Agenda

Antitrust Policy

• Action Items Review

• R4 Release updates

• Workgroup updates

• R5 planning

Minutes

R4 Release Updates

• Still on track for Feb 14th release for O-RAN cluster creation story

• PR pending on SIG security / workload identification story, it should be possible to merge the story in by Feb 14th

• Platform updates are continuing, no updates since last Thursday / TSC meeting

• Flux alternative to ConfigSync will likely be ready on time.

• White paper planned to align with the R4 release: please review here:

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oFeuTV3IsemsuikON2a1ldReySEBL36kBrHSTAJnjQI/edit?usp=sharing

• Blog will be requested as well

Workgroup updates

• Transport WG:

  • Good ongoing meetings with good participation

  • Whitepaper planned for discussion tomorrow

  • Ready to invite developers into meetings to engage the development process

    • Should bring the use cases here to SIG Net Arch to socialize with the wider community

    • following that, bring it to the SIG Automation to break into implementation tasks

    • Need to determine where and how to encourage interested developers. Need to include developers as early as possible in the story development. Possibly engage with Arpit for LFN support

• Modelling WG:

  • User stories brought to SIG Automation for triaging and planning in R5 timeframe

• O-RAN WG:

  • Implementation of cluster creation is in progress

  • O-Cloud registration may be a candidate for R5, there is some pre-requisites required in order to implement this

  • Bare metal support may be interesting

• Note for @Sana Tariq and @Ciaran Johnston - continue to socialize community needs with wider audiences to increase participation

• WG5: Service Assurance:

  • @Eddy Fung has been reviewing the progress after reviewing previous material - he will present in a slot in the next session here

• WG6: GenAI:

  • Sana met Kandan on the subject of a hackathon

    • There is an AI incubation house in CA where some AI startups brainstorm on innovative AI

    • Hackathon is being planned - input is required to determine what we would like to get out of it

      • virtual event hosted by Nephio community - sometime in March / April timeframe

    • This is covered in the white paper, which should be released before the hackathon

    • Any code which results could be contributed to Nephio / Nephio experimental depending on its usefulness

R5 planning

• Themes for R5:

  • Platform improvements

    • Argocd/FluxCD support on workload clusters

    • Platform (Porch) improvements

    • Multiple git platform support (github, gitlab)

  • Feature improvements:

    • Bare metal support

      • Some SDK work for adding new cluster types.

    • Support for update of entities in Nephio

    • Support for deletion of entities in Nephio

    • Observability - Make Nephio observable

      • Metrics

      • State and status

  • O-RAN user stories

    • Cluster Registration (possibly)

    • Continue Create Cluster

  • Transport user stories

  • GenAI use cases:

    • Hackathon output may potentially make R5 - e.g. template generation

• Figure out what matters for Nephio deployment

  • Quiz the SPs and get the wish list.

  • HIgh level blue print of vision of the solution and implement over time

  • Joint SIG NetArch and SIG Auto planning session required

Action items