2024-07-09 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

Time & Location:

• Time Change: This meeting is now 1 hour later - 15:00 UTC on Tuesdays
  

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Date

09 Jul 2024

Attendees

• John Keeney(Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• subhash kumar singh (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Raviteja Karumuri (Ericsson EST)
• Denis G Noonan (Ericsson EST)
• Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)
• kyehwan.lee@nist.gov (NIST)
• guru raja  (Tech Mahindra)
• Srinivanas Yanamadala (Tech Mahindra)
• Varada Varad (Samsung)
• Naman Gupta (Samsung)
• Deena M (Tech Mahindra)
• May not have captured a full correct attendee list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

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

• Co-located with ONAP 2024-07-09 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lores)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Calendar:

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

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

• Time Change:
  
  • This meeting is now 1 hour later - 15:00 UTC

• 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 & OSFG calls last week

• TOC: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • No meeting last week
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):
    • No major topic planned yet (AFAIK)

• OSFG:
  • No major update

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• OSC NONRTRIC: Release J - done
• Release K Planning:
  • No major update this week ... but will continue with: 
    
    • More focus on demonstrators - esp aiming towards next F2F
    • A1-Controller work in ONAP will continue.
    • Integration
      • subhash kumar singh 
        • Would like to cooperate on SME & rApp usecase & AIML framework
          • Definitely - would be good for demo at F2F too.
          • Lets start a page to capture this ... may move to RSAC later.

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Release J done
• Release K
  • Working on Python O1 & OFH M-Plane simulators
    • Still on track & ongoing

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Release K
  • O-DU team would like to support std-defined alarms - but not showing up in SDN-R - so updates needed for SDN-R/ODLUX (to get events from kafka)
    
    • (newAlarms, clearedAlarms)
  • Work topics: Ongoing & Discussions - As before:
    
    • WG11 Security updates
    • OAM model updates from WG10
    • Topology?
      • Lots of existing models -
        • 3GPP, IETF network topology, O-RAN (WG10), onf-tapi, tmforum 
      • John Keeney Lets work together to try get some of the data generated by Simulated Topology Generator into OSC TEIV repository - but we need to work on intermodel-relationship modelling.

OSC Integration / INT (James Li)

• No update this week

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• No update this week.

• Meeting notes Meeting notes

• Topology & Inventory John Keeney :

  • No update this week

RSAC (David Kinsey Rittwik Jana)

• No update this week
• Minutes: RSAC Meetings 

AI/ML platform project (subhash kumar singh )

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• subhash kumar singh 
  • J Release
    • Main update was in platform improvements
  • K Release
    • Spec alignment with O-RAN Arch. & specs - esp for training services
    • Would like to work alot more on integration
      • Ref above NONRTRIC integration, R1 for rApps, sample rApp, etc.
• How to use/embed an Ml-Model in an rApp?
  • John Keeney Spec is very unclear how rApps use ML models or the AI-ML-Platform / model store.
  • Pre-spec implementation of NONRTRIC rApps can use KServe ML models - where KServe-wrapped ML Models can be LCM'ed as part of rApp LCM
    • Ref: Sample rApp: https://github.com/o-ran-sc/nonrtric-plt-rappmanager/tree/master/sample-rapp-generator/rapp-kserve 
    • Can be used/LCM'ed using rApp Manager: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-nonrtric-plt-rappmanager/en/latest/ & Release J: rApp Manager

ONAP Update (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week

ONAP/OSC Usecases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week.

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• subhash kumar singh Anyone know if/how to implement stuff in CTRs as pre-spec implementations?
  
  • Please check with CR author - easier if your company is a co-author of CR.
  • After CR is approved, and spec is approved, then the 'O-RAN license' applies.
  • Gets difficult if the accepted spec-version diverges from the implemented pre-spec version
  • Need to be careful about checking copyright & protected IP of CRs, and later when approved. (60 days after approval, IP declarations should be completed)
  • ( ^ Statements above are just our understanding, and may not be correct!. Consult an IPR specialist )

Meeting ends 34 min