Neohio-TSC-2023-08-31 Nephio Project MINUTES OF THE TECHNICAL STEERING COMMITTEE August 31, 2023 10:00 am Pacific Time Attendance: Name Organization Join Time Leave Time Duration Eric Debeau Orange SA 10:05 AM 10:54 AM 0:48:56 Ciaran Johnston Ericsson 10:01 AM 10:54 AM 0:53:19 PMO Admin - 10:04 AM 10:54 AM 1:38:41 Gaurav (AK) - 10:02 AM 10:54 AM 0:51:33 Sundar N. - 10:07 AM 10:54 AM 0:46:55 Hunor Demeter VMware, Inc. 10:02 AM 10:53 AM 0:51:31 Stephen Wong Futurewei Technologies, Inc. 10:05 AM 10:54 AM 0:48:45 Seshu Kumar (SaiSeshu) Wind River Systems, Inc. 9:55 AM 10:54 AM 0:58:22 Liam Fallon Ericsson Software Technology 10:04 AM 10:54 AM 0:50:15 Bernard Tsai - DT - 10:05 AM 10:54 AM 0:49:26 Raj - 10:01 AM 10:54 AM 0:53:05 Olivier Smith MATRIXX Software 10:00 AM 10:54 AM 0:54:09 Borislav Glozman (Amdocs) - 10:03 AM 10:54 AM 0:51:00 Tal Liron Google LLC 10:05 AM 10:54 AM 0:48:36 Jane Shen - Mavenir - 10:02 AM 10:54 AM 0:52:28 kandan K - 10:02 AM 10:54 AM 0:51:51 pooja bhoyar - 10:55 AM 10:55 AM 0:00:14 Kenny PAUL (LFN) - 9:56 AM 10:54 AM 0:58:19 Victor Morales Samsung Research America, Inc. 10:17 AM 10:54 AM 0:36:57 Lucy Hyde | Program Manager - 9:57 AM 10:49 AM 0:51:45 Alexis de Talhouët Red Hat, Inc. 10:04 AM 10:53 AM 0:48:44 John Belamaric Google LLC 10:01 AM 10:54 AM 0:53:05 Ranny Haiby (Linux Foundation) - 10:04 AM 10:54 AM 0:49:51 Anonymous (1650****341) - 10:03 AM 10:54 AM 0:50:52 Ravi Ravindran F5, Inc. 10:05 AM 10:52 AM 0:47:31 Sana Tariq TELUS Corporation 10:04 AM 10:43 AM 0:38:58 Timo Perala (Nokia) - 10:04 AM 10:54 AM 0:49:41 Call to Order Kandan Kathirvel (KK) called the meeting to order at 10:03 am. Lucy Hyde (LH) & Kenny Paul (KP) assisted in recording the minutes, reviewed the antitrust policy notice, and performed roll call. Agenda/Action Items Kandan Kathirvel (KK) reviewed the agenda for the meeting. There were no changes or additional topics added. New TSC Members: Kandan Kathirvel (KK) welcomed three new TSC members: Bala Varadaraju (Red Hat); Victor Morales (Samsung); Raj Panchapakesan (Accuknox). Nephio Developer Summit (October 10-11) Kandan Kathirvel (KK) gave an update of the Developer Summit and stated that confirmation for date/location will arrive via email by September 1st (tomorrow). KK stated that the agenda will remain similar and asked Kenny Paul/Lucy Hyde to set up a wiki page for registration to include availability (onsite/virtual etc) and other details; registration expected to be 100-300 people. The Summit will include keynotes, birds of a feather sessions, planning sessions for R2+ etc. KK encouraged the community to provide feedback regarding the agenda as well. KK stated that they are looking for volunteers to assist with the event (agenda, speakers etc); if community members would like to volunteer, please contact Kandan Kathirvel and Sana Tariq. Kenny Paul (KP) stated that he was in contact with the LF Events team regarding registration and the event and needed key details. KP stated that he would set up future calls to finalize planning the event as well. Sana Tariq (ST) requested to create a wiki page for agenda topics/ideas for members to submit topics. KK confirmed; ACTION Kenny Paul (KP) will duplicate from last Developer event. SIG Status NetArch: Sana Tariq (ST) stated that they have 2-3 meetings per week and invited SIG Automation to speak to R2 scoping. ST stated that they are focusing on network function/infra and deploying OIA ORAN Network Functions. ST stated that some requested features will be deferred to R3 due to time limitations with R2. Automation: John Belamaric (JB) stated that SIG Automation divided efforts into several simultaneous tracks with multiple ongoing meetings per week. The tracks are aligned with SIG-1. Wim Henderickx (WH) stated the 3-5 tracks: infra to NF, OAI/radio SAI (check w/ recording), technical debt, experiments/proof of concepts. JB stated that Nephio is planning for R2 on November 15th; the community needs a month before the release date for hardening/testing/documentation and that the development cycle is effectively six weeks long. Ciaran Johnson (CJ) had been some discussion about doing the release aftern the holidays - JB- up to the TSC but Nov 15th is the plan of record. KK- 6 month cadence is the objective. If delivered in Dec announcement would be held until January. Discussion ensued regarding support for Helm charts. Tal Liron (TL) notes that one of the overators that had been contributed are written in python Release: Stephen Wong (SW) had a retrospective for R1 on what to implement for R2 LFN Induction Packet: Kenny Paul (KP) discussed the LFN Induction Packet which will be sent via email after the Nephio TSC meeting for vote. KP stated that the limited wait period was approved by the LFN TAC as well. SIG Security Proposal Raj P (RP) will present this proposal at the next meeting. Just bringing some awareness JB directed Raj to review the Nephio Charter to find requirements for the creation of SIGs. JB will connect offline. PSIRT/CVE Process Discussion John Belamaric (JB) highlighted the need for a security process when vulnerabilities are uncovered. JB state that a new mailing list will be set up in the interim and that a new committee should be set up to handle future vulnerabilities/security response. Seshu - request for the TSC meeting to be held earlier in the day in consideration of attendias in India/Asia. KK add discussion of TSC timing to the next TSC call.