2023-09-05 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

05 Sep 2023

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• James Li (CMTI & OSC INT)
• Seshu Kumar Mudiganti (Windriver & OSC SMO)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (ONAP)
• Timo Perala (Nokia & ONAP)
• Ambrish Singh (Ericsson EST)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• Rohith Rajneesh (Ericsson EST)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
• Denis G Noonan (Ericsson EST)
• Raviteja Karumuri (Ericsson EST)
• Varada Varad (Samsung)
• Vineet Aggarwal Vineet Aggarwal (Rakuten RSI)
• 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 2023-09-05 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Martin Skorupski & Alex Stancu may not be available 26 Sept meeting.
• Martin Skorupski & Alex Stancu not available 03 Oct meeting.

• Calendar:

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

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

  • 7am PDT | 10pm EDT | 14:00 UTC | 15:00 BST | 16:00 CEST | 17:00 EEST | 19:30 IST | 22:00 CST | 23:00 JST

• OSC SMO project calls now move to its own time slot - alternate Thursdays - TBC
  

  • 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):
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):
    • Looking for updates for different workstreams ...  starting next week
      • perhaps we can review updates here before the TOC calls

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• Updating sonar scans and related updates to improve results: making good progress
• Making good progress on rApp manager.  (Hope to demo in a couple of weeks)
  • Next week maybe? (Aravindhan Ayyanathan) 
• 3PP dependency updates & addressing vulnerability - lots to do - progressing slowly
  

• OpenAPI-first in A1-PMS & ICS

  • Change from code→openapi→docs to openapi → code-stubs & docs

  • To better align with R1 specs as they mature

  • To improve expressiveness of docs etc.

  • Almost all working now - no functional change visible, but lots of work!
• Some changes in A1-Mediator in near-RT-RIC plt in H-Release.
  • Meeting planned with Near-RT-RIC team tomorrow.
  • Further investigation needed re effects on A1-PMS/ICS & A1-SIM
• Updates from RTD config changes - Change in every repo & multiple branches!

  • RTD is deprecating some config options, so RTD build will fail

    • NONRTRIC-921 - Getting issue details... STATUS

      • Find all files called .readthedocs.yaml   (in root directory of all our repos, all branches)

      • Ref: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/pages/diffpagesbyversion.action?pageId=12157500&selectedPageVersions=21&selectedPageVersions=19

      • Ref: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config-file/v2.html#build-os

      • Note. This file is not used in the Jenkins RTD verify job, so the only way to actually check if this worked is to check the build for each project on "readthedocs.org" after merge:

        • e.g. https://readthedocs.org/projects/o-ran-sc-nonrtric-plt-ranpm/builds/

        • e.g. https://readthedocs.org/projects/o-ran-sc-nonrtric/builds/

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• continuing on ... not major update

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Updating SDNC/R with ODL Argon
• No update on PM Streaming this week
  • John Keeney is updating sequence diagram for file-based & streaming proposal - more next week

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• Needs to give update to TOC on Pairwise testing etc.
  • Will check in with relevant PTLs about use cases & test cases.
• Energy Savings usecase:
  • Martin Skorupski Alex Stancu Struggling to interpret data set from TIM ... 

O-DU Vidhu Shekhar Pandey)

• No update

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti )

• Meeting notes Meeting notes
• I-Release
  
  • ETSI-based DMS profile going well & will test against simulators soon.
    • As per O-RAN Spec (WG6)
  • Need to consider APIs & flows for disaggregated SMO activity
  • Hard to find a starting point for end-to-end flow.
    • Plan to start with Inventory, since this pulls lots of stuff together.
    • Will start with O-Cloud inventory from IMS etc ... but lots of potential for lots of work here. (also some work currently in INF project)
• Would like to make progress about ASD for CNFs
  • Will reach out to Byung-Woo Jun & others from ONAP to get feedback too.
• Need more support from the community.

RSAC (David Kinsey Rittwik Jana )

• No update this week
• Minutes: RSAC Meetings 
  • Meeting tomorrow.

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

ONAP Update (N.K. Shankaranarayanan Seshu Kumar MudigantiTimo Perala  )

• No update this week

ONAP/OSC Usecases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• None this week

Meeting ends 40min.