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TOC Voting Members 

Name

Company

Jack Murray Co-Chair

AT&T

Jinri Huang Co-Chair

China Mobile

David Streibl

Deutsche Telekom 

Toshiro Kawahara

NTT DOCOMO

Vincent DannoOrange

Viswa Kumar

Verizon

Available (7)Available (7)
Available (8)Available (8)
Available (9)Available (9)
Available (10)Available (10)
Available (11)Available (11)
Available (12)Available (12)

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



TOC Mail Lists

Mail Lists NameLast WeekThis Week
main@lists.o-ran-sc.org1424
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Agenda

  1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner)
Farheen Cefalu
  1.  
  2. Roll Call

and
  1. & Quorum

Check
  1. Check 

    Company

    Contact NameAttendanceAlternate ContactAttendance

    AT&T

    Jack Murray Co-Chair

x



  1. China Mobile

    Jinri Huang Co-Chair

x



  1. Deutsche Telekom 

    David Streibl

x



  1. NTT DOCOMO

    Toshiro Kawahara

x



  1. Orange

    Vincent Danno

x



  1. Viswa Kumar

x




  1. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meetings
  1. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there was a correction to attendance.  Vince was removed and David Streibl was added. On motion made by David Streibl and seconded by Viswa, the minutes of the May 15, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
  1. Review of Today's Agenda
  2. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business) 
    1. Action / TOC take a vote on the RIC project proposal sent by Tapio Tallgren.
    2. Action / Jinri Huang send a reflector
Review of Today's AgendaAction / Jinri add an email
    1. to highlight O-RAN members to attend the Shanghai f2f
  • What other projects we need to open to kick off our A release.  
  • Add descriptions of 
  • Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
  • Action Farheen remove Registration and Visa letter from Tokyo face to face.
  • Action David Streibl send a note to the community about the color naming convention.
    1. If anyone has other naming conventions other than colors update the wiki page.
    2. How do we decide the name like a poll on the wiki?
    3. Posting a poll is acceptable and anyone and everyone can vote on the poll.
    4. If we don't have any other options we'll use color.  Action/David put a poll for color names for the A release.
  • Action Lusheng share repo changes and committers spreadsheet with Farheen to attach to these minutes.  Repo and committer changes request on today's ToC call.eml.  June 5th is the deadline for seed code contributions.  Action/Lusheng will make a request over the email chain.  Maybe half a dozen to one dozen repos are interested.  Intel, Radisys, Inspur, China Mobile has seed code ready to contribute and they will need the O-RAN licenses in standard plain text.  Phil said he wants to get the Contributors License (CLA).  Phil is out of office this week returning June 4th.  Action / Lusheng will follow up with Phil's contact.  Action / Lusheng contact Rittwik about making a change to the matrix below.

    New Repos and Committers

    Repo

    Description

    Committer Name

    Email

    it/dev

    Various development support tools and artifacts

    Lusheng Ji

    lji@research.att.com

    Daved Korman

    dk3239@att.com

    Chris Lott

    cl778h@att.com

    Zhe Huang

    zhehuang@research.att.com

    ric-plt/xapp-frame

    artifacts for the (near realtime) RIC xapp framework, including common libararies, etc

    Abukar Mohamed

    abukar.mohamed@nokia.com

    Juha Hyttinen

    juha.hyttinen@nokia.com

    Antti Puhakka

    antti.puhakka@nokia.com

    com/golog

    Golang implementation of the common logging library

    Katri Turunen

    katri.turunen@nokia.com

    Roni Riska

    roni.riska@nokia.com

    Heikk Ahola

    heikki.ahola@nokia.com

    ric-plt/utils

    Utilities and common configurations for the (near realtime) RIC Platform

    Matti Hiltunen

    hiltunen@research.att.com

    Tommy Carpenter

    tommy@research.att.com

    Lusheng Ji

    lji@research.att.com

    ric-plt/submgr

    (near-realtime) RIC Platform Subscription Manager

    Peter Szilagyi

    peter.3.szilagyi@nokia.com

    Kalman Nagy

    kalman.nagy@nokia.com

    Bálint Üveges

    balint.uveges@nokia.com

    Viktor Bekesi

    viktor.bekesi@nokia.com

    Update existing Repo's committers

    Repo

    Action

    Name

    Email

    ric-plt/a1

    Add

    Tommy Carpenter

    tommy@research.att.com

    Scott Daniels

    daniels@research.att.com

    Chris Lott

     cl778h@att.com

    ric-plt/lib/rmr

    Add

    Tommy Carpenter

    tommy@research.att.com

    Gueyoung Jung

    gjung@research.att.com

    ric-app/admin

    Delete

    Varun Gupta

    vgupta@research.att.com

    Add

    Raja Sivaraj

    rs405h@att.com

    ric-plt/dbaas

    Add

    Arvo Heinonen

    arvo.heinonen@nokia.com

    (Lusheng update:  LF helpdesk tickets: #75906 and #75705)

  • Action Lusheng provide gerret repo descriptions to LF technical team.
    1. In Progress for new seed code contributors.
      1. meeting following the Tokyo meeting.
      2. Actionuser-2057e send out a poll for a color that begins with "a" for the A release.
      3. Action / user-d3360 will make a request over the email chain about the June 5th deadline.  There is an interest from Intel, Radisys, Inspur, China Mobile to contribute seed code and they will need the O-RAN licenses in standard plain text.
      4. Action  user-d3360 will follow up with Phil's backup regarding the CLA because China Mobile is ready to contribute code.
      5. Action / user-59b16from AT&T is coordinating the Requirements and Software sub-committee meetings.
      6. Action user-59b16invite all the WG chairs to the Requirements and Software Architecture meetings.  One of the principles of TOC is to align the WGs.
      7. Action/ Jun Hyuk Song Send out the corrections you made to the A release requirements document to the reflector (toc@lists.o-ran-sc.org).
      8. ActionFarheen Cefalu update next weeks meeting to two hours.
    1. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
      1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      3. Test & Integration Planning

      4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
    2. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items 

    3. Planning for Next Meeting
    4. Open Discussion
    5. Any Other Business (AOB)
    6. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

    Anchor
    last weeks minutes
    last weeks minutes

    2019 05 29

    Zoom Meeting Recording (Zoom meetings are not uploading to this wiki.  A ticket was opened with Helpdesk linuxfoundation.org #75652)

    Audio only

    Agenda

    1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) 
    2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

    3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meetings
    4. Review of Today's Agenda
    5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
    6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
      1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      3. Test & Integration Planning

      4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
    7. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items 

    8. Planning for Next Meeting
    9. Open Discussion
    10. Any Other Business (AOB)
    11. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

    Minutes

    1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu
    2. Roll Call and Quorum Check

      Company

      Contact NameAttendanceAlternate ContactAttendance

      AT&T

      Jack Murray Co-Chair

      x

      China Mobile

      Jinri Huang Co-Chair

      x

      Deutsche Telekom 

      David Streibl

      x

      NTT DOCOMO

      Toshiro Kawahara

      x

      Orange

      Vincent Danno

      x

      Viswa Kumar

      x


    3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meetings
      1. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by David Streibl and seconded by Vincent the minutes of the May 22, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
        1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
    4. Review of Today's Agenda
      • Action / Jinri send a reflector to highlight O-RAN members to attend the Shanghai f2f meeting.
      • What other projects we need to open to kick off our A release.  
      • Add descriptions of repos.
    5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
      1. Action Farheen remove Registration and Visa letter from Tokyo face to face.
      2. Action David Streibl send a note to the community about the color naming convention.
        1. If anyone has other naming conventions other than colors update the wiki page.
        2. How do we decide the name like a poll on the wiki?
        3. Posting a poll is acceptable and anyone and everyone can vote on the poll.
        4. If we don't have any other options we'll use color.  Actionuser-2057e put a poll for a color for the A release.
      3. Action Lusheng share repo changes and committers spreadsheet with Farheen to attach to these minutes.  Repo and committer changes request on today's ToC call.eml.  June 5th is the deadline for seed code contributions. 

        1. Action / user-d3360  will make a request over the email chain about June 5th deadline.  Maybe half a dozen to one dozen repos are interested.  Intel, Radisys, Inspur, China Mobile has seed code ready to contribute and they will need the O-RAN licenses in standard plain text.  Phil said he wants to get the Contributors License (CLA).  Phil is out of office this week returning June 4th.  Action  user-d3360 will follow up with Phil's backup.  Action / user-d3360  contact user-59b16 about making a change to the matrix below.

          New Repos and Committers



          Repo

          Description

          Committer Name

          Email

          it/dev

          Various development support tools and artifacts

          Lusheng Ji

          lji@research.att.com

          Daved Korman

          dk3239@att.com

          Chris Lott

          cl778h@att.com

          Zhe Huang

          zhehuang@research.att.com

          ric-plt/xapp-frame

          artifacts for the (near realtime) RIC xapp framework, including common libararies, etc

          Abukar Mohamed

          abukar.mohamed@nokia.com

          Juha Hyttinen

          juha.hyttinen@nokia.com

          Antti Puhakka

          antti.puhakka@nokia.com

          com/golog

          Golang implementation of the common logging library

          Katri Turunen

          katri.turunen@nokia.com

          Roni Riska

          roni.riska@nokia.com

          Heikk Ahola

          heikki.ahola@nokia.com

          ric-plt/utils

          Utilities and common configurations for the (near realtime) RIC Platform

          Matti Hiltunen

          hiltunen@research.att.com

          Tommy Carpenter

          tommy@research.att.com

          Lusheng Ji

          lji@research.att.com

          ric-plt/submgr

          (near-realtime) RIC Platform Subscription Manager

          Peter Szilagyi

          peter.3.szilagyi@nokia.com

          Kalman Nagy

          kalman.nagy@nokia.com

          Bálint Üveges

          balint.uveges@nokia.com

          Viktor Bekesi

          viktor.bekesi@nokia.com

          Update existing Repo's committers



          Repo

          Action

          Name

          Email

          ric-plt/a1

          Add

          Tommy Carpenter

          tommy@research.att.com

          Scott Daniels

          daniels@research.att.com

          Chris Lott

           cl778h@att.com

          ric-plt/lib/rmr

          Add

          Tommy Carpenter

          tommy@research.att.com

          Gueyoung Jung

          gjung@research.att.com

          ric-app/admin

          Delete

          Varun Gupta

          vgupta@research.att.com

          Add

          Raja Sivaraj

          rs405h@att.com

          ric-plt/dbaas

          Add

          Arvo Heinonen

          arvo.heinonen@nokia.com

          (Lusheng update:  LF helpdesk tickets: #75906 and #75705)


      4. Action Lusheng provide gerret repo descriptions to LF technical team.
        1. In Progress for new seed code contributors.
      5. Action Farheen Send out a reminder to the TOC to take a vote on finalizing the release calendar.  
      6. The A Release schedule was reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by Jack and seconded by Vincent the "A" release schedule was approved by the TOC members. 
        1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
        1. Jinri - Who is organizing the discussion for the epics?  
          1. The epics will be driven by the Requirements and Architecture subcommittee.
            1. Action / user-59b16from AT&T is coordinating the Requirements and Software sub-committee meetings.
          2. Are there software architecture meetings?  
            1. Next week we will formerly kickoff  one in the evening time in NYC and one is in the morning NYC time.
            2. Jinri - We need to inform Working Groups.  David agrees.  We need to work out how we are going to work with the Alliance.  For example with RIC WG 3, and 2 have to know what is going on in the requirements.
              1. Jinri and Jack are socializing how to leverage WG1 as an interface.  It's going to be hard to build interfaces with every WG.  Could we leverage WG1 as an interface to the broader WG community.
              2. Jinri - Action/Rittwik or Jinri invite all the WG chairs to the Requirements and Software Architecture meetings.  One of the principles of TOC is to align the WGs.  
              3. Viswa - I don't understand. I thought this was already aligned.
                1. Jinri - It is hosted by LF and TOC has to report to the O-RAN community.
                2. Gian Michele Dell'Aera (TIM) please have them sign up asap.
                3. Jack - Many of the software decisions will bubble up to a very terse line.  Key is E1, and E2 specifications.  There will be another package that will provide guidelines.  We will eventually consolidate on the key types like E2 or radio resource management.  There is a lot of other work that won't be pressing such as OA&M  functions.  The things that you need to make the software solution but don't get feature attention.
                4. Viswa - I have added a series of questions.  I find it hard to find via wiki.  
                  1. Have you seen the requirements document yet? 
                    1. No
                    2. We have it posted on the wiki https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/RSAC
                    3. Rittwik will be leading setting up the calls and notifying users.  Lusheng is gathering code contributed by different people and uploaded to gerret.  Seed code has not been approved to be a part of the project.  This code is available to move into the official project for our A release.  In the weeks ahead we will have discussions over whether or not to move the seed code.
                    4. In O-RAN WG8.  How is that different than what we are trying to do here?
                      1. We've had discussions.  WG8 will not generate code.  The emphasis there is more on CU, RU, DU layers than the non RT RIC.  Code will come from O-RAN SC.
                      2. Requiremets & Software Architecture will cover post CU and post DU.
                      3. Jinri - concerned about day after tomorrow we have a TSC call.  Typically in O-RAN Alliance there are three big events.  They usually want to release during these events.  Is it possible to get this completed by NWC North America in September time frame?  
                        1. You can look at the schedule and there is no way to put this in September time frame.  Looking at the schedule this gives us a short development schedule.  We can try to align with Barcelona.  This schedule tends to be the pattern that works.  The original goal was to try to have an impact this year.
                      4. Jun Song (Samsung) We found mistakes on the requirements document.  You can post the document back on the reflector.  Action/Jun Send out the corrections to the reflector.
      7. Action David Tallgren send the proposal to the mail list.  There is a proposal to make the RIC a project in gerret.  RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) under the Apache2 license.
        1. David proposed making RIC a project.  The TOC has the right to create sub-projects in the TOC.  The proposal is to make RIC into an official project.  We have the people from Nokia as proposers for the projects. Sharing official proposal deck.  Scope is this Near RT RIC as a part of release A as the timeline that was accepted.  Nokia will start development work as soon as it's approved.  Hosted in the Akraino REC platform.  We would like to have a gerret repo, jira, wiki space, host a weekly zoom meeting, #RIC, and slack channel.  Nokia has a bunch of committers.  We are proposing  Thoralf Czichy (Nokia) be PTL of the RIC project.   
          1. Could you touch on xApp framework?
            1. The plan is there is at least one demo xapp as part of the RIC project but the actual x-apps are not a part of this effort.
            2. Peter Moonki Hong (Samsung) asked Is this separate development? 
              1. No the main development will transition the seed code to the project and the code would be classified as the project code where the community can move to near RTRIC.  AT&T has been very involved with Nokia.  AT&T has a number of developers also working into the seed repository.  This is a proposal from Nokia and AT&T is very active in this along with the WGs for the requirements and specifications.  The difference with the x-apps will be creating a separate project for the xapp development which will depend on near RTRIC platform and framework.  x-apps will be less about framework and more about RAN.  It will be under a separate Apache license.  
            3. Post questions to the reflector and we will work on getting a wiki page set up.
          2. Action/TOC take a vote on the RIC project.
      8. Action Jack will talk to TOC about extending the
  • Action Farheen Send out a reminder to the TOC to take a vote on finalizing the release calendar. 
  • Action David Tallgren send the proposal to the mail list.  There is a proposal to make the RIC a project in gerret.  RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) under the Apache2 license.
  • Action Jack will talk to TOC about extending the TOC call to 90 minutes as opposed to 60 minutes.
  • Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
    1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
    2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
    3. Test & Integration Planning

    4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
  • New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items 

  • Planning for Next Meeting
  • Open Discussion
  • Any Other Business (AOB)
  • Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
  • Anchorlast weeks minuteslast weeks minutes

    2019 05 22

    Zoom Meeting Recording (Zoom meetings are not uploading to this wiki.  A ticket was opened with Helpdesk linuxfoundation.org #75652)

    Audio Only Recording

    Agenda

    1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) 
    2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 
    3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meetings
    4. Review of Today's Agenda
    5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
    6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
      1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      3. Test & Integration Planning

      4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
    7. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items 

    8. Planning for Next Meeting
    9. Open Discussion
    10. Any Other Business (AOB)
    11. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

    Minutes

    • Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu
    • Roll Call & Quorum Check

    Company

    Contact NameAttendanceAlternate ContactAttendance

    AT&T

    Jack Murray Co-Chair

    x

    China Mobile

    Jinri Huang Co-Chair

    x

    Deutsche Telekom 

    David Streibl

    x

    NTT DOCOMO

    Toshiro Kawahara

    Orange

    Vincent Danno

    x

    Viswa Kumar

    x
    • Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meetings
      • The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there was a correction to attendance.  Vince was removed and David Streibl was added. On motion made by David Streibl and seconded by Viswa, the minutes of the May 15, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
        • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
      • The minutes of the 5/8/19 meeting were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections. On motion made by David and seconded by Vince, the minutes of the May 08, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members.
        • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
  • Review of Today's Agenda
  • Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
    • Action Lusheng post the Rittwik's requirements document master mailing list.
    • Action Farheen share Rittwik's document on the wiki. (Done)
    • Action Farheen talk to Lusheng about gaining access to O-RAN alliance wiki in order to update the events page with the face to face meeting in Tokyo.
    • Is the O-RAN SC community open to people outside of the O-RAN Alliance?
      • Yes, this is open source LF project.  All activities here will occur as an open source project and any one can contribute under Apache2 and we're putting a process in place for you to participate.
    • Action Farheen remove Registration and Visa letter from Tokyo face to face.
    • Action Phil send Jack the acumos non-discriminatory document.
    • Action David Naming of Releases 
      • Colors are promising except for Magenta which is a name of a company. 
      • Action David send a note to the community about the color naming convention.
  • Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
    • Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      • Action Farheen Send out a reminder for the TOC to take a vote on finalizing the release calendar. 
    • Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
    • Test & Integration Planning
      • Jinri - we have to keep the test and integration separated.
        • In this space we will be focusing on operation of the software while they will look at the RAN operations using the software as a key component of what is being delivered to them.
        • Can a non-TOC during the conference call?  How does the open source community align with O-RAN Alliance?  How do the working groups align with each other?  There is no channel of communication between the groups.
          • Jinri - There is an annoucement about the O-RAN face to face.  The TOC will talk on Monday and Wednesday.  For us we haven't drawn the agenda for face to face. We need to figure out how to have the face to face meetings between the WGs.  WG 6, 8, will not be overlapping.  We only have 4 days and 4 meeting rooms.  Every time there will be 4 working groups in parallel.  We may collide with the schedule of WG2 or WG3.  If we think it is important to join working groups I will talk to Amir about joining the working groups in the evening.
    • Report Out of Sub-Committees
      • Requirements and Software Architecture
  • New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
    • Lusheng - Proposed changes to the gerrit repositories.  Updates to committers.  We will need to get the community approval to execute the changes.  From Andrew Grimberg (LF) to Everyone: (08:55 AM) 
FYI LF Release Engineering will take results of votes over the mailing list as valid too
    • Lusheng - reviewed new and updated repositories and committers.
    • Are many of the projects are related to near real time RIC project? Yes  This is seed code.  This gives people to see the activities going on in the seed code space.
    • Action Lusheng share repo changes and committers spreadsheet with Farheen to attach to these minutes.
    • Jinri - I want to understand moving the seed code to project and it's process.  We need to decide what kind of seed code is good enough for the project.
      • O-RAN SC form a project for the RIC that will report up to the TOC and anyone who wants to be involved.
      • The new committers and changes to the repositories.  On motion made by Jack and seconded by Jinri, new committers and repositories was approved by the TOC members. 
        • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
        • Lusheng update: LF helpdesk ticket #75705 and #75906.
      • There are no descriptions for the repos because I have not been given any. 
        • Action Lusheng provide descriptions to LF.  
      • David Tallgren - Permission to add RIC as a new project  
        • Action David Tallgren send the proposal to the mail list.  Proposal is to make the RIC as an O-RAN project.  Start a new project called RAN Intelligent Controller or RIC under the Apache2 license.
      • Jinri - How do you share the alignment between the project and WG3? 
        • The TOC has to figure out.  Individual companies are not funding the O-RAN Alliance is funding the open source community to be formed.  There is software that is not high profile software such as OA&M operations.  So there is a series of activities that need to go on that may not appear to the O-RAN Alliance.  In a release software developers can go so far.  The challenge is to pull together goals that the O-RAN Alliance is asking for as the end goal.  There is a process that will take an incremental path towards those goals.  And if someone wants a function x and no one is willing to write the software x so the community takes a vote.  If the people who want x should gather the resources and step forward and execute on x.
        • The goal is the get the interested parties to develop the features.  Developers and contributors drive the week to week software contributions.  It is a relationship between specifications and developers.  Our goal is to achieve an O-RAN aligned implementation thru developers participation.  We take what O-RAN specifications are in place.  We accept all input from O-RAN and open participants.  We hand it back to the O-RAN Alliance test and they decide if what was developed is aligned with O-RAN Alliance.  We will continue to evolve the standards. 
      • Concern that the release will not meet the WG3 plan.  E2 specifications.
        • Open source does not wait for specifications.  It's highly iterative.  How it works is not defined until the developer starts to make it work.  In the open source space we don't wait.  We build it and propose ideas.  The WG3 will approve or not approve as a compliant implementation.  Documentation is important in the open source approach.  By the end of November you'll have software that may be acceptable or not.  Then you move on to B release.  That's the open source software driven approach. 
      • Rittwik gave a high level description of the release A requirements
        • We will have two meetings.  Both in the evening NYC time to accommodate Europe and Asia.
  • Planning for Next MeetingShould we extend the TOC to 90 minutes? Action Jack will talk to TOC about extending the
      1. TOC call to 90 minutes as opposed to 60 minutes.
      2. Open Discussion
        • The scope of the project.  Does it include the CU, DU, RU Edgeware?  Yes, the names keep changing.  It includes the Non Real Time RIC like ONAP.  It includes the Near Real Time RIC OCU, ODU, what we can do with the ORU.  Open to other ideas that people have to what software tools, or components to round out making the whole O-RAN Alliance specification available to the broader community.  People take the source code.
      3. Any Other Business (AOB)
      4. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.
        • The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there was a correction to attendance.  Vince was removed and David Streibl was added. On motion made by David Streibl and seconded by Viswa, the minutes of the May 15, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
          • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
        • The minutes of the 5/8/19 meeting were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections. On motion made by David and seconded by Vince, the minutes of the May 08, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members.
          • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
        • The new committers and repositories.  On motion made by Jack and seconded by Jinri, new committers and repositories was approved by the TOC members. 
          • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
            1. We will shoot for 2 hours next week.  We will spend more time talking about requirements and the proposal for projects.  We will have a repo structure as a part of the architecture.  We are struggling with getting the O-RAN license approved. My opinion is take DU, there is a lot of implementation of code that people want to do under the O-RAN licensing.  I recommend we create an Apache and O-RAN repo to that project.  This way the framework may not involve the O-RAN licensence.  That way it can be an upstream feed to the O-RAN license and be a complete build.  People should give feedback.  This will allow anyone who wants to know what has been contributed under Apache or O-RAN license.  Action / Farheen update next weeks meeting to two hours.
        1. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
          1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
          2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
          3. Test & Integration Planning

          4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
        2. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items 

          1. Jinri - The week following the Tokyo meeting there will be an O-RAN Symposium June 25 whole day in Shanghai.  It is open to everyone and I encourage everyone to add to the event.  Next week will run this meeting for two hours.  We will start talking about Epics.  So start to think about the epics in the "A" Release.  We will take a poll on naming the releases and we will move forward.
        3. Planning for Next Meeting
        4. Open Discussion
        5. Any Other Business (AOB)
        6. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
          1. The A Release schedule was reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by Jack and seconded by Vincent the "A" release schedule was approved by the TOC members. 
            1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
          2. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by David Streibl and seconded by Vincent the minutes of the May 22, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
            1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
          3. Action/TOC take a vote on the RIC project.
          4. Action / Jinri send a reflector to highlight O-RAN members to attend the Shanghai f2f meeting.
          5. Actionuser-2057e send out a poll for a color that begins with "a" for the A release.
          6. Action / user-d3360 will make a request over the email chain about June 5th deadline.  Maybe half a dozen to one dozen repos are interested.  Intel, Radisys, Inspur, China Mobile has seed code ready to contribute and they will need the O-RAN licenses in standard plain text.
          7. Action  user-d3360 will follow up with Phil's backup regarding the CLA because China Mobile is ready to contribute code.
          8. Action / user-59b16from AT&T is coordinating the Requirements and Software sub-committee meetings.
          9. Action user-59b16invite all the WG chairs to the Requirements and Software Architecture meetings.  One of the principles of TOC is to align the WGs.
          10. Action/ Jun Hyuk Song Send out the corrections on the requirements document to the reflector toc@lists.o-ran-sc.org.
          11. ActionFarheen Cefalu update next weeks meeting to two hours
          • Action Farheen remove Registration and Visa letter from Tokyo face to face.
          • Action David Streibl send a note to the community about the color naming convention.
          • Action Lusheng share repo changes and committers spreadsheet with Farheen to attach to these minutes.
          • Action Lusheng provide gerret repo descriptions to LF technical team.
          • Action David Tallgren send the proposal to the mail list.  Proposal is to make the RIC as an O-RAN project.  Start a new project called RAN Intelligent Controller or RIC under the Apache2 license.
          • Action Jack will talk to TOC about extending the TOC call to 90 minutes as opposed to 60 minutes.

        Chat Summary

        From Jun Song (Samsung) to Everyone: (08:48 AM)
        
RH


        From Andrew Grimberg (LF) to Everyone: (08:55 AM)
        
FYI LF Release Engineering will take results of votes over the mailing list as valid too


        From Peter Moonki Hong to Everyone: (09:04 AM)
        
seems time is up, but I would like to leave some questions to O-RAN TOC for clarifying several stuff from open source perspectives. O-RAN SC is an open source project hosted by LF and will be releases under Apache2.o license. In the meantime, there is O-RAN Specification Code Project and it will rease the code under a different source code license, if I am undersrading correctly. What is the relationship between O-RAN SC and SCP and what is a role of TOC for dealing with them?


        From Viswa ( Verizon ) to Everyone: (09:05 AM)
        
dropping for another call. thank you


        From Peter Moonki Hong to Everyone: (09:06 AM)
        
And who can be a "Contributor" in ORAN SCP? any open source developers? or developers of O-RAN Alliance members?
Thank you in advance.

        From TSC Zoom to Everyone: (09:07 AM)
        
probably we could answer peter 's question offline


        From Andrew Grimberg (LF) to Everyone: (09:08 AM)
        
Anyone that has an LFID is potentially a contributor. IIRC we aren't requiring CLAs and just DCO so there's no barrier of needing someone to sign either a Corporate CLA or an Individual CLA before they can contribute. Just login and start contributing
DCO == Signed-off-by line in the commit message footer
CLA == Contributor Licsense Agreement


        From Peter Moonki Hong to Everyone: (09:09 AM)
        
SCP is also under Apache2.0 license?
        From Lusheng Ji to Everyone: (09:12 AM)
        
@Peter SCP is not under Apache 2. It is under a different license O-RAN Software License

        From Peter Moonki Hong to Everyone: (09:13 AM)
        
Yahh that is my understanding as well. Then SCP is under SC?
or under O-RAN Alliance?

        From Jun Song (Samsung) to Everyone: (09:16 AM)
        
RH

        From Lusheng Ji to Everyone: (09:16 AM)
        
SCP and SC are sister projects under Linux Foundation. They have the same relationship W.R.T. O-RAN Alliance. They (will) share a lot of resources in LF but under different software licenses.


        From Peter Moonki Hong to Everyone: (09:17 AM)
        
Okay, now I get it. Thank you for your kind information.


        From Lusheng Ji to Everyone: (09:17 AM)
        
You are welcome.

        From Peter Moonki Hong to Everyone: (09:20 AM)
        
need to drop off. thank you for all kind information.

        From Farheen Cefalu (AT&T) to Everyone: (09:36 AM)
        https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/RSAC?preview=/1179968/3604507/O-RAN%20SC%20Ver%20A%20SW%20Requirements%2020190520a.docxmain@lists.o-ran-sc.org
Please send the requirements proposals to main@lists.o-ran-sc.org

        From Jun Song (Samsung) to Everyone: (09:39 AM)
        
RH


        From David (DT) to Everyone: (09:44 AM)
        
Sorry, have to go to other meeting
          1. .

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