Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

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2020 02 19

Recording: 

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	x	Weichen Ni
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda		Anil Umesh
   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 12 Feb 2020 
      2. On motion made by Jinri Huang
      3. Seconded by user-2057e
      4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
4. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. Open Data Set
5. Release Votes and Approval
   1. Outstanding request from Thoralf, Matti, and John Keeney for a new repos
   2. John Keeney  wants to rename his repo.
      
      1. https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC/Outstanding+Resource+Requests+for+Linux+Foundation

      2. Repo requests: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/184 https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/194 https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/191
6. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
   1. MWC (Barcelona)
   2. O-RAN Alliance  Feb 17-21 (Paris) F2F canceled and now virtual meeting schedule published
   3. ONES = LF Networking Conference in April (Los Angeles).  Open Networking & Edge Summit Event
 
      1. Action / Farheen Cefalu update the Events page with the updated virtual meetings.
7. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action / Jinri Huang Open Data Set
   2. O-RAN Alliance spec license restriction for ASN.1 spec (raised by Thoralf)
      1. Jack has been talking to Stephan (O-RAN Alliance lawyer) to address the O-RAN Specification copyright in the O-RAN SC.  There are discussions going on an alliance with TIP and with TMC. 
         1. From 3GPP we have submitted several requests about copyright usage.  We've submitted requests twice and they've come back for more clarification.  We are working through the standards groups to get done.
   3. O-RAN Alliance spec license restriction for Yang model (raised by Martin)
      1. Jack: Is it a copyright issue?
         1. Martin: Yes, not clear how to use 3GPP data models 
            1. 3GPP models are broken from syntax and how can we fix them?  By working group 1 license statement. Latest ask by 3GPP is still not addressing our needs.  Next version coming out in March is not useful and I can'tuse them in the Bronze.
               1. Are you using them as a baseline?
                  1. We have modified once and found we are not allowed to modify.
                  2. We demonstrated at one event but I can not share the modeified ones with the public.
                  3. Likelihood high that all has to be modified and tested.
                  4. Clear statement that O-RAN Alliance should use and influence 3GPP but 3GPP is not used in the software community.
                  5. Any comments or thoughts?
                     1. Tracy: Thinks this topic will be discussed during WG1 modeling discussion at 5PM EST today.  The goal is to getting this resolved but it's organizationally complicated across 3GPP and the O-RAN Alliance.  
                     2. Martin: I am careful in selecting to avoid future issues.
                  6. Jack: There needs to be an abstraction layer.  Once solved every time there is a change to the system doesn't it have to cascade through these layers. 
                     1. Martin: The model was supposed to be the abstraction layer you will have a model on a model with a 1:1 relationship.
                        1. Jack: We're running into problems because we're tying to specifications that were never validated.
                           1. Martin: That is why I am selecting young data models.  But the RAN specific stuff will be problematic.
   4. Action/ user-d3360  send a reminder to the PTLs to update their projects Architecture page within on their wiki pages (near-RT RIC: done, ...)
      
      1. Reminder sent.  Jack will verify progress.
   5. Action/ PTLs get your F2F slide decks ready.  Due 07 Feb 2020 
   6. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.
      1. Waiting for action by Viswa
   7. Action/ Jinri Huang  Tracy Van Brakle  suggested speak with Paul about the demos at ONES.
      1. We will be notified on 03 Mar 2020 

   8. Action/ user-59b16 talk to Jack to send out an email to the new TOC members; Nokia, Ericsson, and Radisys

   9. Action/ Rittwik set up a time with Jack and Radisys to discuss Jira and their needs.

      1. closed

   10. Action/ user-59b16 update TSC with the short/long term UE simulator support.  

       1. Rittwik: initial meeting done, waiting on hearing what Viavi can bring to the community.  will follow up with Viavi.   Need a Packer Core simulator, UE simulator, RAN simulator, Viavi has all.  Really need the full suite of simulator to complete simulating UE actions.
       2. Jack: will pick up in future meetings, May create a track under integration and testing to continue.  what to be done here what under TFIG.
   11. Action/ TOC we need a test coordinator with the O-RAN test group so we can come up with a common plan between the test groups.
       1. Jack: We need to interface with the test group so that we have coordination.  Not doing test plans.  
          1. David (DT) will reach out to someone he knows and let the TOC know next week. 
          2. William DIEGO  will talk to the focus group.
             1. Jack: it won't be as extravagant as the test group has. 
   12. 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.
       1. Rittwik: KPI Mon xApp requests certain metrics coming form O-CU. 
       2. Yingying: O-CU will focus on U plane.  No contribution on RRC part.  UE attachment will be a problem in B release.  E2 still under discussion with main contributor.  E2 will be discussed in following weeks in WG8
          
       3. Jung/Rittwik: O-CU not advanced enough to provide enough metrics to support traffic steering.  Fallback plan needed, enhancing E2 simulator to provide enough support.  Can SIM project support this?  Otherwise traffic steer is in jeopardy. O-DU has a plan to support.  But need O-CU support as well.  Need ToC decision on the fallback plan.
          
       4. CoChairs: Construct document for what's missing.  Is this possible in Cherry or even further out?
       5. Rittwik:  RSAC to provide document on what's current, what's future, suggesting alternatives.
       6. Jack: It will be  a weak message if this cannot be supported.
       7. Second use case (healthcheck) Non-RT RIC making progress
       8. Action: Allocate a time slot next week to discuss.
          1. We will have the GUI meeting in an hour
             1. The challenge is this is around he ETE use case traffic steering and how it will work with O-CU and O-DU development. 
   13. Action / PTLs Update your section of the Bronze Release (Jun 2020).  Convey to people outside what we're going to do in this release.
       1. Lusheng: reminder sent.  only three projects which have not completed yet.
          
       2. Jack: Need to be done by Friday.
   14. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle send the URL of where on the wiki you posted the POC plugfest through lists.o-ransc.org.  
       1. Tracy will double check the O-RAN-SC wiki.  
   15. Community asked for a release manager.
       1. Jack: will keep looking for an option.
          1. Tracy - we'll have a call with David McBride who has served as release manager for many LF projects.  He is a part of LF.  He works on ONAP and ODL.
8. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. Project Bronze Release
         1. Action/ PTLs be prepared to discuss Development sprint 1 demos.
         2. Lusheng: For dev sprint 2 we will have a demo.  Asking PTLs to prepare for post sprint demos.  Lusheng will send out Jira tickets and coordinate.
   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. list of draft epics: use this JIRA filter as per Jira usage conventions. Seven subteams now analyze this draft.
         2. Traffic steering derived JIRA epics: filter (2 of 4 are currently in Bronze) // Health-check derived JIRA epics: filter . Already sure that not all will fit in Bronze.
            
      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
9. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Someone mentioned a TOC meeting.  When was that scheduled?  
      1. Jack: We had Tuesday, Thursday, Thursday.  I don't have the time for the Monday meeting.
      2. John Keeney Can someone add some slides to do offline reading?  It will be helpful.
      3. Jack will talk to Jinri
10. Planning for Next Meeting
11. Any Other Business (AOB) 
12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2020 02 12

Recording: toc-20200212-audio_only.m4a

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Lusheng Ji

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	Y	Lusheng Ji
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	Y	Weichen Ni
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl		Ondřej Hudousek
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	Y	Anil Umesh
   Orange	William Diego	Y	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. Moved by Jinri, Seconded by William, passed.
4. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. Jung requested item on discrepancy between WG3 and Near RT RIC PLT: added item 9.a
   2. Jinri requested  item on Open Dataset project: added item 9.b
5. Release Votes and Approval
   1. None
6. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
   1. MWC (Barcelona): AT&T will not attend; China Mobile will not attend; NTT will not attend. 
      
   2. O-RAN Alliance F2F Feb 17-21 (Paris): F2F may be cancelled or changed to virtual.
      
   3. ONES = LF Networking Conference in April (Los Angeles).  Open Networking & Edge Summit Event
 
7. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/ user-d3360 Ask PTLs to update the Status column on Amber Maintenance (Feb, 2020) page.
      1. Closed
   2. Action/ user-d3360  send a reminder to the PTLs to update their projects Architecture page within on their wiki pages (near-RT RIC: done, ...)
      
      1. Reminder sent.  Jack will verify progress.
   3. Action/ PTLs get your F2F slide decks ready.  Due 07 Feb 2020 
      1. Jinri: alternative plan is work in progress, no decision yet.  If virtual, will mimic the schedule of f2f meeting. 
   4. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.
      1. Waiting for action by Viswa
   5. Action/ Jinri Huang  Tracy Van Brakle  suggested speak with Paul about the demos at ONES.
      1. Tracy: Ericsson et. al. submitted panel discussion proposal for sharing 2019Dec PoC results and plan for 2020Jun PoC.
      2. Closed (will update community after LF result)

   6. Action/ user-59b16 talk to Jack to send out an email to the new TOC members; Nokia, Ericsson, and Radisys

   7. Action/ Rittwik set up a time with Jack and Radisys to discuss Jira and their needs.

      1. closed

   8. Action/ user-59b16 update TSC with the short/long term UE simulator support.  

      1. Rittwik: initial meeting done, waiting on hearing what Viavi can bring to the community.  will follow up with Viavi.   Need a Packer Core simulator, UE simulator, RAN simulator, Viavi has all.  Really need the full suite of simulator to complete simulating UE actions. 
      2. Jack: will pick up in future meetings, May create a track under integration and testing to continue.  what to be done here what under TFIG.
   9. Action/ TOC we need a test coordinator with the O-RAN test group so we can come up with a common plan between the test groups.
      1. CoChairs: Invitation also extended to the 3 upcoming new ToC members as well.
      2. Jack: The only way to ensure software aligned as intended is through testing.  This is important.
   10. 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.
       1. Rittwik: KPI Mon xApp requests certain metrics coming form O-CU. 
       2. Yingying: O-CU will focus on U plane.  No contribution on RRC part.  UE attachment will be a problem in B release.  E2 still under discussion with main contributor.  E2 will be discussed in following weeks in WG8
          
       3. Jung/Rittwik: O-CU not advanced enough to provide enough metrics to support traffic steering.  Fallback plan needed, enhancing E2 simulator to provide enough support.  Can SIM project support this?  Otherwise traffic steer is in jeopardy. O-DU has a plan to support.  But need O-CU support as well.  Need ToC decision on the fallback plan.
          
       4. CoChairs: Construct document for what's missing.  Is this possible in Cherry or even further out?
       5. Rittwik:  RSAC to provide document on what's current, what's future, suggesting alternatives.
       6. Jack: It will be  a weak message if this cannot be supported.
       7. Second use case (healthcheck) Non-RT RIC making progress
       8. Action: Allocate a time slot next week to discuss.
   11. Action / PTLs Update your section of the Bronze Release (Jun 2020).  Convey to people outside what we're going to do in this release.
       1. Lusheng: reminder sent.  only three projects which have not completed yet.
          
       2. Jack: Need to be done by Friday.
   12. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle send the URL of where on the wiki you posted the POC plugfest through lists.o-ransc.org.  
   13. Community asked for a release manager.
       1. Jack: will keep looking for an option.
8. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. 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) 
         1. Repo requests on mailing list from RICAPP and Non RT RIC
      2. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 
         1. How to use ASN1 spec from O-RAN Alliance, due to its restrictive licensing requirements. 
            1. Martin: same problem for OAM, yang model from O-RAN Alliance is not open.
            2. Jack: on-going with O-RAN Alliance legal on permissions.  To add agenda item next week (added as 10.a and 10.b)
               
      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
9. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Jung: WG3 co-chairs, discrepancy between Near RT RIC PLT and WG3.  WG3 completed E2 spec R1, approval coming this week.  R2 work starts immediately after, to be complete by 3Q20.  Bronze (end of 2Q20) will be E2 R1 or E2 R2 pre-release?  How to support traffic steering because needed features not in R1.
      1. Jack: if R2 completes by 3Q, it will not be in Cherry because it misses planning window.  Need more structured naming since as minor versioning.  Features may be available at minor revisions. 
      2. Jung: there should be a regular channel to exchange requirements. 
      3. CoChairs: OSC have people attending WG3 regularly.  Rarely get feedback from WG3.  We need more feedback from WG3
      4. Jung: Need written feature request.
      5. Jack: Need a table for communicating the structure, which version of spec / feature to implement.  Also need firm dates on when the spec is needed by to be included in an OSC release.
   2. Jinri: Open dataset
      
10. Planning for Next Meeting
    1. O-RAN Alliance spec license restriction for ASN.1 spec (raised by Thoralf)
    2. O-RAN Alliance spec license restriction for Yang model (raised by Martin)
       
11. Any Other Business (AOB)
12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

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2020 02 05

Recording: 2020-02-05-toc.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		Lusheng Ji	x
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x	Weichen Ni
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   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 29 Jan 2020 
      2. On motion made by Masafumi Masuda
      3. Seconded by William DIEGO
      4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Release Votes and Approval
   • Maintenance window closed last Saturday.  Lusheng asked PTLs to update their information.  
   • Action/ user-d3360 Ask PTLs to update the Status column on Amber Maintenance (Feb, 2020) page.
   • Is there a doc meeting required for the maintenance release?
     • The docs project will automatically update the documentation.
   • Except for the Amber Maintenance (Feb, 2020) updates the maintenance release is complete?
     • Bug fixes.
     • Unfinished features had an opportunity to be completed.
   • Motion made by user-d3360 to approve the Amber maintenance release on 05 Feb 2020 
     • Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
     • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
6. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
   1. MWC (Barcelona)
      1. Jinri - More about O-RAN Alliance demo.
         1. for this year O-RAN Alliance will have 23 demos which will be scattered from different sponsors.  This is a large number considering O-RAN Alliance opened it's membership 1.5 years ago.  It already had 150 members.  There are 26 operator members.
         2. O-RAN does not have it's own dedicated booth.
   2. O-RAN Alliance F2F Feb 17-21 (Paris)
      1. Jinri - will have to leave in 10 minutes for an adhoc TSC meeting regarding the current tense situation caused by the Corona virus in China. The F2F may be changed to an online virtual meeting or have the attendees meet remotely.
      2. For the TOC meeting Agenda 
         1. Take an opportunity to introduce our Bronze release.
         2. Require the PTLs to bring their project status report for the discussion.  PTLs can introduce additional functionality in order to support the Bronze release.  What is the current status, challenges, and architecture.
         3. Bring your alignment with the working groups in particular WG3.
         4. Jinri will bring brief TSC reports from TOC.
         5. When and where will we know about the decision about the F2F.

         6. Do we simply point to the Jira tickets or should we have a slide deck?

            1. Slide decks are preferred because they will distributed to other O-RAN Alliance WGs.  This is a good opportunity to share your accomplishments with the WG.  Looking for design, timeframe, challenges, and most importantly WG alignment.

            2. Two weeks to go for F2F so we need to prepare.

         7. Action/ PTLs get your F2F slide decks ready.  That is in 3 days.

   3. ONES = LF Networking Conference in April (Los Angeles).  Open Networking & Edge Summit Event
 
      1. Ericsson submitted a proposal for a panel discussion that will discuss the results in Amber plugfest.  Confident that the proposal will be accepted.  We are trying to get visibility for OSC-Amber and get everybody excited about OSC Bronze.
      2.  Jinri Huang  Tracy Van Brakle  suggested speak with Paul about the demos at ONES.
7. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)

   1. Action/ Farheen - Get the information from Jack and put it on the events page of the wiki.

   2. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.

   3. Action/ Thoralf Czichy update the TOC with the new Nokia TOC members.

   4. Action/ user-59b16 talk to Jack to send out an email to the new TOC members; Nokia, Ericsson, and Radisys.

   5. Action/ Rittwik set up a time with Jack and Radisys to discuss Jira and their needs.

   6. Action/ user-59b16 update TSC with the short/long term UE simulator support.  

      1. He has been talking to members regarding feasibility but not sure if he has gotten commitment for it.
      2. ENGWEI KOO - user-59b16 asked Engwei to join.  We created a slide to better understand the UE simulator.
      3. Shared a high-level slides.
         1. We are looking for the O-DU, O-CU generating messages to the real time RIC.
         2. Engwei - Are you looking for OCU simulator that's connected to 
         3. We need emulator UE KPIs that represent the RF signal strengths of neighbors so we can predict based on signal strength whether the UE quality of experience from a neighbor or serving cells.  We need those measurements and KPIs.  Cell utilization metrics are also needed.  
         4. Engwei set up a call with user-59b16

   7. Action/ TOC we need a test coordinator with the O-RAN test group so we can come up with a common plan between the test groups.

   8. 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.

   9. Action/ All PTLs take Martin's alarm template and fill out your own components alarms.Take a look at the template and fill out what you can.  If you don't have information then let Martin know.

      1. PTLs provide general or any kind of alarms 

   10. Action / On the Bronze release page update their table.  A few have but I would like everyone to begin filling out their tables.  Convey to people outside what we're going to do in this release.

   11. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle post POC plugfest in June to the wiki events page.

       1. Readout June 25 and as we get closer we'll have a project plan.  We are focusing on two first responder scenarios.  Tracy posted the slides on the wiki.
       2. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle send the URL for the POC plutfest through lists.o-ransc.org.  

   12. Action/ PTLs update Architecture pages.

       1. user-d3360  send out a reminder to PTLs.
8. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. Amber Maintenance Release - is closed
      2. Project Bronze Release
         1. Working with LF on the CI/CD pipeline.  Contact user-d3360 if you have trouble with the CI/CD pipeline.  Jenkins server has been acting up.
   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. list of draft epics: use this JIRA filter as per Jira usage conventions. Seven subteams now analyze this draft.
         2. Traffic steering derived JIRA epics: filter (2 of 4 are currently in Bronze) // Health-check derived JIRA epics: filter . Already sure that not all will fit in Bronze.
            
      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
9. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Intel contributions - Jack is working with legal issues with binary contributions. C++ compiler to build G++ for Amber.  The G++ performance is not as high as Intel.
   2. Formalizing structure for release management.
   3. We need a release manager.
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 29 Jan 2020 
          2. On motion made by Masafumi Masuda
          3. Seconded by William DIEGO
          4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
       2. Motion made by user-d3360 to approve the Amber maintenance release on 05 Feb 2020 
          • Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
          • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
    2. Actions
       1. Action/ user-d3360 Ask PTLs to update the Status column on Amber Maintenance (Feb, 2020) page.
       2. Action/ PTLs get your F2F slide decks ready.  Due 07 Feb 2020 
       3. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.
       4. Action/ Jinri Huang  Tracy Van Brakle  suggested speak with Paul about the demos at ONES.

       5. Action/ user-59b16 talk to Jack to send out an email to the new TOC members; Nokia, Ericsson, and Radisys.

       6. Action/ Rittwik set up a time with Jack and Radisys to discuss Jira and their needs.

       7. Action/ user-59b16 update TSC with the short/long term UE simulator support.  

       8. Action/ TOC we need a test coordinator with the O-RAN test group so we can come up with a common plan between the test groups.
       9. 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.
       10. Action / PTLs Update your section of the Bronze Release (Jun 2020).  Convey to people outside what we're going to do in this release.
       11. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle send the URL of where on the wiki you posted the POC plugfest through lists.o-ransc.org.  
       12. Action/ user-d3360  send a reminder to the PTLs to update their projects Architecture page within their spaces on the wiki.
       13. Community asked for a release manager.

2020 02 05

Recording: 2020-02-05-toc.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		Lusheng Ji	x
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x	Weichen Ni
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   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 29 Jan 2020 
      2. On motion made by Masafumi Masuda
      3. Seconded by William DIEGO
      4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Release Votes and Approval
   • Maintenance window closed last Saturday.  Lusheng asked PTLs to update their information.  
   • Action/ user-d3360 Ask PTLs to update the Status column on Amber Maintenance (Feb, 2020) page.
   • Is there a doc meeting required for the maintenance release?
     • The docs project will automatically update the documentation.
   • Except for the Amber Maintenance (Feb, 2020) updates the maintenance release is complete?
     • Bug fixes.
     • Unfinished features had an opportunity to be completed.
   • Motion made by user-d3360 to approve the Amber maintenance release on 05 Feb 2020 
     • Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
     • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
6. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
   1. MWC (Barcelona)
      1. Jinri - More about O-RAN Alliance demo.
         1. for this year O-RAN Alliance will have 23 demos which will be scattered from different sponsors.  This is a large number considering O-RAN Alliance opened it's membership 1.5 years ago.  It already had 150 members.  There are 26 operator members.
         2. O-RAN does not have it's own dedicated booth.
   2. O-RAN Alliance F2F Feb 17-21 (Paris)
      1. Jinri - will have to leave in 10 minutes for an adhoc TSC meeting regarding the current tense situation caused by the Corona virus in China. The F2F may be changed to an online virtual meeting or have the attendees meet remotely.
      2. For the TOC meeting Agenda 
         1. Take an opportunity to introduce our Bronze release.
         2. Require the PTLs to bring their project status report for the discussion.  PTLs can introduce additional functionality in order to support the Bronze release.  What is the current status, challenges, and architecture.
         3. Bring your alignment with the working groups in particular WG3.
         4. Jinri will bring brief TSC reports from TOC.
         5. When and where will we know about the decision about the F2F.

         6. Do we simply point to the Jira tickets or should we have a slide deck?

            1. Slide decks are preferred because they will distributed to other O-RAN Alliance WGs.  This is a good opportunity to share your accomplishments with the WG.  Looking for design, timeframe, challenges, and most importantly WG alignment.

            2. Two weeks to go for F2F so we need to prepare.

         7. Action/ PTLs get your F2F slide decks ready.  That is in 3 days.

   3. ONES = LF Networking Conference in April (Los Angeles).  Open Networking & Edge Summit Event
 
      1. Ericsson submitted a proposal for a panel discussion that will discuss the results in Amber plugfest.  Confident that the proposal will be accepted.  We are trying to get visibility for OSC-Amber and get everybody excited about OSC Bronze.
      2.  Jinri Huang  Tracy Van Brakle  suggested speak with Paul about the demos at ONES.
7. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)

   1. Action/ Farheen - Get the information from Jack and put it on the events page of the wiki.

   2. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.

   3. Action/ Thoralf Czichy update the TOC with the new Nokia TOC members.

   4. Action/ user-59b16 talk to Jack to send out an email to the new TOC members; Nokia, Ericsson, and Radisys.

   5. Action/ Rittwik set up a time with Jack and Radisys to discuss Jira and their needs.

   6. Action/ user-59b16 update TSC with the short/long term UE simulator support.  

      1. He has been talking to members regarding feasibility but not sure if he has gotten commitment for it.
      2. ENGWEI KOO - user-59b16 asked Engwei to join.  We created a slide to better understand the UE simulator.
      3. Shared a high-level slides.
         1. We are looking for the O-DU, O-CU generating messages to the real time RIC.
         2. Engwei - Are you looking for OCU simulator that's connected to 
         3. We need emulator UE KPIs that represent the RF signal strengths of neighbors so we can predict based on signal strength whether the UE quality of experience from a neighbor or serving cells.  We need those measurements and KPIs.  Cell utilization metrics are also needed.  
         4. Engwei set up a call with user-59b16

   7. Action/ TOC we need a test coordinator with the O-RAN test group so we can come up with a common plan between the test groups.

   8. 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.

   9. Action/ All PTLs take Martin's alarm template and fill out your own components alarms.Take a look at the template and fill out what you can.  If you don't have information then let Martin know.

      1. PTLs provide general or any kind of alarms 

   10. Action / On the Bronze release page update their table.  A few have but I would like everyone to begin filling out their tables.  Convey to people outside what we're going to do in this release.

   11. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle post POC plugfest in June to the wiki events page.

       1. Readout June 25 and as we get closer we'll have a project plan.  We are focusing on two first responder scenarios.  Tracy posted the slides on the wiki.
       2. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle send the URL for the POC plutfest through lists.o-ransc.org.  

   12. Action/ PTLs update Architecture pages.

       1. user-d3360  send out a reminder to PTLs.
8. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. Amber Maintenance Release - is closed
      2. Project Bronze Release
         1. Working with LF on the CI/CD pipeline.  Contact user-d3360 if you have trouble with the CI/CD pipeline.  Jenkins server has been acting up.
   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. list of draft epics: use this JIRA filter as per Jira usage conventions. Seven subteams now analyze this draft.
         2. Traffic steering derived JIRA epics: filter (2 of 4 are currently in Bronze) // Health-check derived JIRA epics: filter . Already sure that not all will fit in Bronze.
            
      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
9. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
   1. Intel contributions - Jack is working with legal issues with binary contributions. C++ compiler to build G++ for Amber.  The G++ performance is not as high as Intel.
   2. Formalizing structure for release management.
   3. We need a release manager.
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 29 Jan 2020 
          2. On motion made by Masafumi Masuda
          3. Seconded by William DIEGO
          4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
       2. Motion made by user-d3360 to approve the Amber maintenance release on 05 Feb 2020 
          • Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
          • VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
    2. Actions
       1. Action/ user-d3360 Ask PTLs to update the Status column on Amber Maintenance (Feb, 2020) page.
       2. Action/ PTLs get your F2F slide decks ready.  Due 07 Feb 2020 
       3. Action / TOC voting members: Provide an alternate contact on the TOC list above.
       4. Action/ Jinri Huang  Tracy Van Brakle  suggested speak with Paul about the demos at ONES.

       5. Action/ user-59b16 talk to Jack to send out an email to the new TOC members; Nokia, Ericsson, and Radisys.

       6. Action/ Rittwik set up a time with Jack and Radisys to discuss Jira and their needs.

       7. Action/ user-59b16 update TSC with the short/long term UE simulator support.  

       8. Action/ TOC we need a test coordinator with the O-RAN test group so we can come up with a common plan between the test groups.
       9. 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.
       10. Action / PTLs Update your section of the Bronze Release (Jun 2020).  Convey to people outside what we're going to do in this release.
       11. Action/ Tracy Van Brakle send the URL of where on the wiki you posted the POC plugfest through lists.o-ransc.org.  
       12. Action/ user-d3360  send a reminder to the PTLs to update their projects Architecture page within their spaces on the wiki.
       13. Community asked for a release manager.

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