Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

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2019 12

18

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen CefaluLusheng Ji

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

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

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
4. Vote to approve minutes for 04 Dec 2019 
On motion made by Jinri Huang
5. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
6. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
7. Review of Today's Agenda
8. Release Votes and Approval
   • Have a wiki link with all the release info in one place (in process)
   • Vote to accept the license scan and upstream licenses are approved for use. These have been reviewed with LF and are normal.
   • Vote on the official release of Amber and  branches.  Vote to approve the branching and release of the Amber software.
   • Review Project Readiness for Amber Release
   .  Lusheng asking to accept all the repos on the Project Readiness for Amber Release for the branching of the Amber release. 
   • Review Bronze 
   • Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
     • Jinri - Making a video that will cover the software community.
     • Zbynek (PM O-RAN Alliance marketing and communications) wrote a newsletter for the EC meeting.  Jinri will attend and will include the Amber release in this newsletter.
   • Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
     • Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.
     • Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
     • Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
     • Action/ Jinri Huang provide an answer to user-59b16 regarding support for O-CU, O-DU.  Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
     • Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.
   • Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
     1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
        1. Project Readiness for Amber Release
        2. Maintenance Release
        3. Project Bronze Release
     2. user-d3360 Test & Integration Planning (INT)
     3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
        1. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 
        2. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 
        3. user-a934b O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU)
        4. Sachin Srivastava O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)
        5. Zhimin Yuan O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)
        6. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)
        7. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)
        8. Xiaohua Zhang Infrastructure (INF)
        9. weichen niDocumentation (DOC)
        10. John Keeney Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)
        11. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
     4. user-59b16 Requirements Software Architecture Committee
        • Epics are complete for the Bronze release.
        • Multiple discussions around two use cases.
          • Traffic sharing
          • Health-check
        • Rittwik asked about contributions for O-CU.
        • Action/ Jinri Huang provide an answer to user-59b16 regarding support for O-CU, O-DU.  Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
        • Use Samsung as an E2 starter example.
        • Between now and end of year all PTLs must put the epics into Jira.
        • In January the TOC calls should refer Jira tickets.
        • We are ready to release the bronze release document.(Contributions)
        • Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.
        • Martin - suggestion to create one common link.
   • New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
     1. Jinri - 5 minutes to introduce the Asian Plugfest and 3 minutes for the O-RAN F2F 
        1. Next F2F is in Feb 17 - 22 in Paris.  One week after Barcelona meeting.
           1. Daily working sessions with only 3 hours for TOC.  Would like to see more time for TOC added to the agenda.
           2. All these sessions happen in parallel. They are across different working groups.  Before we used to invite our delegates from other WGs to join.  We also want to reach out to have different WGs meet.  Example would be Rittwik attending another working group meeting.
           3. Rittwik only drawback is when TOC is going on you miss the parallel sessions.  
     2. Rittwik - Raise a concern about the low attendance of PTLs for the Bronze release planning.
        1. It is the end of year holiday season so low attendance is expected this time of year.
   • Planning for Next Meeting
   • Any Other Business (AOB) 
   • Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
     1. Votes
        1. The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
           1. Vote to approve minutes for 04 Dec 2019 
           2. On motion made by Jinri Huang
           3. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
           4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
     2. Actions
        1. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC when you can not attend the TOC meeting.
        2. Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
        3. Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
        4. Action/ Jinri Huang provide an answer to user-59b16 regarding support for O-CU, O-DU.  Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
        5. Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.

2019 12

11

Zoom meeting: 2019-12-0411-toc-audio_only_1.m4a.mp4

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl

   x

   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x
   Orange	William Diego		Vincent Danno
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
      1. Vote to approve minutes for 20 Nov 2019 
      2. On motion made by Jinri Huang
      3. Seconded by user-2057e
      4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
      The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there was a request to update the audio recording.  Recording updated 
      1. 04 Dec
      2019 Vote to approve minutes for 27 Nov
      1. 2019 
      2. On motion made by Jinri Huang
      3. Seconded by 
      user-2057e
      1. MASAFUMI MASUDA
      2. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Release Votes and Approval
   • Have a wiki link with all the release info in one place (in process)
   • Vote to accept the license scan and upstream licenses are approved for use. These have been reviewed with LF and are normal.
   • Vote on the official release of Amber and  branches.  Vote to approve the branching and release of the Amber software.
   • Review Project Readiness for Amber Release
   .  Lusheng asking to accept all the repos on the Project Readiness for Amber Release for the branching of the Amber release. 
   • Added Bronze 
   • Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
     • Jinri - Making a video that will cover the software community.
     • Zbynek (PM O-RAN Alliance marketing and communications) wrote a newsletter for the EC meeting.  Jinri will attend and will include the Amber release in this newsletter.

1. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/Jinri Huang  will create a framework  for the O-RAN SC marketing plan.
      • Contact Jinri for details around the marketing plan.
      • Jinri - On the web page I saw some videos.  We really need to take advantage of the videos at the events.
      • Plugfest Beijing will last two weeks and there is also Barcelona to activate the marketing plan.
      • Channels to promote our visibility
        • Press Release
        • Symposium. - Consisted of key notes and round table for the traditional symposium.  Will be in Barcelona this year.
        • Industry events - Invite key speakers to discuss the key features of O-RAN.
      • Possible additional channels
        • O-RAN newsletter internal base of 1200 wiki users, plus 285 subscriptions from web.
        • Twitter 
        • Promotional Videos
      • Zbynek Dalecky is the project organizer for the O-RAN Alliance press releases and site.
        • Do we know where to upload the videos?  Do we have a sample place for that?
          • Releasing Amber Tasks
   2. Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
      • Tracy - Plugfest in Beijing and a complimentary meeting in Europe.  There is a readout December 5th.  I am a member of Paul Smith's team.  The EC put on their timeline some blog or press release for the blog and the plugfest the week of December 15.
      • Martin - Setting up infrastructure and will document our findings.  The preparations of such an event makes us exercise.
      • POCs and plugfests are ongoing.  We will be able to do a lot more with the bronze release. 
      • When will the readout be ready?
        • It's been a challenge.  Thursday 9:30 ET USA. We will put the recording on the O-SC wiki as well as the O-RAN wiki.
      • The North American plugfest should be on everyone's calendar.
      • Tracy thanked the vendors for their support.
      • What is relationship between the POC and the Plugfest?
        • POC in NA and Europe POC is the software management plane.  In Beijing it is more the hardware side.  They are complimentary.
        • We will collect all of the screenshots and videos and you and Paul can craft the message.
      Action/ Jinri Huang  will add the F2F meeting minutes to the events page. 27 Nov 2019
      • Jinri - 2 plugfest sessions last week organized by Tracy has been recorded.  Tracy reported this to EC this morning.  Tracy raised whether she can share the video with the SC.  Suggested to put it on the o-ran wiki first then decide whether to make it public on the software wiki.
      • North American and Asian session happening this week.
        • Preparation work has been done
        • Tomorrow there will an operator lab tour
        • Orange, Telecom Italia, Geo, and Sprint will be visiting the lab for the plugfest.
        • Tomorrow afternoon we arranged a slot to shoot a video for the MWC video.
        • In the Asian session we prepared 5 integration line.  You can understand it as 5 different sets of test and integration.  
        • 5 sets of demos integration and test.
        • We will demonstrate an online show that will be available to public to watch the demo live.
        • To accomodate time zones morning timeslot will be made convenient to US and afternoon for Europe.
        • Around 200 attendees.
        • Keynotes, test and integration results by the group data gates, and round tables.
        • We also prepared the live broadcast can join via Zoom bridge.
        • Although in Chinese we provide translation
        • Next week will be a deep dive sessions.
        • Anyone who is interested can join us.
        • A lot of attention is being given to the software community.  We need to work with the plugfest attendees how to utilize their feedback and use it.
   3. Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
      • Rittwik - I still have to work on this.
      Action/PTLs update Releasing Amber Tasks  and create a short video like OTF by 29 Nov 2019 
      • Started communicating.
   1. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
      1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
         1. Project Readiness for Amber Release
         2. We are now in the maintenance release.  We are collecting user feedback and entering Jira tickets.  Typically in the maintenance window we don't do new development work.  We typically try to address the technical debt.  This is an opportunity to refine your code.
         3. Project Bronze Release
            • Epics spreadsheet is on the wiki.  Epics have been outlined into high level topics.  They are into termination, platform hardening, database related, xApp chaining.  Each PTL has to go through the list and put it in jira.
            • Each PTL must look this spreadsheet and review. 
            • Contributions 
            • OSC Use Case:Traffic Steering QoE Contributions 
            • Action/ PTLs bring your objectives and interest to the Bronze release calls and get involved.  We need an integrated system so talk to your developers communities, friends, and participants from your companies to get involved to be successful.
      2. user-d3360 Test & Integration Planning (INT)
      3. 1. Maintenance Release
         2. Project Bronze Release
      4. user-d3360 Test & Integration Planning (INT)
         • We will not have TOC meetings the week of December 25 and January 1.  These are U.S. holidays.
         • Concern about PTL participation.  We have to grow the community and work towards and end to end system. 
         • The mission is to have the software work across the system.  T
         • Take this time to improve and accomplish the goals of the project.
         • We will ask each PTL to provide a brief discussion on what each PTL is working on each week.
      5. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
         1. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 
         2. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 
         3. user-a934b O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU)
         4. Sachin Srivastava O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)
         5. Zhimin Yuan O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)
         6. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)
         7. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)
         8. Xiaohua Zhang Infrastructure (INF)
         9. weichen niDocumentation (DOC)
         10. John Keeney Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)
         11. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
      6. user-59b16 Requirements Software Architecture Committee
         • Epics are complete for the Bronze release.
         • Multiple discussions around two use cases.
           • Traffic sharing
           • Healthcheck
         • Rittwik asked about contributions for O-CU.
         • Action/ Jinri Huang provide an answer to user-59b16 regarding support for O-CU, O-DU.  Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
         • Use Samsung as an E2 starter example.
         • Between now and end of year all PTLs must put the epics into Jira.
         • In January the TOC calls should refer Jira tickets.
         • We are ready to release the bronze release document.(Contributions)
         • Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.
         • Martin - suggestion to create one common link.
   2. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
      1. Jinri - 5 minutes to introduce the Asian Plugfest and 3 minutes for the O-RAN F2F 
         1. Next F2F is in Feb 17 - 22 in Paris.  One week after Barcelona meeting.
            1. Daily working sessions with only 3 hours for TOC.  Would like to see more time for TOC added to the agenda.
            2. All these sessions happen in parallel. They are across different working groups.  Before we used to invite our delegates from other WGs to join.  We also want to reach out to have different WGs meet.  Example would be Rittwik attending another working group meeting.
            3. Rittwik
         - Discuss the B release.
         1. 1. only drawback is when TOC is going on you miss the parallel sessions.  
      2. Rittwik - Raise a concern about the low attendance of PTLs for the Bronze release planning.
         1. It is the end of year holiday season so low attendance is expected this time of year.
   3. Planning for Next Meeting
   4. Any Other Business (AOB) 
   5. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
      1. Votes
         1. The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
            1. Vote to approve minutes for 20 Nov 04 Dec 2019 
            2. On motion made by Jinri Huang
            3. Seconded by user-2057eMASAFUMI MASUDA
            4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
         2. The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there was a request to update the audio recording.  Recording updated 04 Dec 2019 
            1. Vote to approve minutes for 27 Nov 2019 
            2. On motion made by Jinri Huang
            3. Seconded by user-2057e
            4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
      2. Actions
         1. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC when you can not attend the TOC meeting.
         Actions
         1. Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski Plugfest and to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video alignment update.
         2. Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
         3. Action/ Jinri Huang provide an answer to user-59b16 regarding support for O-CU, O-DU.  Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
         4. Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.

   
   

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