2023-03-15 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

15 Mar 2023

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• James Li (CMTI & OSC INT)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (ONAP)
• Seshu Kumar Mudiganti (Windriver & ONAP)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Kamel Idir (Ericsson)
• 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 2023-03-15 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Unfortunately Martin Skorupski cannot join us today. Get well soon.

• Calendar:

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

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

  • This Week: 15/03/2023 9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 16:00 UTC | 16:00 GMT | 17:00 CET | 18:00 EET | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST (+1d) | 01:00 JST (+1d)
  • Next Week: 22/03/2023 9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 16:00 UTC | 16:00 GMT | 17:00 CET | 18:00 EET | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST (Thurs) | 01:00 JST (Thurs) 

• 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)

• Continuing as per last week :
  • Alot of work in JDK 17 & Springboot 3 updates
  • Consolidating PM data exposure in new repo for RAN PM functions
    • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=nonrtric%2Fplt%2Franpm.git;a=summary
  • (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)

• Fixed an issue - had a  hard coded timeout for VES message reception - fixed now.  Now a parameter. Simulators deploy in AWS with OAM stack - in a single VM.
• PM File generation
  
  • John Keeney Alex StancuNo update

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Get well soon Martin Skorupski. No update.

O-DU (Hariom Gupta Vidhu Shekhar Pandey)

• No Update

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• Discussions at RSAC & SMO meetings with Thoralf Czichy subhash kumar singh James Li Bin Yang driving for O2-related integration across projects.
  
  • Ref: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/download/attachments/3604609/SMO%20Functions.docx?api=v2 
  • Ref: O2DMS in ETSI NFV profile
• How to support both K8S & ETSI-aligned O2-DMSs in a multi-cloud environment. Alignment also with SMO Tacker team.

RSAC/SMO (David Kinsey)

• Minutes: RSAC Meetings (14/3)
• Taiwan lab status update
• Discussion on multiple flavors of O2-DMSs in multi-cloud deployments
• Will discuss OSC/ONAP cooperation next week. (See below)

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

  • No update this week

ONAP Use cases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• ONAP SON uses case ... & others
  • More discussion & progress on details on CM-notification VES Message
    
    • Good example of cross-project collaboration & alignment. possible feedback to WG10 as CR for an illustrative example.
    • Links:
      • https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/O1+CM+Update+Notification+VES+Message
      • https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/CPS-1434%3A+VES+Message+to+update+CPS+DB
      • https://jira.onap.org/browse/CPS-1434
      • https://jira.onap.org/browse/INT-2177

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

• Request at recent RSAC calls for update on areas of overlap / common interest in OSC & ONAP. (Timo Perala, N.K. Shankaranarayanan)
• Meeting last Friday 10th Mar Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Timo Perala N.K. Shankaranarayanan Martin Skorupski Alex Stancu John Keeney 
  • Based on discussion of topics on : https://wiki.onap.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=162105284 
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan Slides:  (Worked on / Discussed during the call)
  • 

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• None this week - Ran out of time.

Meeting ends