Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

2022 04 13

Recording: TODO

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Arunkumar Halebid

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair		David Kinsey
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair		James Li
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl		Ondřej Hudousek
   Ericsson	John-Paul Lane		John Keeney
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda		Anil Umesh
   Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid		Thoralf Czichy
   Orange	William Diego		Vincent Danno
   Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Manasi Padhy
   TIM	Andrea Buldorini		Scarpina Salvatore
   Wind River	Bin Yang		Jackie Huang
   Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly		Kexuan Sun
   Samsung	Jeong JinGuk		Avinash Bhat

   *Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.   

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes for TOC meeting approval: proposed by TODO and seconded by TODO. The motion is approved.
4. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. we go through the items below.

5. Release Votes and Approval

   1. Thoralf (near-RT RIC) proposed a new repo ric-plt/stslgo . Details: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/toc/message/674

6. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. This is currently stalled and we are waiting on updates from O-RAN legal team. 2022-04-06: no news
         

7. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting

      1. Jack: We need to be prepared for the June one. We have some items as part of the F Release and planning for the G Release.
      2. 2022-04-06: Jack and Jinri confirmed that it's still a virtual meeting. Action Point: Rittwik and RSAC to prepare for this meeting
   2. Plugfest
      1. Jinri: There are 2 plugfests this year. It will be great if we can have regular updates on the preparation work.
      2. Jack: 2022-03-30: I don't see Tracy today. We will talk about it next week.
      3. 2022-04-06: Action Point: Jinri to check details and come back with more information. O-RAN members should have received call for participation (with deadline and host information).
   3. O-RAN spending
      1. 2022-04-06
         1. O-RAN is collecting spending request. Jinri sent e-mail on this to TOC mailing list.
         2. David responded with potential need for simulation tool
         3. Jinri reminded participants of the meeting to check for any additional spending needs.
8. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "F" Release:
      1. Action Point: PTLs to add a line showing code coverage stats for F release.
      2. 2022-04-06: we checked the page F Release - not all subprojects have a heading or reference to this.
   2. 5G Super Blueprint status - tabled for D and E, will be re-evaluated for F release.
      1. Tag this activity for G release.
      2. 2022-04-06: no news
         
9. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager Trishan de Lanerolle /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. Trishan has moved on. Need to work with LF to secure a replacement.
      2. Action Point: Jack to send another message to Arpit requesting when replacement for Trishan is available.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      
      1. OTF Workshop
         1. OTF Workshop will be held on the April 7 in RSAC call.
         2. 2022-04-06: James talked about David Kinsey's mail on possible delay in OTF adoption. O-cloud usage should help with the current OTF-related issues. Details see David's e-mail.
         3. 2022-04-06: Rittwik reported issues with PTP standup not yet done. They are also trying to "templatize" the Viavi deploment to make it easier to deploy.
      2. "G" Release
         1. Jack: How do we track our support of MVP?
         2. David Kinsey: Rittwik and I do coordinate, but do not measure. We will work to see how we measure.
         3. 2022-04-06: Jack called for first input. RSAC planning committee will again coordinate.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. 2022-04-06: no news
      2. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      3. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      4. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      5. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      6. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      7. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      8. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      9. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)

      10. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      11. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      12. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      13. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      14. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)

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.)

2022 04 06

Recording: https://zoom.us/rec/share/7peastzm9puzm6XrAbwqDXhb_slCIHCeNzTFRDX7b3PNiyDdDVPLva9Srmb2u1Vi.Bfds6sNtQRIfVIgz

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner): Thoralf Czichy (standing in for Arunkumar Halebid)

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x	David Kinsey
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair	x	James Li
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x	Ondřej Hudousek
   Ericsson	John-Paul Lane	x	John Keeney
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x	Anil Umesh
   Nokia	Arunkumar Halebid	x	Thoralf Czichy
   Orange	William Diego	x (12 min late)	Vincent Danno
   Radisys	Ganesh Shenbagaraman		Manasi Padhy	Ankit Barve participated (Jack asked for e-mail)
   TIM	Andrea Buldorini	x	Scarpina Salvatore
   Wind River	Bin Yang	x	Jackie Huang
   Viavi Solutions	Ultan Kelly	x	Kexuan Sun
   Samsung	Jeong JinGuk		Avinash Bhat	x (Jack asked for e-mail with official alternate name)

   *Quorum: 50% or more of total TOC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.   

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting

   1. Decision: Minutes for TOC meeting approval: proposed by Masafumi and seconded by Jinri. The motion is approved.
4. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. Potential new spending (Jinri) - covered by O-RAN related business in item 7.

5. Release Votes and Approval

6. Copyright update

   1. Is SCCL discussion progressing in O-RAN Alliance? Does the Alliance have plans to publish code-like specifications under SCCL anytime soon? Need to follow up with O-RAN legal team and O-RAN EC to determine current status of SCCL.

      1. This is currently stalled and we are waiting on updates from O-RAN legal team. 2022-04-06: no news
         

7. O-RAN-related business (marketing, WG interaction, TSC/EC update etc.)

   1. F2F Meeting

      1. Jack: We need to be prepared for the June one. We have some items as part of the F Release and planning for the G Release.
      2. 2022-04-06: Jack and Jinri confirmed that it's still a virtual meeting. Action Point: Rittwik and RSAC to prepare for this meeting

   2. TOC Nomination

      1. Action Point: Jinri to get reaffirmation from TSC for the 6 seats including Samsung as of April 6. → DONE
         

      2. 2022-04-06: Jinri confirmed that this (6 seats incl. new seat for Samsung) was approved. Next vote would be in March 2023. Seats are by company. If person leaves, company provides subtitute. In technical teams nomination is linked to persons.
         
   3. Plugfest
      1. Jinri: There are 2 plugfests this year. It will be great if we can have regular updates on the preparation work.
      2. Jack: 2022-03-30: I don't see Tracy today. We will talk about it next week.
      3. 2022-04-06: New Action Point: Jinri to check details and come back with more information. O-RAN members should have received call for participation (with deadline and host information).
   4. O-RAN spending
      1. 2022-04-06
         1. O-RAN is collecting spending request. Jinri sent e-mail on this to TOC mailing list.
         2. David responded with potential need for simulation tool
         3. Jinri reminded participants of the meeting to check for any additional spending needs.
8. Old business and Status of Open Actions
   1. "F" Release:
      1. Action Point: PTLs to add a line showing code coverage stats for F release.
      2. 2022-04-06: we checked the page F Release - not all subprojects have a heading or reference to this.
   2. 5G Super Blueprint status - tabled for D and E, will be re-evaluated for F release.
      1. Tag this activity for G release.
      2. 2022-04-06: no news
         
9. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager Trishan de Lanerolle /Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. Trishan has moved on. Need to work with LF to secure a replacement.
      2. New Action Point: Jack to send another message to Arpit requesting when replacement for Trishan is available.
   2. Requirements Software Architecture Committee (RSAC, link incl. meeting details)
      
      1. OTF Workshop
         1. OTF Workshop will be held on the April 7 in RSAC call.
         2. 2022-04-06: James talked about David Kinsey's mail on possible delay in OTF adoption. O-cloud usage should help with the current OTF-related issues. Details see David's e-mail.
         3. 2022-04-06: Rittwik reported issues with PTP standup not yet done. They are also trying to "templatize" the Viavi deploment to make it easier to deploy.
      2. "G" Release
         1. Jack: How do we track our support of MVP?
         2. David Kinsey: Rittwik and I do coordinate, but do not measure. We will work to see how we measure.
         3. 2022-04-06: Jack called for first input. RSAC planning committee will again coordinate.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. 2022-04-06: no news
      2. James Li Integration and Testing (INT)
      3. Mahesh Jethanandani Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

      4. John Keeney Non-Real Time RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)

      5. SUNIL SINGH RIC Applications (RICAPP)

      6. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 

      7. (TBD) O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU) 

      8. user-30c9d  O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)

      9. Luis Farias O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)

      10. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)

      11. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)

      12. Jackie Huang Infrastructure (INF)

      13. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)

      14. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)

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.)

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