2024-07-16 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

16 Jul 2024

Attendees

• John Keeney(Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• subhash kumar singh (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Raviteja Karumuri (Ericsson EST)
• Denis G Noonan (Ericsson EST)
• Srinivanas Yanamadala (Tech Mahindra)
• Varada Varad (Samsung)
• Deena M (Tech Mahindra)
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See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2024-07-16 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):
    • New RSAC co-chair - Congrats Martin Skorupski!
    • New PTL for INT project - Congrats fransiscus bimo !
    • OSC will start using Slack - will pass on details when we know more.
    • OSC and ONAP wikis will move to a centrally located/hosed Confluence site (atlassian.net)
      • Possible issues:
        • Links will break, esp cross-site links (where full url is given - e.g. this meeting's minutes page urls: https://wiki.onap.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=231407794 & )
        • User accounts need to be mapped or re-created on Atlassian cloud site - and people may already have accounts there that are difficult to map to LF-ID etc.
        • It is likely that recordings/ demos/ presentations / documents etc stored in current wiki may become unavailable?
      • Hopefully LF will be able to work around some of these issues.
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):
    • No major topic planned yet (AFAIK)

• OSFG:
  • Cancelled this week.
  • Will discuss demos for next F2F.
    
    • Want more demos - similar to request from OSC TOC
    • Will look at several projects, e.g. OSC, SRSRAN, OAI, nephio, and lots of others

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• A1-Controller NBI Issues:
  • WG2 R1 spec for Nov release changes from March version (not backwards-compatible)
    • May pull/remove the recent ONAP New Delhi & OSC J-Release versions of A1-Policy Management Service - which implements the Mar'24 version of the spec.
    • May move direct to Nov'24 version - currently been voted on in O-RAN Alliance WG2 as Maintenance-/ Bug-Fix-Release in next few weeks.
    • Do not want to support a version that has only been released for a couple of weeks then immediately deprecated.
    • May cause disruption to users that have already adopted the New-Delhi or J-Release versions
• Service Manager
  • Still working on adding boot-strap service exposures at SMO start-up - but its proving a bit more difficult than expected.
  • Manual registration via API is still working fine - but currently all Services need to be explicitly registered rather than auto-registered.
  • Hope to have a working solution soon.
• Working to improve API documentation generation from OpenAPI defns.
• Release K Planning:
  • No major update this week ... but will continue with more focus on demonstrators - esp aiming towards next F2F
• subhash kumar singh Hope to get started soon on integrated demo with AIMLFW & NONRTRIC
  • Can discuss more this week - and more discussion at RSAC next week.

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Still working on Heirachical OAM models, e.g. O-DU → O-RU)
  • Hope to demo at next F2F
  • https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/SIM/Hierarchical+OAM+functions+Use+Case
• last week:
  • Working on Python O1 & OFH M-Plane simulators
    • Still on track & ongoing

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Implementation for std-defined Alarms is now ready.
  • Ref: last week:
    
    • O-DU team would like to support std-defined alarms - but not showing up in SDN-R - so updates needed for SDN-R/ODLUX (to get events from kafka)
      
      • (newAlarms, clearedAlarms)

OSC Integration / INT (fransiscus bimo )

• No update this week
• Unfortunately Bimo cannot make this meeting time, but meets regularly with Martin Skorupski 
  • Updates will be reported back here.

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• No update this week.

• Meeting notes Meeting notes

• Topology & Inventory John Keeney :

  • Working to add new/improved models
    
    • e.g. Cloud Model placeholder at:
      • https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-smo-teiv/en/latest/data-models-guide.html
      • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=smo/teiv.git;a=tree;f=teiv/src/main/resources/models
    • Want/ Need community engagement to use/experiment wilth models to help accelerate standardisation in WG10.
  • Working to add support for grouping/collection in registry & api
  • Working to add tagging/classifiers/decorators to help markup & expressive retrieval of data from TEIV
  • Need to start working with others in OSC & beyond to help populate TEIV regstry with data from their 'sources of truth'
  • Hope to make alot of use of TEIV in demos/rapps in K-Release

RSAC (Rittwik Jana  Martin Skorupski )

• Congrats to Martin Skorupski - Now co-chair of RSAC - taking over from David Kinsey 
• 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

• Still working on K-Release planning
• Similar to last week: Still understanding NONRTRIC SME & rApp manager
  • Last week: How to use/embed an Ml-Model in an rApp?
    • John Keeney Spec is very unclear how rApps use ML models or the AI-ML-Platform / model store.
    • Pre-spec implementation of NONRTRIC rApps can use KServe ML models - where KServe-wrapped ML Models can be LCM'ed as part of rApp LCM
      • Ref: Sample rApp: https://github.com/o-ran-sc/nonrtric-plt-rappmanager/tree/master/sample-rapp-generator/rapp-kserve 
      • Can be used/LCM'ed using rApp Manager: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-nonrtric-plt-rappmanager/en/latest/ & Release J: rApp Manager
• See above - NONRTRIC re planning for Demos etc at F2F

ONAP Update (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week

ONAP/OSC Usecases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week.

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• None this week

Meeting ends 34 min