2024-05-28 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

Time & Location:

• Time Change: This meeting is now 1 hour later - 15:00 UTC on Tuesdays
  

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Date

28 May 2024

Attendees

• John Keeney(Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• Varada Varad(Samsung)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Raviteja Karumuri (Ericsson EST)
• Denis G Noonan (Ericsson EST)
• Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)
• Deena Mukundan / Deena M (Tech Mahindra)
• guru raja (Tech Mahindra)
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See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2024-05-28 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lores)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Calendar:

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

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

• Time Change:
  
  • This meeting is now 1 hour later - 15:00 UTC

• 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

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):
    • No update from last week
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):
    •  Hope to raise CVE topic again.
    • Hope to raise SCCL topic again.

• OSFG:
  • No call this week - so no progress to report.
  • Work on whitepaper continues - almost complete

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• OSC NONRTRIC: Release J
• Continuing tasks as mentioned previous weeks:
  • Kicking off Release preparation
    
  • Continue work our new Service Manager function
    • Improving Documentation & deployment scripts etc
    • Lots still to do! Backlog will continue into next release
      
  • 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
    • 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.
      • First version of R1 API implemented
      • Lots of work on testing & benchmarking & documentation
        
  • Still need to get working on a proper A1-Policy Integration test with OSC near-RT-RIC (A1 Mediator)
    • No update from near-RT-RIC team
  • 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)

• Still updating SIM base platform - as per previous weeks.
• Working with Martin Skorupski on O-RU/O-DU

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Working through latest specs from March release
• Lots of work needed for O-RU control via O-DU (with Alex Stancu)
  • Working on demoing/poc-ing a notification from O-RU
  • It looks like O-DU must translate all messages from O-RU & cross spec alignment is then tricky
• Still working on & making progress on Yang Schema Mount (for O-DU to expose O-RU management capabilities)
• Cleaning up Jira tickets for J Release

OSC Integration / INT (James Li)

• No update this week

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• No update this week.

• Meeting notes Meeting notes

• Topology & Inventory Proposal:

  • John Keeney  Hoping to start seed code review this week. Hopefully we can get the seed code into proper repos, and maybe release seed-code version, in time for J-Release
  • First version of seed-code is now being reviewed by Seshu Kumar Mudiganti 

RSAC (David Kinsey Rittwik Jana)

• No update this week
• Minutes: RSAC Meetings 

AI/ML platform project (subhash kumar singh )

• No update this week
• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

ONAP Update (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week

ONAP/OSC Usecases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week.

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• Updates/Questions in NONRTRIC Deena Mukundan Deena M guru raja 
  • Looking at rApp Manager
    
    • Working through deploying sample apps - nearly working now
    • Currently some of the rApps pods are not starting.
  • Questions about relationship between CAPIF & Service Manager
    • John KeeneyLots of work needed to actually enforce exposure & authorization/access-control. Alot of previous demos needed to do parts of this manually, e.g. setting up charts for service publishers & service consumers (esp. rApps)
    • John Keeney Currently working on pre-loading platform services into Service Manager (see upcoming changes in it/dep/nonrtic & it/dep/smo-install charts to preload services into registry & set up API gateway)
    • Would be nice to have a GUI/dashboard for Service Manager, and/or an easier to use API (CAPIF is difficult to use )
  • rApp monitoring?
    • John Keeney There may be some updates coming at O-RAN F2F, perhaps? See O-RAN Alliance wiki to see discussions & drafts.

Meeting ends 32 min