Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

2022

11 03

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): William DIEGO  Jakub Novy

2. 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 for TOC meeting (2022-10-1327) approval: Motion to be proposed by William DIEGO   second by   and by  and the Motion was Accepted.
2. Review of Today's Agenda.

3. Release Votes and Approval

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-10-06: John Paul Lane request revised Technical Charter and CCLA before to be submitted to the validation by the board. 
      2. 2022-10-13:  Jinri Huang request from Hank: how many codes under O-RAN software license? How many code of that have being donwloaded from our website? how many os those code have being integrated in our main gerrit? Thoralf Czichy can check it from our gerrit. There are currently 4 projects coming up, and none of them are active (no contribution, or the contribuition was probably replaced by another). Action Sridhar Rao will provide a report to Jinri https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/admin/repos/q/filter:scp (number of repos, description, how many times was downloaded, etc.). Action Martin Skorupski: will provide a description of yang model repo to Jinri.
      3. 2022-10-20: Jack - there are meetings ongoing with the legal team in meeting, they are trying to work out some details on the charter, an e-mail vote will be set up.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang the charter is the main issue, there are 2 options: (1) to have 2 license O-RAN and SCCL depending on the project or (2) to have only one license for all the projects (the future ones). It does not impact the Apache v2.0 in the OSC.
      5. 2022-10-27: Jinri Huang one slide on the topic was presented at the board meeting, Jinri will continue follwing this topic. 
      6. 2022-10-27: Martin Skorupski https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/812 → Licensing Headers. Jinri will update on that as soon as legal aspect will clarified.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)Plugfest

   2. 1. 2022-1007-0621 :  user-59b16 demos (videos 5min/10min) are in preparation, H release planning discussion (RSAC Meetings). An agenda proposal was sent by Jinri. Organization is ongoing.O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
      3. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang : CFH is closed, with about 80 participants.
      4. 2022-10-27: Jinri Huang the process is ongoing. summary session will be held at the end of Nov.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
      1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   4. Budget:
      1. 2022-10-06: Jack  - budget plan will be reviewed during the next board meeting. OSC stayed under the budget, it covers cost relative to the repos, support for the community. OSC founds 100% of the community fees.
      2. 2022-10-13: Sridhar Rao: two types of scanning: (1) license scanning of release code, twice a year, and (2) dependecy scanning (nexus). There is an increase in the license scanning part by ~30%, there is a discussion on going with team with is responsable. Action Sridhra: will provide a short presentation on the existing years budgets where the major line items spends. Two options: (1) accept the increase, (2) look for a new provider (and (3) cut budget from somewhere else).
      3. 2022-10-20: Sridhar Rao  he is finalising the slides, it should be ready for next week. The previus AP should be adress next meeting.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang some budget alocation from EC could be possible, some contributors are planning to buy some equipments in particular vendor members, you will be contacted.
      5. 2022-10-27: Jinri Huang OSC budget was validated by the board, Junri is working with James and David to the allocation. 
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-10-06: Jack - New Jersey OSC lab will experiment a small window of the disruption mid next year (one week at the most).
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
      2. 2022-09-29: Brandon Wick  : will discuss offline with David Kinsey  to brainstorm ideas.
      3. 2022-10-06:  David Kinsey meeting with people from the 5G super blueprint organization, the slice SLA has been identified as a use case of interest, so we will work on that (H release). Connection from OSC lab to their lab is expected as part of H release.
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-22 Sridhar Rao will setup a meeting for interacting for PTLs and LF teams.
      2. 2022-10-20: Sridhar Rao have being working with James on the use of xTesting, and also updating wiki page with the use of xtesting.
      3. 2022-10-20:  Avinash Bhat AI/ML project is doing well afetr some issues with the creation of repos,the seed cide is completely committed, they have a basic version of the C code available, they will presnet a demo during F2F meeting.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jack - the scan of new code has to be planned in advance in order to avoir last minute issues. Sridhar Rao is planning to scan all the current release in the midle of the release schedule. Jack - November the 10th should be a good Time. AP Sridhar Rao launch a code scan on November 10th.
      5. 2022-10-27: Avinash Bhat AI/ML project has been started in the group, work is ongoing and cross-project coordination is also ongoing, a presentation on topic can be expected by December.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-09-22: user-59b16 : rounding up demos for f2f event (links are posted to wiki), intend to gather representers from almost all project and provide summary of lab status during f2f.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      14. Avinash Bhat AI/ML framework
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

10.  Planning for Next Meeting 

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2022 10 27

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

https://zoom.us/rec/share/aH7rNBuwUWwZYayIVXpVbFTH2xgchxHRd5CpdBB72R1kHZebvVV7wGUhM6PO6zq9.PRzzty7z8JNVaqWF

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): William DIEGO

2. 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 for TOC meeting (2022-10-20) approval: Motion to be proposed by Jinri Huang  second by John Paul Lane  and the Motion was Accepted.
2. Review of Today's Agenda.
   1. Jack is retiring from AT&T over the course of November, David Kinsey will take over. 

3. Release Votes and Approval

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-10-06: John Paul Lane request revised Technical Charter and CCLA before to be submitted to the validation by the board. 
      2. 2022-10-13:  Jinri Huang request from Hank: how many codes under O-RAN software license? How many code of that have being donwloaded from our website? how many os those code have being integrated in our main gerrit? Thoralf Czichy can check it from our gerrit. There are currently 4 projects coming up, and none of them are active (no contribution, or the contribuition was probably replaced by another). Action Sridhar Rao will provide a report to Jinri https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/admin/repos/q/filter:scp (number of repos, description, how many times was downloaded, etc.). Action Martin Skorupski: will provide a description of yang model repo to Jinri.
      3. 2022-10-20: Jack - there are meetings ongoing with the legal team in meeting, they are trying to work out some details on the charter, an e-mail vote will be set up.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang the charter is the main issue, there are 2 options: (1) to have 2 license O-RAN and SCCL depending on the project or (2) to have only one license for all the projects (the future ones). It does not impact the Apache v2.0 in the OSC.
      5. 2022-10-27: Jinri Huang one slide on the topic was presented at the board meeting, Jinri will continue follwing this topic. 
      6. 2022-10-27: Martin Skorupski https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/812 → Licensing Headers. Jinri will update on that as soon as legal aspect will clarified.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)

      1. 2022-10-06: user-59b16 demos (videos 5min/10min) are in preparation, H release planning discussion (RSAC Meetings). An agenda proposal was sent by Jinri. Organization is ongoing.
      2. 2022-2022-10-13:  Jinri Huang OSC session on October 20, link to the registration will be sharing (the agenda and other details will be also shared) → https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OAH/pages/2517565622/Agenda+of+the+F2F+meeting+October+17-21+2022+Madrid 
      3. 2022-10-13: user-59b16 list of demos already available (https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/download/attachments/3604609/OSC_F2F_Oct20_2022.pptx?api=v2) plase complet if needed. 10/15 min per project is expected.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang F2F meeting, Junri has sent an e-mail with a webex link. Jinri has also updated the agenda adn included a link for the demo materials.a link for the demo materials.
      5. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang 15 min will be allocated for G release discussion.
      6. 2022-10-27: Jinri Huang Quite good feedback from OSC F2F meeting, at least 50 peaople participating (on site + online). The link/colaboration betwen OSC PG and O-RAN WG is not visible. Jinri suggest one table to map OSC PGs and O-RAN WGs.
      7. 2022-10-27: Jakub Novy Regarding demos, it was probably a bit difficult for people spend efford on looking all this demos that were quite technical. Some improvements could be done adding some introductions and narrative, maybe the O-RAN office could help on that2022-10-20: Jinri Huang 15 min will be allocated for G release discussion.
   2. Plugfest
      
      1. 2022-07-21 : O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
      3. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang : CFH is closed, with about 80 participants.
      4. 2022-10-27: Jinri Huang the process is ongoing. summary session will be held at the end of Nov.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
      1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   4. Budget:
      1. 2022-10-06: Jack  - budget plan will be reviewed during the next board meeting. OSC stayed under the budget, it covers cost relative to the repos, support for the community. OSC founds 100% of the community fees.
      2. 2022-10-13: Sridhar Rao: two types of scanning: (1) license scanning of release code, twice a year, and (2) dependecy scanning (nexus). There is an increase in the license scanning part by ~30%, there is a discussion on going with team with is responsable. Action Sridhra: will provide a short presentation on the existing years budgets where the major line items spends. Two options: (1) accept the increase, (2) look for a new provider (and (3) cut budget from somewhere else).
      3. 2022-10-20: Sridhar Rao  he is finalising the slides, it should be ready for next week. The previus AP should be adress next meeting.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang some budget alocation from EC could be possible, some contributors are planning to buy some equipments in particular vendor members, you will be contacted.
      5. 2022-10-27: Jinri Huang OSC budget was validated by the board, Junri is working with James and David to the allocation. 
   5. Fyuz event :
      1. 2022-10-06:  David KinseyFyuz event organization. There is a template presentation for the event, contributions will put together in a drive. The event will take place on the first day (25 Oct on evening breakout) at 16h30 CET.
      2. 2022-10-06: Jinri Huangfyuz event: lack of some informations from speakers (e.g. photos, mail adress), Later on Jinri will loop all the speakers.
      3. 2022-10-13: Jinri, We are waiting for further information from the organisers.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang all the information is complet. you can check the agenda - https://www.fyuz.events/EN/pages/Agenda
      5. 2022-10-27: Jinri Huang 7 presentation during the event.
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-10-06: Jack - New Jersey OSC lab will experiment a small window of the disruption mid next year (one week at the most).
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
      2. 2022-09-29: Brandon Wick  : will discuss offline with David Kinsey  to brainstorm ideas.
      3. 2022-10-06:  David Kinsey meeting with people from the 5G super blueprint organization, the slice SLA has been identified as a use case of interest, so we will work on that (H release). Connection from OSC lab to their lab is expected as part of H release.
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-22 Sridhar Rao will setup a meeting for interacting for PTLs and LF teams.
      2. 2022-10-20: Sridhar Rao have being working with James on the use of xTesting, and also updating wiki page with the use of xtesting.
      3. 2022-10-20:  Avinash Bhat AL AI/ML project is doing well afetr some issues with the creation of repos,the seed cide is completely committed, they have a basic version of the C code available, they will presnet a demo during F2F meeting.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jack - the scan of new code has to be planned in advance in order to avoir last minute issues. Sridhar Rao is planning to scan all the current release in the midle of the release schedule. Jack - November the 10th should be a good Time. AP Sridhar Rao launch a code scan on November 10th.
      5. 2022-10-27: Avinash Bhat AI/ML project has been started in the group, work is ongoing and cross-project coordination is also ongoing, a presentation on topic can be expected by December.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-09-22: user-59b16 : rounding up demos for f2f event (links are posted to wiki), intend to gather representers from almost all project and provide summary of lab status during f2f.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      14. Avinash Bhat AL AI/ML framework
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

10.  Planning for Next Meeting 

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2022 10 20

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

https://zoom.us/rec/share/tLBa8JhVYy3-rAm_gvhTz5wW1IdPuLr7FXum072bkFTWbBKItVOeuNM2a38cHIVV.eJiVSY77eJUBl0Sg

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): William DIEGO

2. 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 for TOC meeting (2022-10-13) approval: Motion to be proposed by William DIEGO  second by  Jinri Huang and the Motion was Approved.
2. Review of Today's Agenda.

3. Release Votes and Approval

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-09-08: John Paul Lane and Thoralf Czichy have feedbacked, Jinri Huang will follow up.
      2. 2022-09-22: Jinri Huang the approval process is slowing down due to exchanges of comments, will push forward.
      3. 2022-10-06: John Paul Lane request revised Technical Charter and CCLA before to be submitted to the validation by the board. 
      4. 2022-10-13:  Jinri Huang request from Hank: how many codes under O-RAN software license? How many code of that have being donwloaded from our website? how many os those code have being integrated in our main gerrit? Thoralf Czichy can check it from our gerrit. There are currently 4 projects coming up, and none of them are active (no contribution, or the contribuition was probably replaced by another). Action Sridhar Rao will provide a report to Jinri https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/admin/repos/q/filter:scp (number of repos, description, how many times was downloaded, etc.). Action Martin Skorupski: will provide a description of yang model repo to Jinri.
      5. 2022-10-20: Jack - there are meetings ongoing with the legal team in meeting, they are trying to work out some details on the charter, an e-mail vote will be set up.
      6. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang the charter is the main issue, there are 2 options: (1) to have 2 license O-RAN and SCCL depending on the project or (2) to have only one license for all the projects (the future ones). It does not impact the Apache v2.0 in the OSC.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)

      1. 2022-10-06: user-59b16 demos (videos 5min/10min) are in preparation, H release planning discussion (RSAC Meetings). An agenda proposal was sent by Jinri. Organization is ongoing.
      2. 2022-10-13:  Jinri Huang OSC session on October 20, link to the registration will be sharing (the agenda and other details will be also shared) → https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OAH/pages/2517565622/Agenda+of+the+F2F+meeting+October+17-21+2022+Madrid 
      3. 2022-10-13: user-59b16 list of demos already available (https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/download/attachments/3604609/OSC_F2F_Oct20_2022.pptx?api=v2) plase complet if needed. 10/15 min per project is expected.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang F2F meeting, Junri has sent an e-mail with a webex link. Jinri has also updated the agenda adn included a link for the demo materials.
      5. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang 15 min will be allocated for G release discussion.
   2. Plugfest
      
      1. 2022-07-21 : O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
      3. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang : CFH is closed, with about 80 participants.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
      1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   4. Budget:
      1. 2022-09-01: Jinri Huang: some budget has been approved by board meeting, can be used to buy some tools for o-ran alliance purpose, call for proposals. David Kinsey  is expecting quotes for additionaly RU simulation tools (software). will send them to Jinri to see how to move forward.
      2. 2022-10-06: Jack  - budget plan will be reviewed during the next board meeting. OSC stayed under the budget, it covers cost relative to the repos, support for the community. OSC founds 100% of the community fees.
      3. 2022-10-13: Sridhar Rao: two types of scanning: (1) license scanning of release code, twice a year, and (2) dependecy scanning (nexus). There is an increase in the license scanning part by ~30%, there is a discussion on going with team with is responsable. Action Sridhra: will provide a short presentation on the existing years budgets where the major line items spends. Two options: (1) accept the increase, (2) look for a new provider (and (3) cut budget from somewhere else).
      4. 2022-10-20: Sridhar Rao  he is finalising the slides, it should be ready for next week. The previus AP should be adress next meeting.
      5. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang some budget alocation from EC could be possible, some contributors are planning to buy some equipments in particular vendor members, you will be contacted.
   5. Fyuz event :
      1. 2022-10-06:  David KinseyFyuz event organization. There is a template presentation for the event, contributions will put together in a drive. The event will take place on the first day (25 Oct on evening breakout) at 16h30 CET.
      2. 2022-10-06: Jinri Huangfyuz event: lack of some informations from speakers (e.g. photos, mail adress), Later on Jinri will loop all the speakers.
      3. 2022-10-13: Jinri, We are waiting for further information from the organisers.
      4. 2022-10-20: Jinri Huang all the information is complet. you can check the agenda - https://www.fyuz.events/EN/pages/Agenda
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-10-06: Jack - New Jersey OSC lab will experiment a small window of the disruption mid next year (one week at the most).
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
      2. 2022-09-29: Brandon Wick  : will discuss offline with David Kinsey  to brainstorm ideas.
      3. 2022-10-06:  David Kinsey meeting with people from the 5G super blueprint organization, the slice SLA has been identified as a use case of interest, so we will work on that (H release). Connection from OSC lab to their lab is expected as part of H release.
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-01 Sridhar Rao on new project, most of things are done, report is ready, gerrit project is created, wiki page has been setup, ready to contribute code from AL/ML framework. on report generation issue scan of smo/ves project, 2 types of scan, one is dependency type which is done in nexus clm jobs, another is source level scanning. with next clm jobs, there is no dedicated policy configured for O-RAN, wondering to know the background of the missing of these policies.  Sridhar Rao will gather related materials for discussion in future TOC meetings.
      2. 2022-09-22 Sridhar Rao will setup a meeting for interacting for PTLs and LF teams.
      3. 2022-10-20: Sridhar Rao have being working with James on the use of xTesting, and also updating wiki page with the use of xtesting.
      4. 2022-10-20:  Avinash Bhat AL/ML project is doing well afetr some issues with the creation of repos,the seed cide is completely committed, they have a basic version of the C code available, they will presnet a demo during F2F meeting.
      5. 2022-10-20: Jack - the scan of new code has to be planned in advance in order to avoir last minute issues. Sridhar Rao is planning to scan all the current release in the midle of the release schedule. Jack - November the 10th should be a good Time. AP Sridhar Rao launch a code scan on November 10th.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-09-01: Jack mentioned AL/ML project need to update the wiki for release management: G Release.
         2. 2022-09-15: user-59b16 want some update on lab status, David Kinsey : creating onboarding package to deploy ocu to ocloud. might be a target for H release. MVP-C and network slicing use cases is also discussed.
            
         3. 2022-09-22: user-59b16 : rounding up demos for f2f event (links are posted to wiki), intend to gather representers from almost all project and provide summary of lab status during f2f.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      14. Avinash Bhat AL/ML framework
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

   1. Thoralf : GS getting started "site space" cleanup: Getting Started 
      1. Update the page to notify people that it is under construction (Action : Mahesh)
         1. 2022-09-01 Mahesh and Thoralf Czichy  updated progress
   2. Network slicing from WS1
      1. 2022-09-01: John Murraybrought this topic on the table for discussion
   3. 2022-09-22: Avinash Bhat  seeks help for an issue about encoder/decoder for 3gpp message provided by Nokia. Thoralf Czichy will offer help.
   4. 2022-09-22: Matthew Watkins: need some maintainence work on jenkins infrastructure which results short time service down.
10.  Planning for Next Meeting 

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2022 10 13

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

https://zoom.us/rec/share/FuXBn58K1DtrawC1hFykn9VGa-UcfuOXxOlYDsiExJ1xkBBfRhP7VEb_3OD20-wT.17FR23cHJmZXraHr

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): William DIEGO

2. 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 for TOC meeting (2022-09-29) approval: Motion to be proposed by Jackie Huang  second by John Paul Lane  and the Motion was Approved.
   2. Decision: Minutes for TOC meeting (2022-10-06) approval:Motion to be proposed by  Jinri Huang  second by John Paul Lane  and the Motion was Approved.
2. Review of Today's Agenda.
   1. Sridhar Rao: cost associated with scanning the code base for releases.

3. Release Votes and Approval

   1. Jack: cost structure discussion.

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-09-08: John Paul Lane and Thoralf Czichy have feedbacked, Jinri Huang will follow up.
      2. 2022-09-22: Jinri Huang the approval process is slowing down due to exchanges of comments, will push forward.
      3. 2022-10-06: John Paul Lane request revised Technical Charter and CCLA before to be submitted to the validation by the board. 
      4. 2022-10-13:  Jinri Huang request from Hank: how many codes under O-RAN software license? How many code of that have being donwloaded from our website? how many os those code have being integrated in our main gerrit? Thoralf Czichy can check it from our gerrit. There are currently 4 projects coming up, and none of them are active (no contribution, or the contribuition was probably replaced by another). Action Sridhar Rao will provide a report to Jinri https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/admin/repos/q/filter:scp (number of repos, description, how many times was downloaded, etc.). Action Martin Skorupski: will provide a description of yang model repo to Jinri.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)

      1. 2022-10-06: user-59b16 demos (videos 5min/10min) are in preparation, H release planning discussion (RSAC Meetings). An agenda proposal was sent by Jinri. Organization is ongoing.
      2. 2022-10-13:  Jinri Huang OSC session on October 20, link to the registration will be sharing (the agenda and other details will be also shared) → https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OAH/pages/2517565622/Agenda+of+the+F2F+meeting+October+17-21+2022+Madrid 
      3. 2022-10-13: user-59b16 list of demos already available (https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/download/attachments/3604609/OSC_F2F_Oct20_2022.pptx?api=v2) plase complet if needed. 10/15 min per project is expected.
   2. Plugfest
      
      1. 2022-07-21 : O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
      3. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang : CFH is closed, with about 80 participants.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
      1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   4. Budget:
      1. 2022-09-01: Jinri Huang: some budget has been approved by board meeting, can be used to buy some tools for o-ran alliance purpose, call for proposals. David Kinsey  is expecting quotes for additionaly RU simulation tools (software). will send them to Jinri to see how to move forward.
      2. 2022-10-06: Jack  - budget plan will be reviewed during the next board meeting. OSC stayed under the budget, it covers cost relative to the repos, support for the community. OSC founds 100% of the community fees.
      3. 2022-10-13: Sridhar Rao: two types of scanning: (1) license scanning of release code, twice a year, and (2) dependecy scanning (nexus). There is an increase in the license scanning part by ~30%, there is a discussion on going with team with is responsable. Action Sridhra: will provide a short presentation on the existing years budgets where the major line items spends. Two options: (1)accept the increase, (2) look for a new provider (and (3) cut budget from somewhere else).
   5. Fyuz event :
      1. 2022-10-06:  David KinseyFyuz event organization. There is a template presentation for the event, contributions will put together in a drive. The event will take place on the first day (25 Oct on evening breakout) at 16h30 CET.
      2. 2022-10-06: Jinri Huangfyuz event: lack of some informations from speakers (e.g. photos, mail adress), Later on Jinri will loop all the speakers.
      3. 2022-10-13: Jinri, We are waiting for further information from the organisers.
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-07-21 : David mentioned that some steps has been provided to zero in on the issues. If not resolved Ganesh from Radisys to provide support 
      2. 2022-09-01: Timing issue has been resolved. ready for usage by du/simulators etc.
      3. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey:experiencing lab access issue.  About the purchase testing tool, will have a meeting to review the quote. James Li: The lab in west coast will have similar test partner with keysight, wait for the quote. Jinri Huang asks for brief in slides for this purchasing, and David Kinsey will follow up. David Kinsey:  update for Taiwan lab, setup cu/du testing environments, with addiontal budget, they are looking for setup a set of O-Clouds just like NJ lab. by purchasing hardware with specification shared by David Kinsey
      4. 2022-10-06: Jack - New Jersey OSC lab will experiment a small window of the disruption mid next year (one week at the most).
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
      2. 2022-09-29: Brandon Wick  : will discuss offline with David Kinsey  to brainstorm ideas.
      3. 2022-10-06:  David Kinsey meeting with people from the 5G super blueprint organization, the slice SLA has been identified as a use case of interest, so we will work on that (H release). Connection from OSC lab to their lab is expected as part of H release.
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-01 Sridhar Rao on new project, most of things are done, report is ready, gerrit project is created, wiki page has been setup, ready to contribute code from AL/ML framework. on report generation issue scan of smo/ves project, 2 types of scan, one is dependency type which is done in nexus clm jobs, another is source level scanning. with next clm jobs, there is no dedicated policy configured for O-RAN, wondering to know the background of the missing of these policies.  Sridhar Rao will gather related materials for discussion in future TOC meetings.
      2. 2022-09-22 Sridhar Rao :will setup a meeting for interacting for PTLs and LF teams.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-09-01: Jack mentioned AL/ML project need to update the wiki for release management: G Release.
         2. 2022-09-15: user-59b16 want some update on lab status, David Kinsey : creating onboarding package to deploy ocu to ocloud. might be a target for H release. MVP-C and network slicing use cases is also discussed.
            
         3. 2022-09-22: user-59b16 : rounding up demos for f2f event (links are posted to wiki), intend to gather representers from almost all project and provide summary of lab status during f2f.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      14. (TBD) AL/ML framework
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

   1. Thoralf : GS getting started "site space" cleanup: Getting Started 
      1. Update the page to notify people that it is under construction (Action : Mahesh)
         1. 2022-09-01 Mahesh and Thoralf Czichy  updated progress
   2. Network slicing from WS1
      1. 2022-09-01: John Murraybrought this topic on the table for discussion
   3. 2022-09-22: Avinash Bhat  seeks help for an issue about encoder/decoder for 3gpp message provided by Nokia. Thoralf Czichy will offer help.
   4. 2022-09-22: Matthew Watkins: need some maintainence work on jenkins infrastructure which results short time service down.
10.  Planning for Next Meeting 

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2022 10 06

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

https://zoom.us/rec/share/JHJV6Uiitj7zpw6Twmvp3J7dWtyoD6movNAY_nf0fjeAdg7GJd43_3ycQIGEh6Mu.ik4cSNNm1-JWZ6dc

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): William DIEGO

2. 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 for TOC meeting (2022-09-29) will be voted next week.
2. Review of Today's Agenda.

3. Release Votes and Approval

   1. John Keeney Request for new NONRTRIC Repo: to be discussed next meeting: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/topic/94014537#774
      1. 2022-10-06 Voting request from John (Ericsson) seconded by David Kinseywas approved.

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-07-14 : Need to work on clarification for SCCL license and start having O-RAN WG Material.   Refer to the website on O-RAN Alliance and update the charter Following work with TSC for contributing material to be used down stream. Setup a Meeting with Stephan (he needs to approve the CLA). (Action Point : Jinri)
      2. 2022-07-21 : Meeting planned today and there will be update on this topic next week. The current focus in on O-RAN (does'nt cover 3GPP, ETSI etc)
      3. 2022-07-28 : Meeting with O-RAN Legal Team, the draft of the Project Charter as well as CLA are ready. Once the documents are reviewed the same will be added to the process. There is a continued discussion with ETSI and O-RAN WG on how to organize the documents to make them available to O-RAN SC. Documents will be shared on the reflector . Feedback to be provided by everyone after discussing with their respective legal team.
      4. 2022-08-04: Jinri is out sick, hopefully work on that will make some progress here soon as he's feeling better.
      5. 2022-09-1: Jinri has sent out 2 materials after TOC meeting, no feedback yet so far. Will look for feedback till next TOC meeting.
      6. 2022-09-08: John Paul Lane and Thoralf Czichy have feedbacked, Jinri Huang will follow up.
      7. 2022-09-22: Jinri Huang the approval process is slowing down due to exchanges of comments, will push forward.
      8. 2022-10-06: John Paul Lane request revised Technical Charter and CCLA before to be submitted to the validation by the board. 
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)

      1. 2022-10-06: user-59b16 demos (videos 5min/10min) are in preparation, H release planning discussion (RSAC Meetings). An agenda proposal was sent by Jinri. Organization is ongoing.
   2. Plugfest
      
      1. 2022-07-21 : O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
      3. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang : CFH is closed, with about 80 participants.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
   4. 1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   5. 2022-09-01: Jinri Huang: some budget has been approved by board meeting, can be used to buy some tools for o-ran alliance purpose, call for proposals. David Kinsey  is expecting quotes for additionaly RU simulation tools (software). will send them to Jinri to see how to move forward.
   6. 2022-09-01:  Matthew Watkins introduced himself to community, will do so as well on email reflactor.
   7. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang joint event by O-RAN and TIP
   8. 2022-09-15: Jinri Huang  call for more participants from OSC to join the FYUZ event
   9. 2022-09-22: Jinri Huang updates on FYUZ event: great progess on receving participating interests from community.
   10. 2022-10-06:  David Kinsey Fyuz event organization. There is a template presentation for the event, contributions will put together in a drive. The event will take place on the first day (25 Oct on evening breakout) at 16h30 CET.
   11. 2022-10-06: Jinri Huangfyuz event: lack of some informations from speakers (e.g. photos, mail adress), Later on Jinri will loop all the speakers.
   12. 2022-10-06: Jack  - budget plan will be reviewed during the next board meeting. OSC stayed under the budget, it covers cost relative to the repos, support for the community. OSC founds 100% of the community fees.
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-07-21 : David mentioned that some steps has been provided to zero in on the issues. If not resolved Ganesh from Radisys to provide support 
      2. 2022-09-01: Timing issue has been resolved. ready for usage by du/simulators etc.
      3. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey:experiencing lab access issue.  About the purchase testing tool, will have a meeting to review the quote. James Li: The lab in west coast will have similar test partner with keysight, wait for the quote. Jinri Huang asks for brief in slides for this purchasing, and David Kinsey will follow up. David Kinsey:  update for Taiwan lab, setup cu/du testing environments, with addiontal budget, they are looking for setup a set of O-Clouds just like NJ lab. by purchasing hardware with specification shared by David Kinsey
      4. 2022-10-06: Jack - New Jersey OSC lab will experiment a small window of the disruption mid next year (one week at the most).
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
      2. 2022-09-29: Brandon Wick  : will discuss offline with David Kinsey  to brainstorm ideas.
      3. 2022-10-06:  David Kinsey meeting with people from the 5G super blueprint organization, the slice SLA has been identified as a use case of interest, so we will work on that (H release). Connection from OSC lab to their lab is expected as part of H release.
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-01 Sridhar Rao on new project, most of things are done, report is ready, gerrit project is created, wiki page has been setup, ready to contribute code from AL/ML framework. on report generation issue scan of smo/ves project, 2 types of scan, one is dependency type which is done in nexus clm jobs, another is source level scanning. with next clm jobs, there is no dedicated policy configured for O-RAN, wondering to know the background of the missing of these policies.  Sridhar Rao will gather related materials for discussion in future TOC meetings.
      2. 2022-09-22 Sridhar Rao :will setup a meeting for interacting for PTLs and LF teams.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-07-14 : Rittwik: Updated on the AI/ML Project and mentioned that  pro & Con of separate project were discussed and it was agreed to go with new project.
            1. Samsung will commit 3-5 resources for the AI/ML Project
            2. Call Flow, data Model, touch points should be defined
            3. Define the scope and key other projects that will have deliverables
            4. Jack : Track deliverables. How will it get integrated
            5.  what are the associated project that are tied
            6. Rittwik :  Project disclosure
            7. Tracy: Use case management with respect to AI/ML
            8. Jack : Model Management, what SMO role etc should be covered, What we can do now 
            9. Other G Release activity status was discussed.
            10. Mahesh : Overview of the SMO Plan.
            11. Jack : brought up the documentation readiness and integration touch points .
            12. Rittwik : virtualized DU and collaboration with OAI . Jack clarified the challenges
         2. 2022-07-21 : Review of all project plan are in progress
            1. primer for "G" Release (Action : David/Rittwik)
            2. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey this is done
         3. 2022-08-04: Continued the discussion on the proposed AI/ML project
         4. 2022-08-11: John Murray: I hope to spend a little more time reviewing we're doing in the G release. Thanks to Dave for putting the timeline together and we're getting ready for our Dev sprint 1. We will just the maintenance release status on the Non RT RIC and O-DU-high projects next week.
         5. 2022-09-01: Jack mentioned AL/ML project need to update the wiki for release management: G Release.
         6. 2022-09-15: user-59b16 want some update on lab status, David Kinsey : creating onboarding package to deploy ocu to ocloud. might be a target for H release. MVP-C and network slicing use cases is also discussed.
            
         7. 2022-09-22: user-59b16 : rounding up demos for f2f event (links are posted to wiki), intend to gather representers from almost all project and provide summary of lab status during f2f.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
         1. Demo on SMO VES collector setup provided by Mahesh Jethanandani . Recording available here 
         2. 2022-09-15: experiencing jenkins issue which blocks comments. will continue to push for help from deployment team.

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

         1. 2022-09-22: Ankit Barve undergoning testing in AT&T lab and Taiwan Lab. Ganesh Shenbagaraman updates the status on plugfest.

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

         1. 2022-09-22 Martin Skorupski :improved identity service for securtiy, new image are based java 11, not java8, working on notified pnf registration.

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

          1. 2022-09-22 Alex Stancu : working with oam project on notified pnf registration.

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

          1. 2022-09-22 Jackie Huang Add supporting to debian OS. working on O2 service to align to latest  ORAN spec. Bin Yang will initiate the discussion of integration with SMO with help from RSAC.

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      14. (TBD) AL/ML framework
          1. 2022-09-15: Avinash Bhat: had first kickoff meeting, having minor issue about setting up zoom call. Will upload seed codes in upcoming sprint. will attend f2f event to present this project to community. user-59b16 David Kinsey  to add introduction to this project.
          2. 2022-09-22: Avinash Bhat : setting up repositories. had discussion about
   4. oran f2f event:
      1. 2022-09-15: David Kinsey : preparing demos (near rt ric, odu) for f2f event, and potential ocu deployment to ocloud if possible, Mahesh mentions they are working on odu and smo demo for f2f event. John Keeney will find possible demo to show.
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

   1. Thoralf : GS getting started "site space" cleanup: Getting Started 
      1. Update the page to notify people that it is under construction (Action : Mahesh)
         1. 2022-09-01 Mahesh and Thoralf Czichy  updated progress
      2. LF should give permission to all O_RAN SC members (Action : Sridhar)
         1. 2022-07-21 : Action Closed
   2. Network slicing from WS1
      1. 2022-09-01: John Murraybrought this topic on the table for discussion
   3. O-RAN and TIP joint "open-ran summit" on FUYZ event, Oct. 25-27, Madrid, Spain
      1. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang:  one dedicated session for "open source", 90~120 minutes, trying to setup the framework for the agenda. Call for volunteers for speaker of topics in agenda.
   4. 2022-09-22: Avinash Bhat  seeks help for an issue about encoder/decoder for 3gpp message provided by Nokia. Thoralf Czichy will offer help.
   5. 2022-09-22: Matthew Watkins: need some maintainence work on jenkins infrastructure which results short time service down.
10.  Planning for Next Meeting
    1.  

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2022 09 29

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

https://zoom.us/rec/share/ggLuOOsBcCV9i5T1BdLmTIBEBjMrTJdmb7mC75oIA2398cRMP0sd4qsnufL7QyNG.y1MmEgUOKlm1FAAg

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Bin Yang

2. 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 for TOC meeting (2022-09-15) approval: Motion to be proposed by Jackie Huang ... second by John-Paul and the Motion was Approved
   2. Decision: Minutes for TOC meeting (2022-09-22) approval:Motion to be proposed by  Jackie Huang ... second by John-Paul and the Motion was Approved
2. Review of Today's Agenda.

3. Release Votes and Approval

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-07-14 : Need to work on clarification for SCCL license and start having O-RAN WG Material.   Refer to the website on O-RAN Alliance and update the charter Following work with TSC for contributing material to be used down stream. Setup a Meeting with Stephan (he needs to approve the CLA). (Action Point : Jinri)
      2. 2022-07-21 : Meeting planned today and there will be update on this topic next week. The current focus in on O-RAN (does'nt cover 3GPP, ETSI etc)
      3. 2022-07-28 : Meeting with O-RAN Legal Team, the draft of the Project Charter as well as CLA are ready. Once the documents are reviewed the same will be added to the process. There is a continued discussion with ETSI and O-RAN WG on how to organize the documents to make them available to O-RAN SC. Documents will be shared on the reflector . Feedback to be provided by everyone after discussing with their respective legal team.
      4. 2022-08-04: Jinri is out sick, hopefully work on that will make some progress here soon as he's feeling better.
      5. 2022-09-1: Jinri has sent out 2 materials after TOC meeting, no feedback yet so far. Will look for feedback till next TOC meeting.
      6. 2022-09-08: John Paul Lane and Thoralf Czichy have feedbacked, Jinri Huang will follow up.
      7. 2022-09-22: Jinri Huang the approval process is slowing down due to exchanges of comments, will push forward.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)

   2. Plugfest
      
      1. 2022-07-21 : O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
      3. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang : CFH is closed, with about 80 participants.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
   4. 1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   5. 2022-09-01: Jinri Huang: some budget has been approved by board meeting, can be used to buy some tools for o-ran alliance purpose, call for proposals. David Kinsey  is expecting quotes for additionaly RU simulation tools (software). will send them to Jinri to see how to move forward.
   6. 2022-09-01:  Matthew Watkins introduced himself to community, will do so as well on email reflactor.
   7. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang joint event by O-RAN and TIP
   8. 2022-09-15: Jinri Huang  call for more participants from OSC to join the FYUZ event
   9. 2022-09-22: Jinri Huang updates on FYUZ event: great progess on receving participating interests from community.
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-07-21 : David mentioned that some steps has been provided to zero in on the issues. If not resolved Ganesh from Radisys to provide support 
      2. 2022-09-01: Timing issue has been resolved. ready for usage by du/simulators etc.
      3. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey:experiencing lab access issue.  About the purchase testing tool, will have a meeting to review the quote. James Li: The lab in west coast will have similar test partner with keysight, wait for the quote. Jinri Huang asks for brief in slides for this purchasing, and David Kinsey will follow up. David Kinsey:  update for Taiwan lab, setup cu/du testing environments, with addiontal budget, they are looking for setup a set of O-Clouds just like NJ lab. by purchasing hardware with specification shared by David Kinsey
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
      2. 2022-09-29: Brandon Wick  : will discuss offline with David Kinsey  to brainstorm ideas.
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-01 Sridhar Rao on new project, most of things are done, report is ready, gerrit project is created, wiki page has been setup, ready to contribute code from AL/ML framework. on report generation issue scan of smo/ves project, 2 types of scan, one is dependency type which is done in nexus clm jobs, another is source level scanning. with next clm jobs, there is no dedicated policy configured for O-RAN, wondering to know the background of the missing of these policies.  Sridhar Rao will gather related materials for discussion in future TOC meetings.
      2. 2022-09-22 Sridhar Rao :will setup a meeting for interacting for PTLs and LF teams.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-07-14 : Rittwik: Updated on the AI/ML Project and mentioned that  pro & Con of separate project were discussed and it was agreed to go with new project.
            1. Samsung will commit 3-5 resources for the AI/ML Project
            2. Call Flow, data Model, touch points should be defined
            3. Define the scope and key other projects that will have deliverables
            4. Jack : Track deliverables. How will it get integrated
            5.  what are the associated project that are tied
            6. Rittwik :  Project disclosure
            7. Tracy: Use case management with respect to AI/ML
            8. Jack : Model Management, what SMO role etc should be covered, What we can do now 
            9. Other G Release activity status was discussed.
            10. Mahesh : Overview of the SMO Plan.
            11. Jack : brought up the documentation readiness and integration touch points .
            12. Rittwik : virtualized DU and collaboration with OAI . Jack clarified the challenges
         2. 2022-07-21 : Review of all project plan are in progress
            1. primer for "G" Release (Action : David/Rittwik)
            2. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey this is done
         3. 2022-08-04: Continued the discussion on the proposed AI/ML project
         4. 2022-08-11: John Murray: I hope to spend a little more time reviewing we're doing in the G release. Thanks to Dave for putting the timeline together and we're getting ready for our Dev sprint 1. We will just the maintenance release status on the Non RT RIC and O-DU-high projects next week.
         5. 2022-09-01: Jack mentioned AL/ML project need to update the wiki for release management: G Release.
         6. 2022-09-15: user-59b16 want some update on lab status, David Kinsey : creating onboarding package to deploy ocu to ocloud. might be a target for H release. MVP-C and network slicing use cases is also discussed.
            
         7. 2022-09-22: user-59b16 : rounding up demos for f2f event (links are posted to wiki), intend to gather representers from almost all project and provide summary of lab status during f2f.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
         1. Demo on SMO VES collector setup provided by Mahesh Jethanandani . Recording available here 
         2. 2022-09-15: experiencing jenkins issue which blocks comments. will continue to push for help from deployment team.

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

         1. 2022-09-22: Ankit Barve undergoning testing in AT&T lab and Taiwan Lab. Ganesh Shenbagaraman updates the status on plugfest.

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

         1. 2022-09-22 Martin Skorupski :improved identity service for securtiy, new image are based java 11, not java8, working on notified pnf registration.

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

          1. 2022-09-22 Alex Stancu : working with oam project on notified pnf registration.

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

          1. 2022-09-22 Jackie Huang Add supporting to debian OS. working on O2 service to align to latest  ORAN spec. Bin Yang will initiate the discussion of integration with SMO with help from RSAC.

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      14. (TBD) AL/ML framework
          1. 2022-09-15: Avinash Bhat: had first kickoff meeting, having minor issue about setting up zoom call. Will upload seed codes in upcoming sprint. will attend f2f event to present this project to community. user-59b16 David Kinsey  to add introduction to this project.
          2. 2022-09-22: Avinash Bhat : setting up repositories. had discussion about
   4. oran f2f event:
      1. 2022-09-15: David Kinsey : preparing demos (near rt ric, odu) for f2f event, and potential ocu deployment to ocloud if possible, Mahesh mentions they are working on odu and smo demo for f2f event. John Keeney will find possible demo to show.
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

   1. Thoralf : GS getting started "site space" cleanup: Getting Started 
      1. Update the page to notify people that it is under construction (Action : Mahesh)
         1. 2022-09-01 Mahesh and Thoralf Czichy  updated progress
      2. LF should give permission to all O_RAN SC members (Action : Sridhar)
         1. 2022-07-21 : Action Closed
   2. Network slicing from WS1
      1. 2022-09-01: John Murraybrought this topic on the table for discussion
   3. O-RAN and TIP joint "open-ran summit" on FUYZ event, Oct. 25-27, Madrid, Spain
      1. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang:  one dedicated session for "open source", 90~120 minutes, trying to setup the framework for the agenda. Call for volunteers for speaker of topics in agenda.
   4. 2022-09-22: Avinash Bhat  seeks help for an issue about encoder/decoder for 3gpp message provided by Nokia. Thoralf Czichy will offer help.
   5. 2022-09-22: Matthew Watkins: need some maintainence work on jenkins infrastructure which results short time service down.
10.  Planning for Next Meeting
    1.  

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2022 09 22

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

https://zoom.us/rec/share/W3rTKlG2nLYkEMeAk4vz_N6oNGNmPXS9YDSmmC2EoB1sEP8NyhSwrQ_9FQ4NY2Kb.3TTBE6eq6BvS-toP

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Bin Yang

2. 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 for TOC meeting (2022-09-15) approval: deferred to next TOC meeting
2. Review of Today's Agenda.

3. Release Votes and Approval

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-07-14 : Need to work on clarification for SCCL license and start having O-RAN WG Material.   Refer to the website on O-RAN Alliance and update the charter Following work with TSC for contributing material to be used down stream. Setup a Meeting with Stephan (he needs to approve the CLA). (Action Point : Jinri)
      2. 2022-07-21 : Meeting planned today and there will be update on this topic next week. The current focus in on O-RAN (does'nt cover 3GPP, ETSI etc)
      3. 2022-07-28 : Meeting with O-RAN Legal Team, the draft of the Project Charter as well as CLA are ready. Once the documents are reviewed the same will be added to the process. There is a continued discussion with ETSI and O-RAN WG on how to organize the documents to make them available to O-RAN SC. Documents will be shared on the reflector . Feedback to be provided by everyone after discussing with their respective legal team.
      4. 2022-08-04: Jinri is out sick, hopefully work on that will make some progress here soon as he's feeling better.
      5. 2022-09-1: Jinri has sent out 2 materials after TOC meeting, no feedback yet so far. Will look for feedback till next TOC meeting.
      6. 2022-09-08: John Paul Lane and Thoralf Czichy have feedbacked, Jinri Huang will follow up.
      7. 2022-09-22: Jinri Huang the approval process is slowing down due to exchanges of comments, will push forward.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)

   2. Plugfest
      
      1. 2022-07-21 : O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
      3. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang : CFH is closed, with about 80 participants.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
   4. 1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   5. 2022-09-01: Jinri Huang: some budget has been approved by board meeting, can be used to buy some tools for o-ran alliance purpose, call for proposals. David Kinsey  is expecting quotes for additionaly RU simulation tools (software). will send them to Jinri to see how to move forward.
   6. 2022-09-01:  Matthew Watkins introduced himself to community, will do so as well on email reflactor.
   7. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang joint event by O-RAN and TIP
   8. 2022-09-15: Jinri Huang  call for more participants from OSC to join the FYUZ event
   9. 2022-09-22: Jinri Huang updates on FYUZ event: great progess on receving participating interests from community.
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-07-21 : David mentioned that some steps has been provided to zero in on the issues. If not resolved Ganesh from Radisys to provide support 
      2. 2022-09-01: Timing issue has been resolved. ready for usage by du/simulators etc.
      3. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey:experiencing lab access issue.  About the purchase testing tool, will have a meeting to review the quote. James Li: The lab in west coast will have similar test partner with keysight, wait for the quote. Jinri Huang asks for brief in slides for this purchasing, and David Kinsey will follow up. David Kinsey:  update for Taiwan lab, setup cu/du testing environments, with addiontal budget, they are looking for setup a set of O-Clouds just like NJ lab. by purchasing hardware with specification shared by David Kinsey
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
      2. 2022-09-29: Brandon Wick  : will discuss offline with David Kinsey  to brainstorm ideas.
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-01 Sridhar Rao on new project, most of things are done, report is ready, gerrit project is created, wiki page has been setup, ready to contribute code from AL/ML framework. on report generation issue scan of smo/ves project, 2 types of scan, one is dependency type which is done in nexus clm jobs, another is source level scanning. with next clm jobs, there is no dedicated policy configured for O-RAN, wondering to know the background of the missing of these policies.  Sridhar Rao will gather related materials for discussion in future TOC meetings.
      2. 2022-09-22 Sridhar Rao :will setup a meeting for interacting for PTLs and LF teams.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-07-14 : Rittwik: Updated on the AI/ML Project and mentioned that  pro & Con of separate project were discussed and it was agreed to go with new project.
            1. Samsung will commit 3-5 resources for the AI/ML Project
            2. Call Flow, data Model, touch points should be defined
            3. Define the scope and key other projects that will have deliverables
            4. Jack : Track deliverables. How will it get integrated
            5.  what are the associated project that are tied
            6. Rittwik :  Project disclosure
            7. Tracy: Use case management with respect to AI/ML
            8. Jack : Model Management, what SMO role etc should be covered, What we can do now 
            9. Other G Release activity status was discussed.
            10. Mahesh : Overview of the SMO Plan.
            11. Jack : brought up the documentation readiness and integration touch points .
            12. Rittwik : virtualized DU and collaboration with OAI . Jack clarified the challenges
         2. 2022-07-21 : Review of all project plan are in progress
            1. primer for "G" Release (Action : David/Rittwik)
            2. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey this is done
         3. 2022-08-04: Continued the discussion on the proposed AI/ML project
         4. 2022-08-11: John Murray: I hope to spend a little more time reviewing we're doing in the G release. Thanks to Dave for putting the timeline together and we're getting ready for our Dev sprint 1. We will just the maintenance release status on the Non RT RIC and O-DU-high projects next week.
         5. 2022-09-01: Jack mentioned AL/ML project need to update the wiki for release management: G Release.
         6. 2022-09-15: user-59b16 want some update on lab status, David Kinsey : creating onboarding package to deploy ocu to ocloud. might be a target for H release. MVP-C and network slicing use cases is also discussed.
            
         7. 2022-09-22: user-59b16 : rounding up demos for f2f event (links are posted to wiki), intend to gather representers from almost all project and provide summary of lab status during f2f.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
         1. Demo on SMO VES collector setup provided by Mahesh Jethanandani . Recording available here 
         2. 2022-09-15: experiencing jenkins issue which blocks comments. will continue to push for help from deployment team.

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

         1. 2022-09-22: Ankit Barve undergoning testing in AT&T lab and Taiwan Lab. Ganesh Shenbagaraman updates the status on plugfest.

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

         1. 2022-09-22 Martin Skorupski :improved identity service for securtiy, new image are based java 11, not java8, working on notified pnf registration.

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

          1. 2022-09-22 Alex Stancu : working with oam project on notified pnf registration.

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

          1. 2022-09-22 Jackie Huang Add supporting to debian OS. working on O2 service to align to latest  ORAN spec. Bin Yang will initiate the discussion of integration with SMO with help from RSAC.

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      14. (TBD) AL/ML framework
          1. 2022-09-15: Avinash Bhat: had first kickoff meeting, having minor issue about setting up zoom call. Will upload seed codes in upcoming sprint. will attend f2f event to present this project to community. user-59b16 David Kinsey  to add introduction to this project.
          2. 2022-09-22: Avinash Bhat : setting up repositories. had discussion about
   4. oran f2f event:
      1. 2022-09-15: David Kinsey : preparing demos (near rt ric, odu) for f2f event, and potential ocu deployment to ocloud if possible, Mahesh mentions they are working on odu and smo demo for f2f event. John Keeney will find possible demo to show.
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

   1. Thoralf : GS getting started "site space" cleanup: Getting Started 
      1. Update the page to notify people that it is under construction (Action : Mahesh)
         1. 2022-09-01 Mahesh and Thoralf Czichy  updated progress
      2. LF should give permission to all O_RAN SC members (Action : Sridhar)
         1. 2022-07-21 : Action Closed
   2. Network slicing from WS1
      1. 2022-09-01: John Murraybrought this topic on the table for discussion
   3. O-RAN and TIP joint "open-ran summit" on FUYZ event, Oct. 25-27, Madrid, Spain
      1. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang:  one dedicated session for "open source", 90~120 minutes, trying to setup the framework for the agenda. Call for volunteers for speaker of topics in agenda.
   4. 2022-09-22: Ankit Barve  seeks help for an issue about encoder/decoder for 3gpp message provided by Nokia. Thoralf Czichy will offer help.
   5. 2022-09-22: Matthew Watkins: need some maintainence work on jenkins infrastructure which results short time service down.
10.  Planning for Next Meeting
    1.  

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2022 09 15

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Bin Yang

2. 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 for TOC meeting (2022-09-08) approval: Motion to be proposed by Jackie Huang second by Andrea Buldorini   and the Motion was approved
2. Review of Today's Agenda.

3. Release Votes and Approval

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-07-14 : Need to work on clarification for SCCL license and start having O-RAN WG Material.   Refer to the website on O-RAN Alliance and update the charter Following work with TSC for contributing material to be used down stream. Setup a Meeting with Stephan (he needs to approve the CLA). (Action Point : Jinri)
      2. 2022-07-21 : Meeting planned today and there will be update on this topic next week. The current focus in on O-RAN (does'nt cover 3GPP, ETSI etc)
      3. 2022-07-28 : Meeting with O-RAN Legal Team, the draft of the Project Charter as well as CLA are ready. Once the documents are reviewed the same will be added to the process. There is a continued discussion with ETSI and O-RAN WG on how to organize the documents to make them available to O-RAN SC. Documents will be shared on the reflector . Feedback to be provided by everyone after discussing with their respective legal team.
      4. 2022-08-04: Jinri is out sick, hopefully work on that will make some progress here soon as he's feeling better.
      5. 2022-09-1: Jinri has sent out 2 materials after TOC meeting, no feedback yet so far. Will look for feedback till next TOC meeting.
      6. 2022-09-08: John Paul Lane and Thoralf Czichy have feedbacked, Jinri Huang will follow up.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)

   2. Plugfest
      
      1. 2022-07-21 : O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
      3. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang : CFH is closed, with about 80 participants.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
   4. 1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   5. 2022-09-01: Jinri Huang: some budget has been approved by board meeting, can be used to buy some tools for o-ran alliance purpose, call for proposals. David Kinsey  is expecting quotes for additionaly RU simulation tools (software). will send them to Jinri to see how to move forward.
   6. 2022-09-01:  Matthew Watkins introduced himself to community, will do so as well on email reflactor.
   7. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang joint event by O-RAN and TIP
   8. 2022-09-15: Jinri Huang  call for more participants from OSC to join the FYUZ event
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-07-21 : David mentioned that some steps has been provided to zero in on the issues. If not resolved Ganesh from Radisys to provide support 
      2. 2022-09-01: Timing issue has been resolved. ready for usage by du/simulators etc.
      3. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey:experiencing lab access issue.  About the purchase testing tool, will have a meeting to review the quote. James Li: The lab in west coast will have similar test partner with keysight, wait for the quote. Jinri Huang asks for brief in slides for this purchasing, and David Kinsey will follow up. David Kinsey:  update for Taiwan lab, setup cu/du testing environments, with addiontal budget, they are looking for setup a set of O-Clouds just like NJ lab. by purchasing hardware with specification shared by David Kinsey
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-01 Sridhar Rao on new project, most of things are done, report is ready, gerrit project is created, wiki page has been setup, ready to contribute code from AL/ML framework. on report generation issue scan of smo/ves project, 2 types of scan, one is dependency type which is done in nexus clm jobs, another is source level scanning. with next clm jobs, there is no dedicated policy configured for O-RAN, wondering to know the background of the missing of these policies.  Sridhar Rao will gather related materials for discussion in future TOC meetings.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-07-14 : Rittwik: Updated on the AI/ML Project and mentioned that  pro & Con of separate project were discussed and it was agreed to go with new project.
            1. Samsung will commit 3-5 resources for the AI/ML Project
            2. Call Flow, data Model, touch points should be defined
            3. Define the scope and key other projects that will have deliverables
            4. Jack : Track deliverables. How will it get integrated
            5.  what are the associated project that are tied
            6. Rittwik :  Project disclosure
            7. Tracy: Use case management with respect to AI/ML
            8. Jack : Model Management, what SMO role etc should be covered, What we can do now 
            9. Other G Release activity status was discussed.
            10. Mahesh : Overview of the SMO Plan.
            11. Jack : brought up the documentation readiness and integration touch points .
            12. Rittwik : virtualized DU and collaboration with OAI . Jack clarified the challenges
         2. 2022-07-21 : Review of all project plan are in progress
            1. primer for "G" Release (Action : David/Rittwik)
            2. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey this is done
         3. 2022-08-04: Continued the discussion on the proposed AI/ML project
         4. 2022-08-11: John Murray: I hope to spend a little more time reviewing we're doing in the G release. Thanks to Dave for putting the timeline together and we're getting ready for our Dev sprint 1. We will just the maintenance release status on the Non RT RIC and O-DU-high projects next week.
         5. 2022-09-01: Jack mentioned AL/ML project need to update the wiki for release management: G Release.
         6. 2022-09-15: user-59b16 want some update on lab status, David Kinsey : creating onboarding package to deploy ocu to ocloud. might be a target for H release. MVP-C and network slicing use cases is also discussed.
            
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
         1. Demo on SMO VES collector setup provided by Mahesh Jethanandani . Recording available here 
         2. 2022-09-15: experiencing jenkins issue which blocks comments. will continue to push for help from deployment team.

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      14. (TBD) AL/ML framework
          1. 2022-09-15: Avinash Bhat: had first kickoff meeting, having minor issue about setting up zoom call. Will upload seed codes in upcoming sprint. will attend f2f event to present this project to community. user-59b16 David Kinsey  to add introduction to this project.
   4. oran f2f event:
      1. 2022-09-15: David Kinsey : preparing demos (near rt ric, odu) for f2f event, and potential ocu deployment to ocloud if possible, Mahesh mentions they are working on odu and smo demo for f2f event. John Keeney will find possible demo to show.
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

   1. Thoralf : GS getting started "site space" cleanup: Getting Started 
      1. Update the page to notify people that it is under construction (Action : Mahesh)
         1. 2022-09-01 Mahesh and Thoralf Czichy  updated progress
      2. LF should give permission to all O_RAN SC members (Action : Sridhar)
         1. 2022-07-21 : Action Closed
   2. Network slicing from WS1
      1. 2022-09-01: John Murraybrought this topic on the table for discussion
   3. O-RAN and TIP joint "open-ran summit" on FUYZ event, Oct. 25-27, Madrid, Spain
      1. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang:  one dedicated session for "open source", 90~120 minutes, trying to setup the framework for the agenda. Call for volunteers for speaker of topics in agenda.
10.  Planning for Next Meeting
    1.  

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2022 09 08

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

https://zoom.us/rec/share/kfsCLVAGfOpP2Z0hIWYdgJvix6XXOe-PcHjOe9sJnR4PrkTMGo4wkJXwm_V4rs-f.-X83N1xRfgmPQ2YJ

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Bin Yang

2. 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 for TOC meeting (1st Sept. 2022) approval: Motion to be proposed by Bin Yang second by Avinash Bhat  and the Motion was approved
2. Review of Today's Agenda.

3. Release Votes and Approval

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-07-14 : Need to work on clarification for SCCL license and start having O-RAN WG Material.   Refer to the website on O-RAN Alliance and update the charter Following work with TSC for contributing material to be used down stream. Setup a Meeting with Stephan (he needs to approve the CLA). (Action Point : Jinri)
      2. 2022-07-21 : Meeting planned today and there will be update on this topic next week. The current focus in on O-RAN (does'nt cover 3GPP, ETSI etc)
      3. 2022-07-28 : Meeting with O-RAN Legal Team, the draft of the Project Charter as well as CLA are ready. Once the documents are reviewed the same will be added to the process. There is a continued discussion with ETSI and O-RAN WG on how to organize the documents to make them available to O-RAN SC. Documents will be shared on the reflector . Feedback to be provided by everyone after discussing with their respective legal team.
      4. 2022-08-04: Jinri is out sick, hopefully work on that will make some progress here soon as he's feeling better.
      5. 2022-09-1: Jinri has sent out 2 materials after TOC meeting, no feedback yet so far. Will look for feedback till next TOC meeting.
      6. 2022-09-08: John Paul Lane and Thoralf Czichy have feedbacked, Jinri Huang will follow up.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)

   2. Plugfest
      
      1. 2022-07-21 : O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
      3. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang : CFH is closed, with about 80 participants.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
   4. 1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   5. 2022-09-01: Jinri Huang: some budget has been approved by board meeting, can be used to buy some tools for o-ran alliance purpose, call for proposals. David Kinsey  is expecting quotes for additionaly RU simulation tools (software). will send them to Jinri to see how to move forward.
   6. 2022-09-01:  Matthew Watkins introduced himself to community, will do so as well on email reflactor.
   7. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang joint event by O-RAN and TIP
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-07-21 : David mentioned that some steps has been provided to zero in on the issues. If not resolved Ganesh from Radisys to provide support 
      2. 2022-09-01: Timing issue has been resolved. ready for usage by du/simulators etc.
      3. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey:experiencing lab access issue.  About the purchase testing tool, will have a meeting to review the quote. James Li: The lab in west coast will have similar test partner with keysight, wait for the quote. Jinri Huang asks for brief in slides for this purchasing, and David Kinsey will follow up. David Kinsey:  update for Taiwan lab, setup cu/du testing environments, with addiontal budget, they are looking for setup a set of O-Clouds just like NJ lab. by purchasing hardware with specification shared by David Kinsey
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-01 Sridhar Rao on new project, most of things are done, report is ready, gerrit project is created, wiki page has been setup, ready to contribute code from AL/ML framework. on report generation issue scan of smo/ves project, 2 types of scan, one is dependency type which is done in nexus clm jobs, another is source level scanning. with next clm jobs, there is no dedicated policy configured for O-RAN, wondering to know the background of the missing of these policies.  Sridhar Rao will gather related materials for discussion in future TOC meetings.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-07-14 : Rittwik: Updated on the AI/ML Project and mentioned that  pro & Con of separate project were discussed and it was agreed to go with new project.
            1. Samsung will commit 3-5 resources for the AI/ML Project
            2. Call Flow, data Model, touch points should be defined
            3. Define the scope and key other projects that will have deliverables
            4. Jack : Track deliverables. How will it get integrated
            5.  what are the associated project that are tied
            6. Rittwik :  Project disclosure
            7. Tracy: Use case management with respect to AI/ML
            8. Jack : Model Management, what SMO role etc should be covered, What we can do now 
            9. Other G Release activity status was discussed.
            10. Mahesh : Overview of the SMO Plan.
            11. Jack : brought up the documentation readiness and integration touch points .
            12. Rittwik : virtualized DU and collaboration with OAI . Jack clarified the challenges
         2. 2022-07-21 : Review of all project plan are in progress
            1. primer for "G" Release (Action : David/Rittwik)
            2. 2022-09-08: David Kinsey this is done
         3. 2022-08-04: Continued the discussion on the proposed AI/ML project
         4. 2022-08-11: John Murray: I hope to spend a little more time reviewing we're doing in the G release. Thanks to Dave for putting the timeline together and we're getting ready for our Dev sprint 1. We will just the maintenance release status on the Non RT RIC and O-DU-high projects next week.
         5. 2022-09-01: Jack mentioned AL/ML project need to update the wiki for release management: G Release.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
         1. Demo on SMO VES collector setup provided by Mahesh Jethanandani . Recording available here 

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      14. (TBD) AL/ML framework
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

   1. Thoralf : GS getting started "site space" cleanup: Getting Started 
      1. Update the page to notify people that it is under construction (Action : Mahesh)
         1. 2022-09-01 Mahesh and Thoralf Czichy  updated progress
      2. LF should give permission to all O_RAN SC members (Action : Sridhar)
         1. 2022-07-21 : Action Closed
   2. Network slicing from WS1
      1. 2022-09-01: John Murraybrought this topic on the table for discussion
   3. O-RAN and TIP joint "open-ran summit" on FUYZ event, Oct. 25-27, Madrid, Spain
      1. 2022-09-08: Jinri Huang:  one dedicated session for "open source", 90~120 minutes, trying to setup the framework for the agenda. Call for volunteers for speaker of topics in agenda.
10.  Planning for Next Meeting
    1.  

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2022 09 01

Recording: 

Meeting Recording:

Topic: Zoom3 O-RAN SC's Personal Meeting Room

Start Time: Aug 25, 2022 09:01 AM EST

Meeting Recording:  

https://zoom.us/rec/share/JjqtiNPnZoPF5bSszZmxcWeu3Y4W4g034YWEfI91OCBZhBSEre0T9aL57Hr4FzEm.8RCEchjFPTf27-Vo

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Bin Yang

2. 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 for TOC meeting (25th August 2022) approval: Motion to be proposed by James Li second by John Paul Lane  and the Motion was approved
2. Review of Today's Agenda.
   1. Jack will be off for next TOC meeting, Jinri agreed to cover for him to run next TOC meeting

3. Release Votes and Approval

4. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. 2022-07-14 : Need to work on clarification for SCCL license and start having O-RAN WG Material.   Refer to the website on O-RAN Alliance and update the charter Following work with TSC for contributing material to be used down stream. Setup a Meeting with Stephan (he needs to approve the CLA). (Action Point : Jinri)
      2. 2022-07-21 : Meeting planned today and there will be update on this topic next week. The current focus in on O-RAN (does'nt cover 3GPP, ETSI etc)
      3. 2022-07-28 : Meeting with O-RAN Legal Team, the draft of the Project Charter as well as CLA are ready. Once the documents are reviewed the same will be added to the process. There is a continued discussion with ETSI and O-RAN WG on how to organize the documents to make them available to O-RAN SC. Documents will be shared on the reflector . Feedback to be provided by everyone after discussing with their respective legal team.
      4. 2022-08-04: Jinri is out sick, hopefully work on that will make some progress here soon as he's feeling better.
      5. 2022-09-1: Jinri has sent out 2 materials after TOC meeting, no feedback yet so far. Will look for feedback till next TOC meeting.
5. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting (Oct'22)

   2. Plugfest
      
      1. 2022-07-21 : O-RAN Alliance will initiate the Call for Host on July 24th
      2. 2022-08-11: Jinri Huang: Call for host for the fall Plugfest has been issued, and there are quite a few applications for host.
   3. Challenges for the OSC community (as report to EC)
   4. 1. 2022-07-14 : There is no update this week
   5. 2022-09-01: Jinri Huang: some budget has been approved by board meeting, can be used to buy some tools for o-ran alliance purpose, call for proposals. David Kinsey  is expecting quotes for additionaly RU simulation tools (software). will send them to Jinri to see how to move forward.
   6. 2022-09-01:  Matthew Watkins introduced himself to community, will do so as well on email reflactor.
6. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "G" Release 
   2. OSC Lab
      1. 2022-07-21 : David mentioned that some steps has been provided to zero in on the issues. If not resolved Ganesh from Radisys to provide support 
      2. 2022-09-01: Timing issue has been resolved. ready for usage by du/simulators etc.
   3. 5G Super Blueprint status - to be considered for H release.
      1. 2022-07-21 : David  mentioned that there hasnt been any progress on this. Decided to move to H release. (Updated the title header from G to H to reflect the same)
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager  Sridhar Rao  /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 2022-09-01 Sridhar Rao on new project, most of things are done, report is ready, gerrit project is created, wiki page has been setup, ready to contribute code from AL/ML framework. on report generation issue scan of smo/ves project, 2 types of scan, one is dependency type which is done in nexus clm jobs, another is source level scanning. with next clm jobs, there is no dedicated policy configured for O-RAN, wondering to know the background of the missing of these policies.  Sridhar Rao will gather related materials for discussion in future TOC meetings.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      1. "G" Release
         1. 2022-07-14 : Rittwik: Updated on the AI/ML Project and mentioned that  pro & Con of separate project were discussed and it was agreed to go with new project.
            1. Samsung will commit 3-5 resources for the AI/ML Project
            2. Call Flow, data Model, touch points should be defined
            3. Define the scope and key other projects that will have deliverables
            4. Jack : Track deliverables. How will it get integrated
            5.  what are the associated project that are tied
            6. Rittwik :  Project disclosure
            7. Tracy: Use case management with respect to AI/ML
            8. Jack : Model Management, what SMO role etc should be covered, What we can do now 
            9. Other G Release activity status was discussed.
            10. Mahesh : Overview of the SMO Plan.
            11. Jack : brought up the documentation readiness and integration touch points .
            12. Rittwik : virtualized DU and collaboration with OAI . Jack clarified the challenges
         2. 2022-07-21 : Review of all project plan are in progress
            1. primer for "G" Release (Action : David/Rittwik)
         3. 2022-08-04: Continued the discussion on the proposed AI/ML project
         4. 2022-08-11: John Murray: I hope to spend a little more time reviewing we're doing in the G release. Thanks to Dave for putting the timeline together and we're getting ready for our Dev sprint 1. We will just the maintenance release status on the Non RT RIC and O-DU-high projects next week.
         5. 2022-09-01: Jack mentioned AL/ML project need to update the wiki for release management: G Release.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      2. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
         1. Demo on SMO VES collector setup provided by Mahesh Jethanandani . Recording available here 

      3. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      4. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      5. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      6. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      7. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      8. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW) 

      9. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      10. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      11. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      12. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      13. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
8. Collaboration with OAI
   1. 2022-05-26: discussed with OAI last week. Licensing will be addressed by OAI and reported next time

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

   1. Thoralf : GS getting started "site space" cleanup: Getting Started 
      1. Update the page to notify people that it is under construction (Action : Mahesh)
         1. 2022-09-01 Mahesh and Thoralf Czichy  updated progress
      2. LF should give permission to all O_RAN SC members (Action : Sridhar)
         1. 2022-07-21 : Action Closed
   2. Network slicing from WS1
      1. 2022-09-01: John Murraybrought this topic on the table for discussion
10.  Planning for Next Meeting
    1.  

11. Any Other Business (AOB)

    1. ONES in Seattle in Nov.
       1. 2022-09-01: David Kinsey: focus on o-ran/o-ran-sc, wondering if project of osc planning to demo or speak at that event. Martin Skorupski mentioned the deployment of solution with oem and simulators and non-rt ric.John Keeney will share the related links. Thoralf Czichy Nokia will have representation there related to O-Cloud infrastructure.

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