General Updates

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Sub Projects

• 1147 people from 402 companies have joined CAMARA

• 1751 people and 370 companies are in (first) talks

• Logos see landscape

• New General Member

  • n/a

• New Participating Organizations

  • Lytn

  • M1

  • Plusmo

  • Pryvx

Updated: Oct 7, 2024 

@Markus Kümmerle 

• EasyCLA deployed

  • If you’re not set up on EasyCLA yet, make sure you do a test PR in the GitHub EasyCLA repo.

  • Report issues to support@camaraproject.org

• Wiki migration to Atlassian Cloud

  • If you are having trouble logging in or editing the wiki, please contact support@camaraproject.org

Updated Oct 7, 2024 

@Casey Cain @Evan Harrison 

• TSC Election 2024 has been started, currently nomination phase until October 18th. Eligible for nomination and voting are Maintainers of Sub Projects and Working Groups (10 “Sub Project Representatives”) and End User Council (3 “End User Representatives”). More information on TSC Election Overview.

• Introduction of approach for (new) API Repositories with Sandbox / Incubated / Graduated with three stages of maturity agreed, draft PR to change Project Charter and ProjectStructuresAndRoles in work.

• API Backlog 

  • TSC approved DedicatedNetworks and CustomerInsights (originally proposed under the name “Telco Index”) as new API repositories

  • Repository QualityByDesign created (as approved in TSC 2024-09-05) as part of ConnectivityInsights Sub Project.

• Commonalities

  • Scope definition for Spring25 release discussed, see Commonalities/issues/273

• Identity & Consent Management (ICM)

  • Scope definition for Spring25 release discussed, see IdentityAndConsentManagement/issues/193

• Release Management

  • Spring25

    • M0: Spring25 meta-release kickoff declared by TSC on October 3rd.

    • M1: Exception decided that it is sufficient to have PRs with the important changes ready by M1.

  • Fall24

    • M5 delivered on time (2024-09-15) for announcements in many public events in September

    • M6: see Release Management report below.

Updated Oct 10, 2024

@Herbert Damker 

• Review of updates from recent board meeting:

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SvPwCfrRBFyUW1Wed2AP3l7W4BtTJYGDSQGO5QizZ0U/edit#slide=id.g309fa4eda6a_0_0

Additional updates:

• CAMARA Powerpoint template is being updated; new version will be available soon.

• Marketing concept finalized: https://github.com/camaraproject/Marketing/blob/main/documentation/MarketingMaterial/CAMARA%20MarketingConcept.pptx

• Events:

  • NetworkX and MWC Las Vegas happening this week

  • Next big event is KubeCon NA Nov. 12-15

• 2025 planning is in progress, including priority events

• Content available in repository here: https://github.com/camaraproject/Marketing

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

@Markus Kümmerle 

@Jill Lovato

• Meta-release Fall24

  • M5 - Fall24 meta-release publication: delivered on time on 2024-09-15

  • M6 - Feedback integration ongoing - preparation of r2.1 of the RM process for 2024-10-31 with main updates e.g.

    • improvements on the API release tracker

    • updates on the patch release process

    • introduction of release numbering for Commonalities, ICM and Release Management to be able to separate from versioning their documentation.

• Meta-release Spring25

  • M0 - Spring25 meta-release kick-off declared by TSC on 2024-10-03.

  • M1 - delayed by 2 weeks to 2024-10-31 due to delay impacts from Fall24.

    • Exception: Commonalities and ICM will not yet have their pre-release ready but will produce PRs for the M1 date. The actual M1 pre-release as soon as possible after that.

    • From 2024-10-15 for critical PRs, and from M1 for other PRs, Sub Project teams are asked to review (and comment) the PRs.

• Supporting documentation (for reference)

  • One stop documentation is here: Release Management Working Group

  • API release documentation is available in GitHub: ReleaseManagement/documentation

  • API versioning guidelines are provided in the Commonalities API Design Guidelines (Chapter 5), further details are within the Release Management wiki.

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

@Tanja de Groot 

• Scope definition for Spring25 release, see https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/273

• Issues:

  • All issues from the scope are marked with Spring25 label

  • Critical issues are additionally marked with priority label

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/302

  • PR that covers updates to subscriptions & notifications Commonalities/pull/313

  • Clean up and redesign of API Design Guidelines Commonalities/issues/306

• Announcements

  • Correction of version 0.4.0 needed https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/301 PR: Commonalities/pull/311 patch release of Commonalities (no impact on APIs)

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

@Rafal Artych 

• Documents

  • Live table for API backlog available here. Stable version.

  • Accepted API proposals stored here. 

• New Issues

• Discussion

  • OGW Drop #4 APIs:  #35 (5G New Calling),  #50 (Device Management), #63 (IMEI Fraud), #91 (Fixed lines in Device Location APIs), #93 (Line Eligibility for Carrier Billing API) 

  • Other APIs:  #17 (Consent and Measurement),  #23 (Carrier Wholesale Pricing),  #24 (Steering of Roaming Information), #89 (IP High-throughput Elastic Network) 

  • Governance: #4 (Structures and roles, RACI, Maintainers initiative)

• PRs

  • Application templates for those API proposals which have not been discussed yet in TSC + new API Backlog table with reduction of columns (New APIbacklog.md by TEF-RicardoSerr · Pull Request #80 · camaraproject/APIBacklog · GitHub).

• Announcements

  • Backlog meeting duration will be extended from 1 to 1:30:

    1. 2nd Thursday of the month (10-11:30 CET)

    2. 4th Thursday of the month (15-16:30 CET)

  • Changes in the way of approving new API proposals are under review, following sandbox approach.

  • Closing issues being treated in the TSC:

    • #20 (Best Interconnection), #22 (Capability and Runtime Restrictions), #18 (Receive SMS),  #54 (Number Recycling), #70 (Quality by Design), #34 (Shutdown Service Status), #41 (Telco Scoring), #60 (Dedicated Networks), #66 (network Info), #68 (Consent URL),

  • Proposals to be discussed in next TSC: 

    • Consent URL (#68)

    • Model As A service (LLM proposal) (#83)

    • Capability and Runtime Restrictions API (#22)

  • Info: New repositories created for DedicatedNetwork 60, CustomerInsight 41, QualityByDesign 70

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

@Jorge Garcia Hospital

• Public release r0.2.1 as part of Meta-Release Fall24 available

• Scope definition for Spring25 release (IdentityAndConsentManagement 0.3.0)

• Proposed candidate topics:

  • Documentation improvements

    • Improve Access and User Consent document #182

    • The wording in the Mandatory template for info.description is unclear #178

    • ICM text should not state that Telco Operators are the ones providing these APIs #190

    • Clarity on the use of login_hint #191

    • Generalize documents by using "API provider" rather than "Telco Operator" #200

    • New sections with error scenarios #211

  • CAMARA Security and Interoperability Profile - Restrictions

    • Proposal to Mandate Use of Signed Authentication Requests for CIBA #194

    • Spring25: Proposal to RECOMMEND the use of Signed Request Object for the /authorize endpoint to prevent abuse #205

  • New features

    • DPoP support in CAMARA OIDC Profile #125

    • Allow to use operator_token (from TS43) to identify device on authentication request #145

       

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

@Axel Nennker 

Updated: Oct 8, 2024 

@Pedro Díez García 

Updated: Oct 7, 2024 

@fabrizio moggio 

Updated: Oct 8, 2024 

@Pedro Díez García 

Updated: Jun 13, 2024 

@Hanbai

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

@Mahesh Chapalamadugu @Ben Hepworth

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

(initial entry added by @Herbert Damker) @Pedro Díez García

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

(initial entry added by @Herbert Damker) @Thorsten Lohmar

Updated: Oct 9, 2024 

@Eric Murray 

Updated: Oct 8, 2024 

@Jose Luis Urien Pinedo 

Updated: Oct 10, 2024

@Akos Hunyadi

@Rafal Artych  

Updated: Oct 9, 2024 

@Ludovic Robert

Updated: Aug 5, 2024 

@cristina.santanacasillas 

Updated: Sep 10, 2024 

@Jesús Peña García-Oliva 

Updated: Oct 8, 2024 

 @Toshi Wakayama 

Updated: Jul 8, 2024 

@Fan Yang @Fernando Prado Cabrillo 

Updated: Oct 9, 2024 

@Christopher Aubut @Randy Levensalor 

Updated: Jun 13, 2024 

@Shuting Qing 

Updated: Oct 9, 2024 

@Ludovic Robert

Updated: Oct 9, 2024 

@Ludovic Robert

Updated: Sep 11, 2024 

@Jorge Garcia Hospital 

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

@Herbert Damker 

Updated: Jun 13, 2024 

@Fan Yang 

Updated: Jul 10, 2024 

@Ramit Chawla

Updated: Jun 13, 2024 

@Kevin Smith 

Updated: Oct 9, 2024 

@Ludovic Robert

Updated: Sep 12, 2024 

@Dan Xu

Updated: Sep 12, 2024 

@Dan Xu

Updated: Oct 8, 2024

 @Santiago Troncoso