Thanks Balázs, 

 

Editorial:  The group is call O-RAN Alliance and should be abbreviated O-RAN.

 

So..  suggestions including boiler plate…

 

<liaison>

>From Groups     netmod

>From Contact     Scott Mansfield

To Group             O-RAN Alliance (SDFG, WG1, WG4, WG5, WG9)

To Contacts        Brian Daly: [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> ; Xiaofei Xu: [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> ; Paul Smith, [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> ; Jinri Huang, [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> ; Anil Umesh [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> ; Shankar Venkataraman 
[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> ; Mohamad Yassin 
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; Kunihiko Teshima 
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; 
Elena Myhre [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; 
Abdellah Tazi [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; Dechao Zhang 
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; Reza 
Vaez-Ghaemi [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> 

Cc OPS ad, netmod wg

Response Contact            [email protected]

Technical Contact             [email protected]

Purpose               For information

Attachments      

Body

IETF NETMOD working group requests O-RAN avoid using deviations as part of its 
specification. When O-RAN plans to reuse specifications from other standard 
bodies or industry groups it should not remove or change functionality.  If 
variations are needed compared to a base model, O-RAN should ask the original 
group to include feature statements in the original YANG module.

 

As documented in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7950#section-7.20.3  “... 
deviations MUST never be part of a published standard, since they are the 
mechanism for learning how implementations vary from the standards.”

As documented in  
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01#section-5.8.1> 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01#section-5.8.1 
the usage of deviations would prevent:

*       Vendors to claim conformance to both O-RAN and 3GPP specifications 
(which are in some cases used as a base for the O-RAN YANG models)
*       Vendors to implement their own deviations for the same YANG schema nodes

 

Note: The problems with deviations exists even if YANG modules are used without 
YANG packages.

 

</liaison>

 

Regards,

-scott.

 

From: netmod <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Balázs Lengyel
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 11:04 AM
To: Jan Lindblad (jlindbla) <[email protected]>; Balázs 
Lengyel <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Petersen <[email protected]>; Jacqueline Beaulac S 
<[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [netmod] Liaison statement to ORAN - v2

 

Hello, 

Based on discussion here is version2 of the proposed liaison text:

 

Liaison text v2:

 

IETF NETMOD working group requests ORAN to avoid using deviations as part of 
its specification. When ORAN plans to reuse specifications from other standard 
bodies or industry groups it should not remove or change functionality.  If 
variations are needed compared to a base model, ORAN should ask the original 
group to include feature statements in the original YANG module.

 

As documented in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7950#section-7.20.3  “... 
deviations MUST never be part of a published standard, since they are the 
mechanism for learning how implementations vary from the standards.”

As documented in  
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01#section-5.8.1> 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01#section-5.8.1 
the usage of deviations would prevent:

*       Vendors to claim conformance to both ORAN and 3GPP specifications 
(which are in some cases used as a base for the ORAN YANG models)
*       Vendors to implement their own deviations for the same YANG schema nodes
*        

Note: The problems with deviations exists even if YANG modules are used without 
using YANG packages.

 

 

Regards Balazs

 

From: netmod <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On 
Behalf Of Jan Lindblad (jlindbla)
Sent: 2020. november 19., csütörtök 11:00
To: Balázs Lengyel <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Cc: Robert Petersen <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >; Jacqueline Beaulac S 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
>; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [netmod] Liaison statement to ORAN

 

Balázs, 

 

+1

I think this is an important message to O-RAN, and I know similar ideas have 
been up for discussions in other SDOs as well. I think your proposed way of 
conveying the message is good.  

 

Best Regards,

/jan

 

 

On 18 Nov 2020, at 09:09, Balázs Lengyel 
<[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

 

Hello,

In connection to the draft  
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01> 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01 I propose to 
send a liaison statement from IETF Netmod to ORAN.

 

The issue: 3GPP is standardizing a good number of YANG modules as part of the 
3gpp TS 28.541 and 28.623 ( 
<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=de649d27-81ffa5c5-de64ddbc-86073b36ea28-bd22f142f9b85dd6&q=1&e=5a78b7c7-b77b-4866-87e7-f206e86f6f2b&u=https%3A%2F%2Fforge.3gpp.org%2Frep%2Fsa5%2FMnS%2Ftree%2FRel17-draft%2Fyang-models>
 https://forge.3gpp.org/rep/sa5/MnS/tree/Rel17-draft/yang-models). 

ORAN plans to re-use this models, but possibly refine them in some ways. They 
are considering using deviations to do this. 

E.g. change config=true schemas node to config=false. This creates problems as 
documented in  
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01%23section-5.8.1>
 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01#section-5.8.1

 

-   Deviations by an SDO (standard defining organization) prevent 
implementations from reporting their own deviations for the same nodes.

-   Deviations by an SDO prevent implementations from conforming to the 
standards specified by both SDOs.

 

To avoid these problems I propose to send the following text to ORAN:

 

“IETF NETMOD working group requests ORAN to avoid using deviations as part of 
its specification. As documented in  
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01%23section-5.8.1>
 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-packages-01#section-5.8.1 
the usage of deviations would prevent:

*       Vendors to implement their own deviations for the same YANG schema nodes
*       Vendors to claim conformance to both ORAN and 3GPP specifications which 
are in some cases used as a base for the ORAN YANG models

Note: These problems with deviations exists even if YANG modules are used 
without using YANG packages.

Regards Balazs

 

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Balazs Lengyel                    Senior Specialist                       
Ericsson Hungary Ltd. 

Mobile: +36-70-330-7909              email:  
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 

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