2023-12-12 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

Time & Location:

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Date

12 Dec 2023

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• James Li (CMTI & OSC INT)
• Denis G Noonan (Ericsson EST)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Rohith Rajneesh  (Ericsson EST)
• Varada Varad (Samsung)
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See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2023-12-12 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Last meeting this year - Looking forward to 2024 !
  
• Upcoming Meetings:
  • 2023-12-19 cancelled
    
  • 2023-12-26 canceled
  • 2024-01-02 canceled
  • 2024-01-09 canceled
    
  • 2024-01-16

• Calendar:

  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

  • https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-meetings/calendar

• OSC SMO project calls now move to its own time slot - alternate Thursdays - TBC
  

  • See OSC RSAC Calendar: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/RSAC/calendars

  • See also OSC Meetings calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

  • (Note this meeting to open to anyone, including non-ORAN members)

  • We will maintain this slot for ONAP Alignment, and try flag issues/question to/from SMO meetings.

  • See OSC SMO Project meeting notes

• See also OSC AIML Project meeting notes

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call last week

• https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • All PTLs update Release I information
    • All PTLs should update wikis & start ORAN Spec compliance
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):
    • No update.

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• Release I ongoing: images, documentation, wiki, branching
• Service Exposure Manager - Started - New function pulling together previous work.
  • Will not deliver in this release
    
• Finalizing rApp manager for first release in Release I.
  • First version ready for release.
  • Alot more work to do!
• Pairwise test A1 Policy functions in near-RT-RIC & NONRTRIC
  • Some changes in A1-Mediator in near-RT-RIC plt in H-Release & I-Release.
    • Working fine now in our function tests,
      
    • Discovered some issue. Hopefully we can get the pairwise tests working for I-Release
  • Working on Pairwise test for Integration environment -
    • Working with James Li & Naman Gupta to get hw-go xApp working in test env.
      • A1 Policy Type retrieval doesn't work correctly. Investigations ongoing
    • Working on test script - will know more when internal function tests work better / verified.
• Work starting in O_RAN WG2 on on R1-AI-P - defining R1 SMOS interface for A1-Policy Management.
  • Will then evolve OSC/ONAP A1-PolicyManagementService to implement this once it becomes clearer. Release J.

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Wrapping up I Release

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Martin Skorupski not available this week
• No update this week.

OSC Integration / INT (James Li)

• No major update this week. James Li Alot of travelling/conferences in recent weeks.
• Everything seems OK for I-Release.
• Integration activities in Taiwan lab making good progress.

O-DU Vidhu Shekhar Pandey)

• No update this week

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• No update this week.
• Meeting notes Meeting notes

RSAC (David Kinsey Rittwik Jana)

• No update this week
• Minutes: RSAC Meetings 
• Hope to demo NONRTRIC rApp Manager at RSAC call this week.
  • Similar to demo at this meeting a few weeks ago, with very latest updates added.
    • 2023-11-21 NONRTRIC rAppManager Demo

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

• Calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

• Interesting work from Taiwan team presented at this week's meeting. See Recording,
• No other update this week

ONAP Update (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week

ONAP/OSC Usecases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week.

Disaggregated SMO Flows (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• Since this is last meeting this year - Happy new year - Looking forward to a great 2024 !
• Thank you for your great engagement this year!

Meeting ends 15 min