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Date

09 Mar 2022

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Alex Stancu(Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• James Li (CMCC & OSC INT)
• Christophe Closset (AT&T)
• Sebastien Determe (AT&T)
• Abhinav Singh (AT&T)
• David Allabaugh (Fujitsu)
• Evgeny Limonov (DT)
• Kevin Tang (STL)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (STL)
• Michal Cmarada (Pantheon)
• Ryan McAllister (USN)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
• Xue Gao (AT&T)
• May not have captured a full attendee list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

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

• Co-located with ONAP 2022-03-09 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Note daylight Savings Time changeover in coming weeks - see note above.

  • Please follow the calendar

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

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

  • US/Canada: Daylight Savings Starts 13 March.  Eastern Daylight Time is UTC-4

  • Europe: European Summer Time Starts 27 March CEST is UTC+2

  • 2022-03-16: (Follow US Local time - 1 hour earlier for Europeans & countries without DST)

  • 2022-03-23: (Follow US Local time - remains 1 hour earlier for Europeans & countries without DST)

  • 2022-03-30 + (Usual local time in US & Europe, remains 1 hour earlier for countries without DST) 

    • 9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 16:00 UTC | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST | 19:00 EEST | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST (Thurs) | 01:00 JST (Thurs)

• Martin Skorupski unavailable this week.

OSC SMO Meeting Series: Reminder from previous weeks:

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

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call this week

• https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Discussion about WG6 AAL contribution - Approval to use BSD licence - Repo approved
  • OSC SMO project: renaming a repo smo/app → smo/pkg
  • Reminder to attend OTF readout during RSAC call tomorrow
    
    • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1405120&calstart=2022-03-10
    • 10/Mar: Note Postponed 2 weeks:

      • David Kinsey "I got notification late last night that our resource for OTF will not be able to make it. Therefore we will need to move this out two more weeks to the 3/24/2022 9am Eastern. Since outside the USA will not yet have moved to Daylight savings the meeting will appear an hour earlier (2pm CET)."

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• As per last week:
  • Working on e2e PM data - making it available over pre-R1 DME (OSC NONRTRIC) Information Coordination Service)
  • Working on PoC Service Exposure - with a view towards R1
    • Will update more as this matures - still very early - hopefully a demo in coming weeks
  • Working on getting Repos set up - e.g. lots of Jenkins jobs.
    • Thanks to the LF team!

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• + in OAM Martin Skorupski
• Topology creator & visualiser
  • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=oam.git;a=tree;f=code/network-topology-instance-generator
  • Also generates a JSON file for configured
  • Also a tool in OAM to create a docker compose file for this topology 
    • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=oam.git;a=tree;f=code/network-topology-parser

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• As above
• 5G Super Blueprint: Discussions continue
• No other update this week

O-DU (Hariom Gupta Vidhu Shekhar Pandey)

• No update

RSAC/SMO (David Kinsey)

• No update
• Reminder: OTF update at tomorrow's RSAC call
  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1405120&calstart=2022-03-10
  • Walk-through session for OTF at upcoming RSAC meeting next week (March 10)
    
    • Near-RT-RIC platform as usecase ?
    • Session will be recorded etc
    • 10/Mar: Note Postponed 2 weeks:

      • David Kinsey "I got notification late last night that our resource for OTF will not be able to make it. Therefore we will need to move this out two more weeks to the 3/24/2022 9am Eastern. Since outside the USA will not yet have moved to Daylight savings the meeting will appear an hour earlier (2pm CET)."

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• Reminder OTF: (from TOC)
  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1405120&calstart=2022-03-10
  •  Walk-through session for OTF at upcoming RSAC meeting next week (March 10)
    
    • Near-RT-RIC platform as usecase?
    • Session will be recorded etc
    • 10/Mar: Note Postponed 2 weeks:

      • David Kinsey "I got notification late last night that our resource for OTF will not be able to make it. Therefore we will need to move this out two more weeks to the 3/24/2022 9am Eastern. Since outside the USA will not yet have moved to Daylight savings the meeting will appear an hour earlier (2pm CET)."

ONAP Use Cases Update  (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• Struggling with 3GPP copyright / reuse.
  
  • Sent query to Magnus Buhrgard & awaiting follow-up.
• Ransim: Evolving (slowly) towards Netopeer from Honeycomb Vishal Varvate
  
  • Comments welcome from Alex Stancu Martin Skorupski
  • A1 in SON use case & RANSim (K Release +)
    
    • (Also being discussed in Slicing use case K Release +)
    • Next release in ONAP K. - Will start with update in ONAP REQ.

Upcoming LFN Summits (Timo Perala

• LF vDTF event: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/2022+LFN+DTF+Workshop,  March 14^th and 15^th.
  • Four hours both days, European afternoons

  • Topics center around cross-community topics. Discussion on OSC/ONAP SMO is welcome. cross project discussion on orchestration (e.g. EMCO and Magma) also welcome.

    • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/2022+LFN+DTF+Workshop+Topics

• ONEEF https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-and-edge-exec-forum/, which is April 12-14.

SMO Integration Charts (Sebastien Determe)

• Sebastien Determe & Christophe Closset
• CI/CD tooling implemented in Jenkins - working now (testing internally, & testing on Powder too)
  • Reports from tests now appear during review process
    • e.g. https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/it/dep/+/7864 contains sample tests, & reports from Jenkins jobs can be seen in comments
  • Documentation ongoing (wiki page, videos etc - to come)
    • Automated deployment and testing - using SMO package and ONAP Python SDK
  • Demo next week   & dedicated deep drives etc possible later.
  • Which tests?:
    • O1, Closed Loop use cases, O-RU / O-DU usecases, Apex Policy versions ..... different flavors, ... Lots to see next week!
  • Similar to the ONAP OOM tests ...
• Issues with DMaaP MR now fixed in the scripts now (override value) when SMO pack installed. 

Q/A

•  Evgeny Limonov joins us from DT.
  
  • Interested in R1, Non-RT-RIC, App management etc.
  • Observation initially.
  • Very Welcome!