Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

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2020 01 15

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair		Lusheng Ji
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		Weichen Ni
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda
   Orange	William Diego		Vincent Danno
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar

   *Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  We have a quorum and can vote on activities.

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Release Votes and Approval
6. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
   • MWC (Barcelona)
   • O-RAN Alliance F2F Feb 17-21 (Paris)
   • LF Networking Conference in April (Los Angeles).
   • Feb 3rd deadline for proposal.  Planning on having a small kiosk or booth for demos.
7. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   • Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.
   • Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
   • Action/ Jinri Huang provide an answer to user-59b16 regarding support for O-CU, O-DU.  Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
   • Action/ user-a934b provide a list of functionality that O-CU plans on targeting of where the O-CU is going in the coming releases.  It is a critical piece and will need a roadmap view.  
   • Action/ O-CU and O-DU PTLs and RSAC to get together regarding the end to end steering use case jeopardy. 
   • Action/ Community to address the UE simulator jeopardy on this TOC call.
   • Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.
   • Action/ PTLs participate in the Bronze planning meetings held twice a week by the RSAC committee.  PTLs who are planning to contribute to Bronze must attend.
   • Action/ PTLs pull together a summary of each of the projects and what they plan to deliver in Bronze release.
   • Action/ Tracy Van Brakle post POC plugfest in June to the wiki events page.
8. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
9. 1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. Amber Maintenance Release
      2. Project Bronze Release
   2. user-d3360 Test & Integration Planning (INT)
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 
      2. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 
      3. user-a934b O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU)
      4. Sachin Srivastava O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)
      5. Zhimin Yuan O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)
      6. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)
      7. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)
      8. Xiaohua Zhang Infrastructure (INF)
      9. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)
      10. John Keeney Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)
      11. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
   4. user-59b16 Requirements Software Architecture Committee
10. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
11. Planning for Next Meeting
12. Any Other Business (AOB) 
13. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
    1. Votes
       1. The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
          1. Vote to approve minutes for 18 Dec 2019 
          2. On motion made by weichen ni
          3. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
          4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
    2. Actions
       1. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle will send info to Jack and add the event to our wiki.
       2. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list
       3. Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
       4. Action/ Farheen Cefalu  add to agenda.  Call to Community to address the UE simulator as well as the fact that the test community in O-RAN will have a need for this.  We have our Simulator team that can identify a UE simulator.
       5. Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira
       6. Action/ PTLs participate in the Bronze planning meetings held twice a week by the RSAC committee.  PTLs who are planning to contribute to Bronze must attend.
       7. Action/ PTLs pull together a summary of each of the projects on what they plan to deliver in Bronze release.
       8. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle post POC plugfest in June to the wiki events page.

2020 01 08

Recording: toc-weekly-20191218.mp4

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x	Lusheng Ji
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		Weichen Ni	x
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x
   Orange	William Diego	x	Vincent Danno
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar

   *Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  We have a quorum and can vote on activities.

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
      1. Vote to approve minutes for 18 Dec 2019 
      2. On motion made by weichen ni
      3. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
      4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Release Votes and Approval:
6. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
   1. There is work going on for demos.  Jinri is collecting material.  This is an O-RAN activity.
   2. LF Networking Conference in April.  If people are planning on attending please reach out to Jack or Jinri.  This will be in LA.  Feb 3rd deadline for proposal.  Planning on having a small kiosk or booth for demos.
      1. Tracy - The work we did for the plugfest is on the LFN program this month.  That is not a big event. This is for developers.
         1. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle will send info on LF Networking to Jack and add the event to our wiki.
7. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   • Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.
     • Jinri to send out email.
   • Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
     • There is a press release on O-RAN wiki for this event that went out.  They are waiting for the press release.  The executive committee will let us know in the next two days.  The press release was impressive.
       • We learned a lot captured in Jira tickets.
   • Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
     • Rittwik will meet this week and report out next week.
   • Action/ Jinri Huang provide an answer to user-59b16 regarding support for O-CU, O-DU.  Without commitments from O-CU and O-DU the end to end use cases are in jeopardy.
     • One based on O-RAN services and OAM functions that will form tracks that each release will be improving OAM.  The end to end use case relies heavily on O-CU and O-DU functionality that we can progress in this release.
     • We need to synch up with the PTLs of O-CU and O-DU and the architecture committee to support these use cases.
     • Rittwik - update yesterdays RSAC meeting Ganesh from Radisys this Friday.  He is encouraging O-CU and O-DU come together and identify feasible use cases.
     • This is a high priority and PTLs must work together.  Be modestly aggressive to target this release.  Looking forward to an update next week on these discussions.
     • Rittwik - Setting expectations: when KPIs come to RIC (measurement page) then you do the analytics and then turn it into a traffic steering action as a simple hand off from one cell to another not a real UE.  We need a realy UE simulator component needs to be contributed to understand the hand off.  
     • Action/ Farheen Cefalu  add to agenda.  Call to Community to address the UE simulator as well as the fact that the test community in O-RAN will have a need for this.  We have our Simulator team that can identify a UE simulator.
   • Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira.
     • Jack will start pulling reports from Jira to see the scope of this release.
   • Action/ PTLs participate in the Bronze planning meetings held twice a week by the RSAC committee.  PTLs who are planning to contribute to Bronze must attend.
     • Action/ PTLs pull together a summary of each of the projects on what they plan to deliver in Bronze release.
     • ETE use case is focused on the lower stack but we don't want to ignore the higher level functions.  What use case can drive the work in the non-Realtime RIC.
       • Tracy - O-RAN testing group has a POC plugfest keyed up for the Bronze release.  Plugfest will be end of June 2020.  It's a dynamic 5G multi-operator with first responders.  
       • Action/ Tracy Van Brakle post POC plugfest in June to the wiki events page.
8. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. Amber Maintenance Release
         1. Clean up documentation 
         2. Close Jira issues
         3. After every release we will have a window where a developer can work on the maintenance items.  We're trying to improve what we have done for the Amber release.
         4. Make changes to the Amber branch.  If you need help to trigger the jobs for the Amber maintenance release contact user-d3360
      2. Project Bronze Release
   2. user-d3360 Test & Integration Planning (INT)
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 
      2. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 
         1. No epics yet.  I am having a problem with the healthcheck use case.  There is a meeting with John Ng to meet tomorrow.  
      3. user-a934b O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU)
         1. We have some new committers in the B release.  
            1. Is there a roadmap of the O-CU functionality of how you will add functionality?
            2. Action/ user-a934b provide a list of functionality that you plan on targeting of where the O-CU is going in the coming releases.  It is a critical piece and will need a roadmap view.  
      4. Sachin Srivastava O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)
         1. We are updating the scope for the Bronze release.
      5. Zhimin Yuan O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)
         1. We will be working closely with the ODUHIGH project.
         2. Our plan is to release the binary.  We are reviewing the license.  We need to have a license agreement first. 
         3. Jack will work with the legal team to address the license.
      6. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)
         1. We are working on the healthcheck use case.  We are forming our epics.
      7. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)
         1. Planning to work with OTF team for the Bronze release. 
      8. Xiaohua Zhang Infrastructure (INF)
         1. Working on epics.  Planning to deliver epics next week for Bronze release.  We need to work with O-DU to provide infrastructure.  Please include Xiaohua Zhang for infrastructure.
      9. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)
         1. Think about best practices area.  Read that and give guidance to the team of what your expectations are around the documentation.  To make things usable outside of developers to make it work.  Both the software detailed documentation and how to use the overall system. 
      10. John Keeney Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)
          1. Working on epics.  We plan to tidy up our repo.  There is functionality that should be in other projects such as simulations, and dashboard (OAM).  We will set up sub repos in those repos.
          2. The need for coordination of the SC and O-RAN projects.  IBM is duplicating work.  We plan to look through our roadmap to see where to push those changes.  Whether to O-RAN or O-RAN SC.
             1. Part of the challenge of being new and starting new.  People are confused on coordination.  This raises another discussion about what an SMO is and should we have a project and space to pull together the SMO owrk.  Original agreement was ONAP would be upstream and RAN specific should be here with O-RAN Alliance.  As a community how do we sort out this overlap and now that this community has been established how do we structure the needs.
                1. This is a good conversation to start at the plugfes in Prague.  If we have a slide that explains the division of labor that would be very useful.  I know Vimal worked on something like that.  Jack will talk to Vimal to sort it out
                2. All parties are well aware with Vimal's slides but we want more.
                3. One suggestion ONAP may need to be happening this conversation rather than here.  Trishan de Lanerolle can help get the right people.  
                   1. We have the right people.  We need to coordinate it better.
      11. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
   4. user-59b16 Requirements Software Architecture Committee
      1. O-CU and O-DU teams look at the steering and healthcheck and simulator use cases.
9. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. By Jinri: possible contribution to MWC Barcelona
      1. Can we see what demos are planned?
         1. Paul - This is out on the wiki.
   2. O-ARN Alliance Face to face meeting: 
      1. Jinri: on Monday TSC call, we discussed meeting arrangement but no conclusion yet.  F2F to be held Feb 17-21, Paris. 
10. Planning for Next Meeting
11. Any Other Business (AOB) 
12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
    1. Votes
       1. The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
          1. Vote to approve minutes for 18 Dec 2019 
          2. On motion made by weichen ni
          3. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
          4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
    2. Actions
       1. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle will send info to Jack and add the event to our wiki.
       2. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list
       3. Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
       4. Action/ Farheen Cefalu  add to agenda.  Call to Community to address the UE simulator as well as the fact that the test community in O-RAN will have a need for this.  We have our Simulator team that can identify a UE simulator.
       5. Action/ PTLs enter epics from Contributions into jira
       6. Action/ PTLs participate in the Bronze planning meetings held twice a week by the RSAC committee.  PTLs who are planning to contribute to Bronze must attend.
       7. Action/ PTLs pull together a summary of each of the projects on what they plan to deliver in Bronze release.
       8. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle post POC plugfest in June to the wiki events page.

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