PTLs to update the H release page and also to create I release page with project template.
         H release to be postponed on next TOC July 6th 
         Sridhar Rao created release checklist page, all PTLs expected to review and provide feedback if any.
         Jinri Huang to check regarding PR statement.
         
      5. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML modeling; SMO discussion.
      6. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
      7. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting.  Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.
      8. 2023-09-14: Rittwik Jana updated that there are 2 datasets Alex is working on one dataset and Viavi is working on the other. Ritwik to follow up with Ultan (Viavi)

   3. Project reports (by features)

      1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
      2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
      3. Project Reports

1. • • • End-to-End Call - Pairwise Testing James Li - Next 14 Sep 2023 
         • 2023-09-14: James Li provided update on Pairwise Testing . Refer to <Status Report>
       • Lab Updates - James Li - Next 14 Sep 2023
         • 2023-09-14: James Li provided update on Lab . Refer to <Status Report>
       • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan  - Next 
       • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti - Next 21 Sep 2023
       • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023
       • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023 
2. Any Other Business (AoB)
   1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
   2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
   3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
3.  Meeting Closure

2023 09 07

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Link

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner): Avinash Bhat (Samsung)
• Next scribe:  October 2023:
  
• Previous scribe: September: Samsung; August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Julien Boudani seconded by Jinri Huang  motion approved unanimously.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
      1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
      3. 2023-08-10: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop Irfan Ghauri
      4. 2023-08-17: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop: In the process of writing tentative agenda for sharing next week. Irfan Ghauri 
      5. 2023-08-24: 2023-FALL-JOINT-OSC-OAI-WORKSHOP-BOSTON Irfan Ghauri
   2. All set for TSC meeting Friday, July 28?
      1. 2023-08-31: Next TSC presentation will be on next Friday (2023-09-08)
   3. Super "Simplified" Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
      1. Work three things in parallel:  demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions); roadmap; sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
   4. 2023-08-03: OAI proposal has been presented to the TSC, TSC said no money to fund it.
   5. 2023-08-10: ONF proposal Rittwik Jana 
   6. 2023-08-17: TSC approval for making following changes Sridhar Rao 
      1. Set a file size limit of 5m in all repos to prevent large files from being pushed. (This is the same size we allow in other communities)
      2. Cleanup the 2 repos (it/dep, pti/rtp), which requires a history rewrite to permanently remove large files. Reason: Failing GitHub replication
         1. ric-infra/10-Nexus/etc/conf.tar  (it/dep)
         2. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/cpu-manager-for-kubernetes/docker-img-cmk-v1.3.1.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
         3. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/multus-cni/docker-img-multus-v3.2.tar.bz2 (pti/rtp)
         4. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes/docker-img-kubernetes-v1.15.2.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
      3. **Both actions require a Gerrit downtime** 
      4. motion for cleaning up the 2 repos: approved unanimously.
      5. motion for setting the size limit of 5m: approved unanimously.
   7. 2023-08-24: ONF's new open RAN initiative Rittwik Jana 
   8. 2023-08-31: update on ONF proposal: energy saving use cases discussion, 3 data sets Rittwik Jana 
   9. 2023-08-31: ReadtheDocs has few deprecations coming up withch will affect the ORAN-SC reposMatthew Watkins; Thoralf Czichy put it on a wiki: Configure Repo for Documentation
   10. 2023-09-07: No new Agenda Items

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. 2023-07-27:  Track Maintenance Release
   2. 2023-07-27:  Release I & J planning
   3. 2023-08-03: SUNIL SINGH request for approval vote for a new xApp repo RICAPP project contributed & maintained by Alexandre Huff from UTFPR Univ. New xApp implements the E2SM-CCC service model. Motion proposed by David Kinsey , seconded by James Li , motion passed unanimously.
   4. 2023-08-03: Tack Maintenance Release: RICAPP SUNIL SINGH , ODULOW Ankit Barve , NONRTRIC John Keeney all on track, will close out next week.
   5. 2023-08-10: Approval of the Maintenance Release.
   6. 2023-09-07: None of the PTLs brought up any items.
5. AP Review
   1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
      1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
            1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA Jinri Huang 
               1. 2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
            2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
            3. Anything else?
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
            2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
            3. 2023-09-07: Irfan Ghauri shared the updates on the event details. This is an "in person only" event, refer to Link for detailed Agenda. Action: Jinri Huang to send invite on O-RAN SC and relavant folks in O-RAN Alliance based on the format to be shared by Irfan Ghauri 
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
            1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
            2. Work three things in parallel:
               1. demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
                  1. AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
                  2. EU
                  3. North America
               2. sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
                  
                  1. O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
                  2. Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
               3. roadmap (White Paper?  Info Report)
      2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October __ to __
         1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
         2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey Irfan Ghauri 
         3. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call for sessions and requested members to update them directly in the event page. Refer Link for updates. AIML, SMO de-compositions within O-Cloud & Energy Saving sessions were discussed and added to the list. Proposal is to have 6 slots. David Kinsey proposed to cancel the ToC Call during the event week.
   2. Others
6. Standing/old business
   1. OSC Lab
      1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey 
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 2023-05-26 Issues on moderation/permission for comments on the wiki (see message from John Keeney )
         1. Matt Wilkins: the problem is acknowledged but due to the nature of the wiki, a solution to prevent unintended post/comments is not trivial.  Matt will keep on working on this and update the group.
      2. 2023-06-08 Sridhar Rao License scanning completed and report has been sent to all PTLs
         James Li Patch has been submitted for the AI raised under integration project
      3. 2023-06-15 All PTLs to update H release page and notify through email to get it review, if this gets done over the next week then we can call for the release vote on the 2023-06-29 TOC following the F2F.
      4. 2023-06-29 Integration, RICAPP, DOC, and O-DU Low PTLs to update the H release page.
         David Kinsey to send reminder  to above project PTLs to update the H release page and also to create I release page with project template.
         H release to be postponed on next TOC July 6th 
         Sridhar Rao created release checklist page, all PTLs expected to review and provide feedback if any.
         Jinri Huang to check regarding PR statement.
         
      5. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML moddeling; SMO discussion.
      6. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.
      7. 2023-09-07: David Kinsey made a call to PTL to update the I Release plan. PTLs to complete this before the F2F Meeting.  Rittwik Jana provided updates on the data set.

   3. Project reports (by features)

      1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
      2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
      3. Project Reports

1. • 1. • End-to-End Call - Pairwise Testing James Li - Next 14 Sep 2023 
        • Lab Updates - James Li - Next 14 Sep 2023
        • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan  - Next 21 Sep 2023
        • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti - Next 21 Sep 2023
        • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023
        • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023 
2. Any Other Business (AoB)
   1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
   2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
   3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
3.  Meeting Closure

2023 08 31

Recording 

Meeting Recording: Link 

Agenda

• Call for scribe (minutes owner): Jackie Huang (Wind River)
• Next scribe:  September 2023: Avinash Bhat (Samsung)
  
• Previous scribe: August: Wind River; July: AT&T; June: Radisys, May: TIM, April: CMCC, March: Nokia, Feb: NTT, January-2023: Ericsson, December-2022: Viavi, November: DT, October: Orange, September: Wind River, August: China Mobile, July: Samsung, June: Radisys
• Roll Call & Quorum Check 

*Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  

1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes approval for last TOC meeting: Motion proposed by Jackie Huang , seconded by Ganesh Shenbagaraman , motion approved unanimously.
   2. Jackie Huang The links for 07/27, 07/20, 07/13 and 07/06 are not correct, they are linked to the same recording as 06/29. Fixed by David Kinsey
   3. Sridhar Rao Storage capacity is 10Gig, so approximately 50+ meetings' recording can be stored.
2. Review of Today's Agenda
3. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
      1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
      2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
      3. 2023-08-10: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop Irfan Ghauri
      4. 2023-08-17: Joint OSC-OAI Workshop: In the process of writing tentative agenda for sharing next week. Irfan Ghauri 
      5. 2023-08-24: 2023-FALL-JOINT-OSC-OAI-WORKSHOP-BOSTON Irfan Ghauri
   2. All set for TSC meeting Friday, July 28?
      1. 2023-08-31: Next TSC presentation will be on next Friday (2023-09-08)
   3. Super "Simplified" Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
      1. Work three things in parallel:  demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions); roadmap; sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
   4. 2023-08-03: OAI proposal has been presented to the TSC, TSC said no money to fund it.
   5. 2023-08-10: ONF proposal Rittwik Jana 
   6. 2023-08-17: TSC approval for making following changes Sridhar Rao 
      1. Set a file size limit of 5m in all repos to prevent large files from being pushed. (This is the same size we allow in other communities)
      2. Cleanup the 2 repos (it/dep, pti/rtp), which requires a history rewrite to permanently remove large files. Reason: Failing GitHub replication
         1. ric-infra/10-Nexus/etc/conf.tar  (it/dep)
         2. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/cpu-manager-for-kubernetes/docker-img-cmk-v1.3.1.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
         3. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes-plugins/multus-cni/docker-img-multus-v3.2.tar.bz2 (pti/rtp)
         4. meta-oran/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes/docker-img-kubernetes-v1.15.2.tar.bz (pti/rtp)
      3. **Both actions require a Gerrit downtime** 
      4. motion for cleaning up the 2 repos: approved unanimously.
      5. motion for setting the size limit of 5m: approved unanimously.
   7. 2023-08-24: ONF's new open RAN initiative Rittwik Jana 
   8. 2023-08-31: update on ONF proposal: energy saving use cases discussion, 3 data sets Rittwik Jana 
   9. 2023-08-31: ReadtheDocs has few deprecations coming up withch will affect the ORAN-SC reposMatthew Watkins; Thoralf Czichy put it on a wiki: Configure Repo for Documentation

4. Release Votes (checklist) and Approval

   1. 2023-07-27:  Track Maintenance Release
   2. 2023-07-27:  Release I & J planning
   3. 2023-08-03: SUNIL SINGH request for approval vote for a new xApp repo RICAPP project contributed & maintained by Alexandre Huff from UTFPR Univ. New xApp implements the E2SM-CCC service model. Motion proposed by David Kinsey , seconded by James Li , motion passed unanimously.
   4. 2023-08-03: Tack Maintenance Release: RICAPP SUNIL SINGH , ODULOW Ankit Barve , NONRTRIC John Keeney all on track, will close out next week.
   5. 2023-08-10: Approval of the Maintenance Release.
5. AP Review
   1. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.) 
      1. OSFG discussions  Jinri Huang 
         1. O-RAN SCCL enforcement
            1. Publishing O-RAN code-like segments under SCCL CLA Jinri Huang 
               1. 2023-05-18: waiting for a feedback from O-RAN Office
            2. Naming and directory structure has been agreed upon and next step will be to get it approve.
            3. Anything else?
         2. Collaboration with OAI (lab interconnection) James Li user-59b16 
            1. 2023-06-29: Jinri Huang Discussion with OAI went well, OSC expressed willingness for collaboration which was supported by OAI. For implementation, OAI is to provide a repository mail so that OSC can leverage it once legal conditions are met.
            2. Review "OSC – OAI Collaboration Proposal" Irfan Ghauri Robert Schmidt 
         3. OSFG - OSC/OAI integration in furtherance of Super Wireless RAN blueprint Tracy Van Brakle 
            1. Link to O-RAN OSFG meeting minutes 7/21
            2. Work three things in parallel:
               1. demonstrations within university labs (multiple regions) - concurrent with O-RAN Fall 2023 PoC/Plugfest (readout week of November 26)
                  1. AsiaPac - Taiwan and other locations
                  2. EU
                  3. North America
               2. sources of funding to assure sustain-ability
                  
                  1. O-RAN nGRG - application due August __, 2023
                  2. Public Sector - NSF? NTIA?
               3. roadmap (White Paper?  Info Report)
      2. O-RAN next phase - prepare for upcoming F2F in Phoenix AZ, USA, October __ to __
         1. 2023-08-03: Next F2F registration is now opened. Rittwik Jana mentioned ONF reached out for the energy saving topics. Martin Skorupski put it on the agenda of OSFG meeting to talk about energy savings and the collaboration with ONF.
         2. 2023-08-17: Discussed about Demos, the type of env screens needed. David Kinsey Irfan Ghauri 
   2. Others
6. Standing/old business
   1. OSC Lab
      1. 2023-08-17: Our Bedminster Lab is in the process of move David Kinsey 
   2. Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling Sridhar Rao 
      1. 2023-05-26 Issues on moderation/permission for comments on the wiki (see message from John Keeney )
         1. Matt Wilkins: the problem is acknowledged but due to the nature of the wiki, a solution to prevent unintended post/comments is not trivial.  Matt will keep on working on this and update the group.
      2. 2023-06-08 Sridhar Rao License scanning completed and report has been sent to all PTLs
         James Li Patch has been submitted for the AI raised under integration project
      3. 2023-06-15 All PTLs to update H release page and notify through email to get it review, if this gets done over the next week then we can call for the release vote on the 2023-06-29 TOC following the F2F.
      4. 2023-06-29 Integration, RICAPP, DOC, and O-DU Low PTLs to update the H release page.
         David Kinsey to send reminder  to above project PTLs to update the H release page and also to create I release page with project template.
         H release to be postponed on next TOC July 6th 
         Sridhar Rao created release checklist page, all PTLs expected to review and provide feedback if any.
         Jinri Huang to check regarding PR statement.
         
      5. 2023-08-03: Rittwik Jana Focus on energy savings; Figure out a plan of execution to get the metrics; ML moddeling; SMO discussion.
      6. 2023-08-31: Seshu Kumar Mudiganti David Kinsey Stretch to get the O-Cloud energy savings using policies into the I or J release. Jackie Huang need to check if it's doable.

   3. Project reports (by features)

      1. 2023-08-03: Project reports in groups will be strike out, and it will be done by features, which will need to be restructured.
      2. 2023-08-17: Features grouped as in RSAC.
      3. Project Reports

1. • 1. • End-to-End Call - Pairwise Testing James Li - Next 14 Sep 2023 
        • Lab Updates - James Li - Next 14 Sep 2023
        • Disaggregated SMO Flows - N.K. Shankaranarayanan  - Next 21 Sep 2023
        • Onboarding and Orchestration - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti - Next 21 Sep 2023
        • RIC Platform Enhancements - Thoralf Czichy - Next 28 Sep 2023
        • Energy Savings - Alex Stancu - Next 28 Sep 2023 
2. Any Other Business (AoB)
   1. 2023-08-03: NTT DOCOMO voting member changed: Masafumi Masuda → Masahiro Fujii; Anil Umesh → Minami Ishii
   2. 2023-08-03: Action: to create I release page. David Kinsey mentioned DOC project not listed in H release, and we need to do Release Checklist
   3. 2023-08-31: Done created page for I Release.
3.  Meeting Closure