Nephio TSC meeting Mar. 28, 2024 MINUTES OF THE TECHNICAL STEERING COMMITTEE 09:00 am Pacific Time Call to Order @ 09:00 Kandan Kathirvel (KK) called the meeting to order Attendance: bold == here Quorum == 9 members Name / Alternate - Organization Alessandro D'Alessandro / Fabrizio Moggio [Present] Bala Varadaraju - RedHat Bernard Tsai - Deutsche Telekom Ciaran Johnston - Ericsson [Present] Eric Debeau - Orange [Present] Hunor Demeter / Padma Sudarsan - VMware [Present] Iain Wilkinson / Riccardo Gasparetto Stori - Vodafone -alt Selcuk Kandan Kathirvel (Chair) - Google [Present] Raj Panchapakesan / Rahul Jadhav - AccuKnox [Present] Ravi Ravindran - F5 [Present] Sagar Arora - OpenAirInterface [Present] Sana Tariq (Vice-Chair) - TELUS Sandeep Sharma - Aarna Networks Sebastian Scheele - Kubermatic Seshu Kumar Mudiganti - Wind River Sundar Nadathur - Intel Timo Perala - Nokia [Present] Victor Morales - Samsung [Present] A quorum of members was confirmed Zoom Attendance Log Name Organization Join Time Leave Time Duration Timo Perala timo.perala@nokia.com Nokia Corporation 9:02 AM 9:53 AM 0:50:48 Avinash Bhat - - 9:05 AM 9:38 AM 0:32:55 Tal Liron tliron@google.com Google LLC 9:02 AM 9:53 AM 0:50:23 Raj Panchapakesan raj@accuknox.com Accuknox 9:00 AM 9:53 AM 0:52:31 Ciaran Johnston ciaran.johnston@ericsson.com Ericsson 9:02 AM 9:53 AM 0:50:56 Istvan Kispal istvan.kispal@nokia-bell-labs.com Nokia Corporation 8:50 AM 9:53 AM 0:55:12 Alessandro Gerardo D'Alessandro alessandro.dalessandro@telecomitalia.it Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) S.p.A. 9:01 AM 9:53 AM 0:52:03 Alexis de Talhouët adetalhouet89@gmail.com Red Hat, Inc. 9:01 AM 9:53 AM 0:51:44 Eric Debeau eric.debeau@orange.com Orange SA 8:58 AM 9:53 AM 0:54:57 Hunor Demeter hunor.demeter@broadcom.com VMware, Inc. 9:02 AM 9:53 AM 0:50:56 Sagar Arora sagar.arora@openairinterface.org Individual 9:05 AM 9:53 AM 0:47:53 Rephael Benhamo - - 9:02 AM 9:53 AM 0:50:52 PMO Admin - - 9:07 AM 9:53 AM 0:45:46 Rahul Jadhav nyrahul@gmail.com Accuknox 9:02 AM 9:30 AM 0:27:52 Victor Morales chipahuac@hotmail.com Samsung Research America, Inc. 9:03 AM 9:53 AM 0:49:43 Ravi Ravindran r.ravindran@f5.com F5, Inc. 9:01 AM 9:53 AM 0:51:23 Borislav Glozman borislav.glozman@amdocs.com Amdocs Limited 8:59 AM 9:40 AM 0:40:56 Kandan Kathirvel kandank@google.com Google LLC 9:04 AM 9:55 AM 0:50:56 Stephen Wong stephen.kf.wong@gmail.com Futurewei Technologies, Inc. 9:04 AM 9:53 AM 0:49:22 Jennifer Bonner jbonner@linuxfoundation.org The Linux Foundation 8:55 AM 9:53 AM 0:58:08 Agenda/ Kandan Kathirvel (KK) reviewed the agenda for the meeting.There were no changes or additional topics added. Open Action Items: * Contributor Awards - open, pending presentation from Casey Cain on LFN Badge program. SIG Status SIG1- NetArch [Sana & Alexis] R3 requirements discussion. Formalizing a way to define scope. R3 prioriteis draft is available. Not sharing today, but link is available. Scoping, 6 user stories approved, for R3 and beyond. Also, starting to gather feedback from the community on an overall Nephio roadmap and prioritization. Lifecycle management. Gen AI use cases. Possible position paper to collect more industry feedback. Brainstorm how to facilitate discussion with Gen AI. Could be an opty at R3 meetup at ONES D&TF. Request to SIG1, presentation toipcs for Developer Summit - what are the open areas we need to close for R3, and identify post-R3 areas. Help is needed to from the workstream leads to organize the sessions. SIG2- Automation [Tal & Wim] Workstructure defined. Org and workbase more matrure and forward looking. Identified 4 vertical teams. Use case centered. ORAN and Service Assurance. Prefer work to be driven by use cases (customer focused). Porch updates - more testing leadign to bug identification. An issue for SIG2 and R3. Will try to identifiy the biggest pain points to tackle for R3. (note, includes some work with SIG3, with invitation to SIG4 to work together as well). SIG3- Release [Balaji & Radoslaw] Working closely with SIG2. Trying to incorporate GH actions. Want to automate dependency management. Testing dependabot now. Will incorporate into main GH repo once testing is complete. Aim to increase test methodology in general; under discussion. Also, branching strategy has been discussed. Aim to conclude this in the next 2 weeks. SIG4- Security [Rahul & Tom] Security Best Practices score. Identity & Access Management. Rx Scope. Attestation management under discussion. Workload identity will enable additional functionality. Events ONE Summit - D&TF - Registration Reminder https://events.linuxfoundation.org/one-summit-north-america/register/ Nephio R3 Developer Event ACTION: Kandan to put a draft agenda together. BoF sessions, sessions for each SIG 30-40 mins each. Demos of R2 are encouraged. LF Staff to help promote via additional channels for the Nephio audience. ACTION: Jenn will coordination between Nephio's agenda wiki and the LFN D&TF formalized process. Encourage to try to be flexibile in session development, not lmiiting to one day. If needed, then be open to the possiblity of flowing into Day 2/Friday. ORAN sessions try to coordiante a joint session. Here is the link for the O-RAN SC workshop --> https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/EV/O-RAN-SC+Workshop+At+ONE+Summit+2024 It is only on 29th April. Nephio India Summit Attendance is well ahead of projections. ACTION: Jenn to set up a Zoom for Nephio India Summit session. Other Updates LFN Best Practices Score - external judgement on the score. Pre release goal, in parallel to the release work on iteratively work to increase the score. Not a good reflection on the project, currently. Not an accurate reflection of the quality of the work and code that's currently going into the project. [Kandan] we should have a high bar. Pick this topic and brainstorm during the R3 Developer Summit. Action Item follow-up - Decision: TSC will anchor to US DST. Other Nephio groups may anchor to other time zones during DST as needed. Each individual SIG should be able to decide their own policy, not having a Nephio-wide prescriptive policy. ACTION: Jenn to udpate Groups.io calendar and LFX Meetings calendar to align with an anchor to US DST. Adjournment @ 9:55 AM PDT