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2025-04-24 TSC Minutes

2025-04-24 TSC Minutes

 

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@Sana Tariq (Chairperson)

TELUS, Canada

@Ciaran Johnston (Ericsson) (Vice-Chairperson)

Ericsson

@Avinash Bhat

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

@Timo Perala (Nokia)

Nokia

@Sagar Arora

OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA)

@balaji varadaraju

Red Hat

@Vishal Varvate

Capgemini India

@Eric Debeau

Orange

@Bernard Tsai

Deutsche Telekom

@Kandan Kathirvel

Google Cloud

@Hunor Demeter (Deactivated)

VMWare by Broadcom

@Seshu Kumar Mudiganti

WindRiver

@Phil Porras

SRI International

@Raj Panchapakesan

AccuKnox Inc

Iain Wilkinson

Vodafone

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Key Updates

SIG Status

Network Architecture

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Automation

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Release

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Security

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Other Updates

  • .Greeting from LFN TAC on organising community events. If any LFN community would like to organise community event, e.g. Nephio developer event, LFN staff requests to send an email to support@lfnetworking.org to inform staff about this to guarantee staff support for the event. Current recommendation is to hold virtual community events mostly due to potential challenges with travel. Also, no LFN budget readily available to support in-person community events. Another recommendation is to organise if possible one day event, not multi-day. This is not strong guidance, at community’s discretion. If critical mass of attendees is quaranteed for in-person community event, there is a possibility to bring the event to LFN board for potential funding consideration.

Action Items Review

Minutes

Lack of quorum for decisions therefore we defer the decisions until next meeting

  • On the Free5GC, we may have a volunteer (Girish from Infosys) to maintain this we will follow up in a few weeks

  • For the getting started and associated docs we will publish these as they are and allow for improvement as they are used

The kpt project is being reinvigorated in order to meet the short and longer term needs of Nephio and other users - help welcome if anyone wants to join.

R5 Release

Release date - artifact release date agreed on June 26th (from SIG Automation), with formal release on Monday June 30th. Marketing release may be impacted: @Jennifer Bonner (Deactivated) and @Sunny Schatz may be impacted

SIG 1 - Network Architecture

Scope for R5 is complete, scope for R6 is being worked on

  • service assurance

    • new concepts around introduction of OTel metrics and prometheus

Will take a discussion with the Sylva community on synergies on May 12th

  • learn about possible synergies

SIG 2 - Automation

Making good progress on the R5 platform updates

Some discussion going on about package variants - not fully resolved, we need to describe how the upstream packages are referred to. Discussion will continue

Interesting presentation from Vish on Sourcery - open source tool for code reviews

Presentation from Eddy on assurance - there is an action on how we go about getting generic telemetry in from the platform, as well as what metrics might be useful

Discussed release dates

There are still some issues with members in github - Liam will discuss with Casey

Good attendance - 10-11 people and interactive discussions

Girish will communicate whether Infosys will use Free5GC at this meeting in a week or two.

SIG 3 - Release

No updates

SIG 4 - Security

No updates

Meetings

There is unlikely be support for funding of ANY in-person events in 2025. At minimum 200 or so attendees would be required to even consider an event, which would be voted on by the governing board

Virtual events are straightforward. TSC will discuss options for a 2025 event at next TSC - e.g. around release planning / just after a release.

Kubenet

Not currently governed by a foundation - we need to ensure that it is in a governed foundation if we start to rely on it. Wim has stated that they will look at options, and will come to present at a later TSC meeting. Ciaran to add to next meeting agenda and reach out to Wim.