DRAFT MINUTES
Attendees
Organization | Name |
Orange | |
Charter Communications | |
CableLabs | |
Telefonica | |
Vodafone | |
Ericsson | |
AT&T | |
T-Mobile US | |
KDDI | |
Slagen | |
Nokia | |
China Telecom | |
ZTE | |
KPN | |
GSMA | Reg Cox Mark Cornall |
Centilion | |
Chunghwa Telecom | |
Deutsche Telekom | |
MTN | |
China Mobile | @yinming Fu |
Verizon | |
PlektonLabs | |
TIM | fabrizio moggio Antonio Varvara |
Agenda Proposal
Approval of minutes of last conf. call
Recent Updates & Recap
Review of Action Points
Discussion
New APIs Proposals: #35 (5G New Calling), #50 (Device Management), #63 (IMEI Fraud), #17 (Consent and Measurement), #23 (Carrier Wholesale Pricing), #24 (Steering of Roaming Information), #95 (IoT SIM Status Mgmt API), #96 (IoT SIM Fraud Prevention API), #97 (IoT SMS send API), #115 (SIM Historical Information), #121 (User Account Spend Count), #122 (Number Of Cards Under User's ID), #126 (Facial Recognition), #127 (Network Health Assessment), #128 (Network Traffic Analysis)
Out of Agenda: #136 (eSIM Remote Management), #141 (Energy Footprint Notification), #143 (IoT Data Transfer Activation)
API Enhancements Proposals: #109 (Support application resource requirements in application profiles)
Governance: N/A
Closing Issues
AoB
Q&A
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To close the agenda SEVEN DAYS BEFORE the conf. call.
In case a WG participant wants to include a point in the agenda (e.g., present a new API proposal), this participant shall ensure the corresponding issue is opened in Github by then.
Exceptional situations will be treated separately.
New schedule of conf. calls **The meetings are to be held by Linux Foundation (Links available at GitHub and Confluence Backlog front pages)
2nd Thursday of the month (9-10:30 UTC)
4th Thursday of the month (15-16:30 UTC)
Send agenda to TSC mail list, to encourage more TSC member companies to join the call and provide comments when they identify APIs which are of interest for them.
New API proposals are included in backlog table when template PR is created, linking to the pending PR
PR will be merged as soon as ready for TSC, and should be merged before TSC review
API enhancements requires existing group’s validation. TSC is informed accordingly to validate
Link and status in backlog table will be updated accordingly
Issue to track API onboarding will be opened once new API is confirmed in TSC.
Approval of minutes of last conf. call
Minutes of last API backlog WG call available here
DECISION: Approved
Recent Updates & Recap
TSC meeting 21st November:
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Issue # | Company | Summary | Status Update | ||||||
Centillion | New Proposal for Authorization for Advertisements, Advertisements Consent, and Measurement The API template is available in PR#73. | Published new standards, Next meeting (this time) Nick will bring all the documentation and present everything putted together The issue is not eligible to be closed yet. Pending to provide a concrete API description into the API proposal template Action: Clarifying with interested parties whether this may be a possible API or a Framework etc. AP: provide required information and examples MEETING UPDATE: No update | |||||||
TelecomsXChange | New Proposal: Carrier Wholesale Pricing The API template is available in PR#77 First YAML available here | The issue was not treated in this conference call The issue is not eligible to be closed yet. ACTION: Backlog Governance to reach up TelecomXchange to see if the could connect next meetings MEETING UPDATE: No update | |||||||
Netfocusin Technologies | New Proposal: Steering of Roaming Management The API template is available in PR#78
| Does not seem to be in the Scope of Camara. Not an east-west (not between telcos) Already included in 3GPP as technical viable (provided in comment) The issue is not eligible to be closed yet. ACTION: Check for support/commitment from the partners (technical implementation approach important) Meeting Update: No update | |||||||
China Mobile | 5G New Calling The API template is available PR#31 | Telefonica and Vodafone willing to see the presentation to check whether there is support for this To be treated in next session (still pending for providing extra info) Presentation of current proposal was shared in the meeting. Slides to be included in PR#31. G. Murat Karabulut asked about the proposal been part of WebRTC enhancement or new API → new API. Eric Murray asked about examples of 3rd parties in this API flow → app invoquing API to request or activate features, which can be enabled or not by the telco. Mark Cornall raised the existance of a 5G New Calling project in GSMA: https://www.gsma.com/get-involved/gsma-foundry/5g-new-calling/ & 5GNCTF Meeting#1 ACTION: Operators open to comment/ask for clarification and support the API. Eric Murray asks for user stories that can explain the behaviour of the proposed API, as not clear how this interacts with the proper 5G New Calling standard and how it solves the features that are proposed. AP for Haojie Li https://github.com/camaraproject/WebRTC/issues/52 to discuss in WebRTC about relationship new information to be uploaded and treated in next session Recommendation is that China Mobile join regular WebRTC call to discuss 5G New Calling proposal there. MEETING UPDATE: No updates | |||||||
Verizon | Device Management The API template is available PR#30 | The issue was not treated in this conference call The issue is not eligible to be closed yet. Action to contact Verizon to ensure participation in next backlog meeting API proposal presented by Mahesh Chapalamadugu , clarified this proposal is targeted for IoT device management to activate/deactivate/manage the connection of those devices. ACTION:Mahesh Chapalamadugu to upload current yaml for clarification in PR#30, and present again in next meeting. Mahesh Chapalamadugu AP to upload documentation Slides presented by Mahesh Chapalamadugu & @joshua Slide will be uploaded and reviewed offline before approval MEETING UPDATE: No update | MTN | New API proposal Review match with other Device management APIs (home devices or similar) and IoT/Device status (AP Backlog: contact Mahesh) Also ensure this is a proper telco capacity to be consumed by developers, in comparison with Operate API (TM Forum) that are related to Aggregators. | |||||
MTN | New API proposal - IMEI Fraud The API template is available PR#64 | This API was presented already and included in an existing group but no work was done so discontinued. Now Rebecca is presenting the proposal seeking for support DeviceCheck GSMA proposal overlaps this IMEI Fraud will offer more information to developers than GSMA Device Check service. MTN and other supporters should meet with GSMA to discuss if proceeding with this API within CAMARA still makes sense. Request for meeting already sent by GSMA to MTN Outcome of meeting awaited before deciding if this API proposal should proceed in CAMARA
Eric Murray : (IMEI status) service related, but GSMA is ok for this proposal. ACTION: Pending from MTN for moving on with this API. Maybe to be included in the Device Identifier family. @reg no further information from MTN, consider to de-prioritize, pending to further update Any other operator open to take the lead of this API is welcomed MEETING UPDATE: No update (pending) | |||||||
China MobileIP High-throughput Elastic Network Telecom | IoT SIM Status Mgmt API | China Telecom | IoT SIM Status Mgmt API The API template is available in PR#105 | Relationship with device management proposal, to confirm relationship. AP: China Telecom MEETING UPDATE: Meeting considered that this proposal has some overlap with the Device Management proposal from Verizon APs: China Telecom China Telecom to discuss with Verizon (Mahesh Chapalamadugu) bringing this API into scope of Device Management API proposal. Discuss initially within Issue #50. If scopes can be merged, Verizon can update PR#30 accordingly; The API template is available in PR#90 | Supporting document (presented) https://github.com/camaraproject/APIBacklog/raw/0a447dd4c53d0c675f8d72fc5622ff65eb48f7e3/documentation/SupportingDocuments/APIproposal_IP-high-throughput-elastic-network_ChinaMobile.pptx Jan Friman asked about the relation of this proposal with current CAMARA’s APis dedicated to network config (QoD, slice booking…). @qiuhai explained that this proposal is focused on enabling new network technologies like Srv6 Mark Cornall shared comments about the technology dependence on QoD solutions Kevin Smith & Jorge Garcia Hospital asked for more details on the difference with current proposals Pending review from Kevin about responses in the PR. Jorge Garcia Hospital raised concerns about technology dependancy in this API proposal MEETING UPDATE: Jianfeng Huang presented an update of the proposal. API will now be technology agnostic. Mark Cornall agrees with proposed modifications No other objections to modified proposal raised in the meeting AP: China Mobile
DECISION: If update is done by end Friday , proposal can be put to to TSC meeting on Thursday for final approval. Otherwise will need to be meeting. | Relationship with device management proposal, to confirm relationship. AP: China Telecom Meeting considered that this proposal has some overlap with the Device Management proposal from Verizon APs: China Telecom
Moyuan Sun proposal to be modified to “communication capabilities” to avoid overlap with Device Management API proposal 50 Slides presented in the meeting (to be updated into the API proposal documentation) Eric Murray G. Murat Karabulut New proposal focused on the management of services of devices (activate/deactivate) but still in relation with Device Management concept Mahesh Chapalamadugu (Verizon) to confirm if both proposals may still be merged | |||
China Telecom | IoT SIM Fraud Prevention API The API template is available in PR#103 | Jorge Garcia Hospital is it required to create a new set of APIs only for IoT devices or can they live in the existing groups? Eric Murray agrees, device status can take in charge of this new parameters, check first with this subgroup https://github.com/camaraproject/DeviceStatus MEETING UPDATE: Meeting agreed with China Telecom that this proposal does not fit within Device Status sub-project APs: China Telecom
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China Telecom | IoT SMS send API The API template is available in PR#104 | Jorge Garcia Hospital Mahesh Chapalamadugu requires to validate this proposal with existing SMS Send API https://github.com/camaraproject/ShortMessageService AP: China Telecom MEETING UPDATE: Proposal to be withdrawn → AP to take it out | |||||||
Verizon | Support application resource requirements in application profiles The API template is available in PR#110 | METING UPDATE: No update | |||||||
China Unicom | SIM Historical Information The API template is available in PR#114 | METING UPDATE: Eric Murray comment: Sounds like a “historical SIM Swap” API. Discuss with SIM Swap sub-project. APs: China Unicom
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China Unicom | User Account Spend Count The API template is available in PR#120 | METING UPDATE: Use case appears to be a KYC use case APs: China Unicom
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China Unicom | Number Of Cards Under User's ID The API template is available in PR#119 | METING UPDATE: Use case appears to be a KYC use case APs: China Unicom
| China Mobile | Facial Recognition The API template is available in PR#130 | EasyCLA to be solved
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China Mobile | Facial Recognition The API template is available in PR#130 | EasyCLA to be solved METING UPDATE: material presented by YinMing Fu. Eric Murray proposes in 126 to consider this APi as part of already existing ModelAsA Service APi group (also from China Mobile) YinMing Fu considers APi separated as MaaS focused on LLM models Eric Murray raises issues on match with CAMARA authentication, privacy and identity existing mechanisms to be applied in this API Jorge Garcia Hospital raised question on the telco capabilities been leveraged | |||||||
China Unicom | Network Health Assessment The API template is available in PR#129 | EasyCLA to be solved | |||||||
China Unicom | Network Traffic Analysis The API template is available in PR#129 | EasyCLA to be solved | |||||||
China Unicom | eSIM Remote Management The API template is available in PR#140 | ||||||||
TIM | Energy Footprint Notification The API template is available in PR#142 | ||||||||
TIM | IoT Data Transfer Activation The API template is available in PR#144 |
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