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Date

01 Mar 2023

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Kamel Idir (Ericsson)
• Sandra Jackson (LF)
• 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 2023-03-01 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Calendar:

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

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

  • 09:00 PST | 12:00 EST | 17:00 UTC | 17:00 GMT | 18:00 CET | 22:30 IST | 01:00 (+1d) CST
    

• Will need to talk about daylight savings time switchover in coming weeks.

• 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 call last week

• https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • No major update
  • This week's TOC (Tomorrow):

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• New repo for RAN PM functions
  • Will be new home for PM functions previously shown & current work
  • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=nonrtric%2Fplt%2Franpm.git;a=summary
• JDK 17 & Springboot 3 updates
  • Lots of work!
• Issue with Documentation in ONAP:
  • https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/2/IT-25238 
• Issue with Committer rights updates:
  • https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/2/IT-25253
• Also, continuing as per last week :
  • Release H Planning continues:

    • (R1) Service Exposure & Management

      • CAPIF Aligned Service Registry
      • Secured/Sandbox execution environment
      • Controlled access & exposure of service to/from rApps

    • (R1) Data Management & Exposure

      • File-based PM data → InfluxDB
      • Previous focus on PM data - but will extend to other use cases too
      • Aim to work with AIML project for Training (and Inference ?) data access

    • rApp Management

      • Built on ONAP “Automation Composition” model & platform to implement rApp use cases
        • Inference Services in rApps
          • Added a 'KServe Participant'
        • rApp-specific extensions needed
      • Packaging, Onboarding & Orchestration of rApps
        • rApp-specific packaging & Onboarding
          • Aim to align with / inform ongoing work in O-RAN (& OSC) about Common App packaging & Onboarding.
        • (rApps with & without µService)
      • Overlap with Service Exposure work to examine role of an rApp Manager to support controlled exposure & LCM of µService and non-µService parts of an rApp

    • Continued A1-Policy & A1-Enrichment-Information evolution (& R1-A1)

      • A1 Spec evolution
      • A1-Policy work in ONAP (continues in ONAP London) - candidate for R1-A1(P)
      • A1-EI management as part of DME - candidate for how to include A1-EI in R1-DME
    • Sample use cases (rApps)
      • Requirements Drivers for rApp/R1 development
      • High degree of cross-project integration activity

    • Testing, Maintenance & Housekeeping

      • Function Test & Integration Test environment,
      • Support integration, deployment & configuration of SMO/Non-RT-RIC related functions & usecases in OSC Integration env.
      • Project coordination, Documentation, Delivery, Reporting, Cross-project alignment, Community demos, O-RAN Standardization support, etc.

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Looking at VES File Ready event, to be O1 compliant
• PM File generation
  
  • John Keeney Alex Stancu Hope to talk soon about PM file generation & periodic File Ready in Simulator
    
    • It may be a couple of weeks before we get to work on this
    • Uncertain how to handle ONAP VES collector still using DMaaP MR ... Will examine this in coming weeks
    • Need to look again at OSC SMO VES Collector ... maybe it can do what we need.

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Still updating to latest O1 specs
• Demonstrating/Communicating how SDNR can be used as an SMO-based O-RU Controller

O-DU (Hariom Gupta Vidhu Shekhar Pandey)

• No Update

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• No Update

RSAC/SMO (David Kinsey)

• No Update

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

  • Spoke / Demoed File-Based PM exposure to AIML platform for training/inference

    • Ref discussions on this topic at this meeting 4 weeks ago 
    • Will demo filtered File-based PM storage in InfluxDB at a coming meeting - TBC
  • Hope to demo ML Inference service LCM / rApp KServe Adapter in 2 weeks
    • Ref NONRTRIC topic above

ONAP Use cases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No Update

ONAP / OSC / O-RAN Alliance: Cooperation & Alignment

• No Update.

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• None this week

Meeting ends