The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has received the fourth batch of specs from the Open RAN MoU Group – a project consisting of Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM, and Vodafone. TIP will use the documents as inputs for its OpenRAN Release Framework (what is this). The first Release of Technical Documents (to use the clunky yet proper name) arrived in June 2021. It was followed by a second in March 2022, and a third in April 2023. In order, these covered the main scenarios and technical requirements, then a suite focused on orchestration and infrastructure, as well as energy efficiency and sustainability goals, and then Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) and RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) improvements, as well as enhancements…