2021-11-03 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting) - Agenda

John Keeney

Martin Skorupski

Next meetings: 

2021-10-27: Martin Skorupski  

• 16:00 UTC, 09:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT,  17:00 BST, 18:00 CEST, 19:00 EEST, 21:30 IST, 00:00 CST (Thurs), 01:00 JST (Thurs)
  

2021-11-03: John Keeney  (Martin is ooo)

• 16:00 UTC, 09:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT,  16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET, 18:00 EET, 21:30 IST, 00:00 CST (Thurs), 01:00 JST (Thurs)
  • Note: 1 hour earlier in Europe - Just this week
    

2021-11-10: John Keeney (Martin is ooo)

• 17:00 UTC, 09:00 PST, 12:00 EST,  17:00 GMT, 18:00 CET, 19:00 EET, 22:30 IST, 01:00 CST (Thurs), 02:00 JST (Thurs)
  • Note: 1 hour later in Asia, revert to normal time in Europe.

2021-11-17: John Keeney 17:00 UTC

• 17:00 UTC, 09:00 PST, 12:00 EST,  17:00 GMT, 18:00 CET, 19:00 EET, 22:30 IST, 01:00 CST (Thurs), 02:00 JST (Thurs)
  • Note: Continues like this until mid March 2022.

Summer Daylight Savings time eventually stabilizes to: 9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 16:00 UTC | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST | 19:00 EEST | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST (Thurs) | 01:00 JST (Thurs)

Winter (non-DST) time eventually stabilizes to: 9am PST | 12pm EST | 17:00 UTC | 17:00 GMT | 18:00 CET | 19:00 EET | 22:30 IST | 01:00 CST (Thurs) | 02:00 JST (Thurs)

(During Winter→Summer DST changeover follow US time. Summer→Winter DST changeover follow Europe time)

Please checkout the calendars:

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

O-RAN-SC ToC

• https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
• No update on copyright
• Update from PTLs on E release progress
  • Push for better documentation & deploy-ability
• Ongoing work on setting up all 3 labs, Taiwan, NJ, West Coast?

• Non-RT-RIC: John Keeney
  
  • Continuing with Data exposure
  • Continuing with Gateway / Exposure functions
  • Continuing Helm chart modularization & inclusion in Combine SMO deployment (see below)
• SIM: Alex Stancu
  • Final version for E Release O-DU simulator ongoing (Yang)
    
    • Ongoing with StdDefined VES for Slicing use case
• OAM: Martin Skorupski
  •  @Martin OOO
  • Yang model available for O-DU slicing use case
• O-DU:HariomGupta(HCL) / @Vidhu.  
  
  • No update
• RSAC/SMO: @Rittwik
  
  • No update
• INT: James Li WELCOME  
  • Chatting with Martin, Seb, Christophe et al,  re https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/it/dep/+/6860 for deployment ... Some fixing/extension needed. Able to deploy all ONAP & NONRTRIC functions after some manual fixes & manual copying
  • Chatting with RSAC (esp David Kinsey) & Requesting input from PTLs for existing tests/ integration for E release - Need to ramp up for E release integration tests.

Sébastien Determe 

Christophe Closset 

• Sébastien Determe 
  • Working through verify task (With Jessica in LF)
  • More flexible deployment in charts - esp simulators - easier to have configurable number of simulators etc
  • Issue with topology server
    • Still investigating .... Will talk with Alex Stancu offline
  • Working with James Li (as above) Issue may have been with Istanbul version? Currently updating
    
    • Can chat easier easier on Slack ? e.g. on https://onapproject.slack.com/archives/C01K8CNUJA2 
  • John Keeney Sébastien Determe Christophe Closset Alex Stancu will chat offline about merging NONRTRIC charts
  • VES / OOM configuration for SDNC ongoing ... https://gerrit.onap.org/r/c/oom/+/125150 

updates and current status, challenges (if any )

• POWDER lab (David) - is going to use the SMO package in the "profiles)
• SMO and SIMs are deployed as helm including configurations (topology) of the CNFs
  • RU - callhome; fault
  • DU - ves-pnfRegistration; fault
• next step
  • test automation of E2E functions (python)

Work in progress

• Pull request to O-RAN-SC it/dep gerrit in progress for helm and helm-overwrites 
  • PR opened (https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/it/dep/+/6860) - but job-builder has its issues 
• Xue is testing the end-to-end functions and updates of ONAP components (compared to the O-RAN-SC D-Release versions)
• more flexible deployment option 

Goal - replacement of existing helm

PR on SDNC-OOM - for DCAE VES-Collector config - https://gerrit.onap.org/r/c/oom/+/125150

new verify job is developed → LFN issue

then new PR for more functions and tests shared by NON-RT-RIC, and SDNC config for VES-Collector-END-Point

Tracy Van Brakle 

"3rd O-RAN ALLIANCE Global Plugfest Underway with 77 companies at 7 venues"

https://www.o-ran.org/news

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad774cce74940d7115044b0/t/6172891b223f751e6a8c9bb6/1634896156189/O-RAN.EC.2021-10-22.O-RAN+ALLIANCE+Announces+New+Specifications%2C+3rd+Global+Plugfest+and+New+Demonstrations+of+O-RAN+Technology.pdf

https://plugfestvirtualshowcase.o-ran.org/venue_north_america.html

• Late November
• Focus on pairwise testing etc
• Additional focus on PoC-ing & prototyping
• In NorthAmerica plugfest: PoC usecase "Multi-operator/multi-vendor resource pooling/slicing/optimization in disaster scenarios"
  • Testing with 6 SMOs & an overarching Public Safety SMO
  • Joint O-RAN/LFN/TIP event
  • Good use case to touch on many aspects of O-RAN functions, usecases 7 requirement
  • Ref also ONES demo/pitch on same? https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-edge-summit-north-america/ 
  • Testing in COSMOS, POWDER labs & many others.
  • Tracy Van Brakle will forward/add slides

John Keeney

Martin Skorupski

Status: canceled (Nexus does not support Helm chart distribution)

Question from O-RAN-SC to ONAP: What is possible in ONAP nexus?

Sébastien Determe: adds some info

Idea: store the artifacts - instead of helm -  RELENG-3837 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Christophe Closset: ONAP on the way to move for helm charts to gitlab....