2023-03-15 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting) - Agenda

John Keeney

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• 2023-04-05 John Keeney

• O-RAN-SC ToC

• • https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)

• Non-RT-RIC: 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 Stancu No update

• OAM: Martin Skorupski
  • Get well soon Martin Skorupski. No update.
• O-DU:HariomGupta(HCL) / @Vidhu
  
  • No update this week

• AI/ML: @Sandeep J
  • No update this week

• RSAC/SMO: David Kinsey 
  • RSAC:
    • Minutes: RSAC Meetings (14/3 - to appear)
    • Taiwan lab status update
    • Discussion on multiple flavors of O2-DMSs (See INT project below)
    • Will discuss OSC/ONAP cooperation next week. (See below)
  • SMO
    • Continued discussions on O2-DMSs (NFO/FOCOM) from RSAC discussion.
      • No minutes/Slides available (yet?)
• INT: James Li(CMTI)
  • Discussions at RSAC & SMO meetings with Thoralf Czichy subhash kumar singh James Li Bin Yang driving for O2-related integration across projects.
  • How to support both K8S & ETSI-aligned O2-DMSs. Alignment also with SMO Tacker team.

• 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

N.K. Shankaranarayanan Seshu Kumar Mudiganti John Keeney 

• 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)
  • 

N.K. Shankaranarayanan 

Still! "not ok" - how to use NETCONF YANGs from 3GPP and O-RAN

Problem Statement might be not fully understood. 

Next step: Call with Magnus Buhrgard 

After the call and some emails: Magnus it preparing a call with 3GPP SA5 representatives and then another ONAP LS to 3GPP

The topic is on the ONAP TSC agenda tomorrow: TSC 2022-09-08

• Update from Magnus Buhrgard at ONAP TSC call tomorrow
• Slides available

> Magnus wont give up