2024-04-16 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

16 Apr 2024

Attendees

• John Keeney(Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• subhash kumar singh (Samsung & OSC AI-ML)
• Byung-Woo Jun (Ericsson & ONAP)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Raviteja Karumuri (Ericsson EST)
• Denis G Noonan (Ericsson EST)
• Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)
• May not have captured a full correct attendee list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2024-04-16 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lores)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Next Week: 23 Apr 2024 Martin Skorupski is not available. John Keeney will start the meeting.
• Two Weeks: 30 Apr 2024 Cancelled. LFN DTF & ONE summit. See below.
  
• Daylight savings switchover in progress. Sorry if there is confusion. Please follow the online calendar!

• Calendar:

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

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

  • See section at top about Daylight Saving Time updates!

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

  • 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
  

• Short meeting this week

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC & OSFG calls last week

• TOC: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • subhash kumar singh is the new AIMLFW PTL - Welcome!
      • Thanks to Joseph Thaliath for all the great collaboration previously
    • Workshop planned to co-locate with ONE summit  29 Apr '24 (afternoon)
      • Agenda etc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KZbyU7MRR66kV9pMrrxHCA4CxcwKOKTStjtOna5jSdI/edit?usp=sharing  
      • https://lfnetworking.org/event/one-summit-2024/ 
      • https://events.linuxfoundation.org/one-summit-north-america/ 
      • https://events.linuxfoundation.org/one-summit-north-america/program/schedule/ 
    • Some discussion on CVE reports for OSC code
      • LF team will come back with info on some scanning that can be enabled.
      • ... but that doesn't fix the issue
        • Should there be CVEs for OSC code at all?
          • Suggesting that there should be some way to flag which functions are intended for actual deplyments / commercially, which would then be eligible for CVE reports?
        • Some of the previously raised CVEs could not be found with automated scanning.
      • If CVEs reports are created, then who has responsibility to fix them - is there a requirement or expectation to fix them?
    • No other major update
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):
    •  Hope to raise CVE topic again.

• OSFG:
  • Not much to report from OSFG this week.

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• OSC NONRTRIC: Release J
• Preparing for OSC meeting/workshop at  ONE summit, and at LFN DTF at the end of Apr.
• Continuing tasks as mentioned previous weeks. 
  • Continue work our new Service Manager function
    
    • Still working on deployment, tests & integration
    • Docker:   o-ran-sc/nonrtric-plt-servicemanager  https://nexus3.o-ran-sc.org/#browse/browse:docker.staging:v2%2Fo-ran-sc%2Fnonrtric-plt-servicemanager%2Ftags%2F0.1.0
    • JIRA: NONRTRIC-944 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • Service manager is now ready to demo again. Hopefully next week.
    • Starting to improve Documentation & Deployment.
    • Lots still to do!
  • Continue work on rApp Manager - as a focal point for tying together alot of other existing activities
    • Working on some sample rApps. e.g. See Release J: Simple rApp using Hello World Microservice
    • Aim to have an updated version in coming weeks
    • Switching over to new Service Manager is ongoing
    • Working on SME & DME integration & improvements
  • Continue maturing the A1-Policy Controller function (ref ONAP) - including a potential new NBI (v3) to achieve R1 alignment
    • Current API will be maintained but deprecated for several releases to come.
    • Making slow but steady progress.
    • New API development ongoing. May be some questions for R1-A1-P spec in March train ... TBC
      
  • Trying to consolidate deployment charts and scripts - currently have multiple versions, with some inconsistencies/differences. Will be ongoing for some time.
  • Still need to get working on a proper A1-Policy Integration test with OSC near-RT-RIC (A1 Mediator)
  • Will need to de-prioritise many of the older less-used NONRTRIC functions - we welcome others in the community to help take these on if interested.
    • Need to study how/if we can achieve R1-DME alignment. Specs continue to diverge from our implementation - with alot of effort need to align.  We welcome contributors to help here.

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Continuing work to refresh simulator's base platform for O1
• Latest spec for OFHM requires TLS certificates - working on this.
  • would still like to support ssh - for simulator deployments
• Added support for Netconf notification when certicicate is going to expire (good for OFHM)
  • But not sure if there is an equivalent VES message or similar for O1.
• Preparing for OSC meeting/workshop at  ONE summit at the end of Apr.

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Working with Taiwan lab for deploying OAM functions
  • e.g. ODL/SDNC GUI auth is more difficult with OAuth ... considering still supporting simple Auth
  • e.g. When specific yang models are exposed it is possible to stop the entire channel ... working on this.

OSC Integration / INT (James Li)

• Working with RICAPP project to come up with a demo/presentation at OSC meeting/workshop at  ONE summit at the end of Apr.
• Documentation of OSC/Powder collaboration ongoing - almost complete?

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• No update this week.
• Meeting notes Meeting notes

RSAC (David Kinsey Rittwik Jana)

• No update this week
• Minutes: RSAC Meetings 

AI/ML platform project (subhash kumar singh )

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• No update this week
• subhash kumar singh is the new PTL
  • Will present more next 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:

• Quick meeting this week!

Meeting ends 15 min