2025-02-13 All Hands Minutes

Agenda

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Minutes

Technical Steering Committee

Two TSC meetings since last AHC: 2025-01-16 TSC Minutes 2025-02-06 TSC Minutes

• Introduction of Sandbox/Incubated/Graduated approach:

  • Work on new interim version of Onboarding.md: https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/pull/171

• First round of incubation: Fall24 release participants are “Incubation Candidates” - incubation decisions will be taken by TSC

  • For CallForwardingSignal, DeviceLocation, DeviceStatus, SimpleEdgeDiscovery, NumberVerification, OTPValidation, SimSwap, KnowYourCustomer, QualityOnDemand within an ongoing vote (due Friday, February 14th)

  • For CarrierBilingCheckOut, ConnectivityInsights, HomeDeviceQoD, PopulationDensityData the TSC asked the API Backlog Working Group to pre-check the remaining open points regarding existing implementations

• Proposed Wiki Structure with Sandbox and Incubated API Repositories

• was approved by TSC

• See also https://github.com/camaraproject/Governance/issues/170

• API Backlog

  • New repository QoSBooking approved, added to QualityOnDemand Sub Project

  • Update of way of working, e.g. see above PR with update of Onboarding.md documentation

• Release Management

  • Intensive work on meta-release Spring25, majority of M3 releases done, some critical candidates, details see below

  • M4 milestone fix at February 28th, release PRs must be ready be complete and ready for review to ensure a proper meta-release. Announcement planned at Cloud-native Telco Day April 1st, co-located event of KubeCon EU in London)

• Commonalities

  • r2.2 with release candidate for Spring25 (Commonalities 0.5.0) available since 2025-01-30

• Identity & Consent Management (ICM)

  • r2.2 with release candidate for Spring25 (ICM 0.3.0) available since 2025-01-30

Discussion

@Herbert Damker went over TSC updates which covered the new API incubated and sandbox repos and the wiki pages. Some APIs are independent sandboxes which means that they are individual and free on their own. There were also updates on the working groups for release management, commonalities, and idenity and consent management.

Marketing Updates

• Marketing materials:

  • CAMARA Presentation and Onepager will be updated 1 week before MWC Barcelona to have the current view on APIs, Sub Projects and logos; new versions will be available on GitHub and Website

  • Marketing concept 2025 available on GitHub

• Events:

  • MWC activities:

    • Share signage for members to use in their booth - available here: CAMARA @ MWC

• PoD at GSMA booth Mon 8-12, Wed 15-19, Thu 8-12

• Presentation at DevCon on 4 March 17:20

• Reception hosted by Red Hat and Telefonica on 4 March 19:00- RSVP at this link: CAMARA Community Reception @ MWC, Hosted by Red Hat

  • KubeCon activities:

    • Presentation at 1 April (Cloud Native Telco Day)

    • CAMARA booth at KubeCon 2 April - 4 April

  • 2025 planning: See list of events

• Website:

  • Update for API descriptions in progess:

    • API table agreed between CAMARA and Open Gateway, available at CAMARA Website

    • Developer-friendly API descriptions, implemented as sub-pages of CAMARA website, replacing current Sub Project pages, linked in API table:

      • Sub Projects shall deliver content until 14 Feb

      • Review by OGW product workstream and CAMARA API Backlog Working Group until 21 Feb

      • Example: Device Identifier

    • Links to Wiki (Sub Project and API), GitHub repositories (API), API releases, GSMA public launch status page

  • Thx to LF creative team for the support!

Discussion

@Markus Kümmerle provided the marketing updates which covered the upcoming CAMARA events. Currently obtaining the API descriptions and should be ready by MWC, Jill mentioned that this has been a large effort and that Markus has done a great job getting the descriptions from everyone.

Release Management

https://lf-camaraproject.atlassian.net/wiki/x/US7e

• 13 new APIs and 22 updated Fall24 APIs (of 25) are candidate for Spring25. Total of 35 APIs in 19 API repositories

• Two Sub Projects decided to skip the Spring25 and go to Fall25:

  • dedicated-networks, as still under design

  • simple-edge-discovery which will take the time to do a redesign to better align with CAMARA guidelines.

• Some APIs were moved to Sandboxed APIs (APIs not yet in any meta-release)

• M2 update

  • the public release PR of Commonalities has been presented for review

  • ICM public release PR will be there shortly.

  • these should include only documentation type of updates, not impacting API definitions.

• M3 (2025-01-24 for PRs) - preparation of API release-candidates

  • All API repositories have presented their release PR for M3 and have been reviewed by the release management team.

  • To date:

    • 13 API repositories (API release-candidates) have been released

    • 6 API repositories are working on the review comments (see Issues · camaraproject/ReleaseManagement) and target their pre-release by this friday. Most are expected to make it into the Spring25 meta-release.

• M4 / M5

  • Feb 28th and March 15th respectively - dates kept as planned.

  • All APIs that passed M3 should prepare the M4.

  • New stable APIs need to create and provide their test result statement

• All documentation is here: Release Management Working Group

Discussion

@Tanja de Groot provided an overview of the release management working group. By the next TSC call the 5 API repositories should complete the review process and move into the next stage.

Commonalities

Commonalities version 0.5.0-rc.1 published in release 2.2 on Jan 31, 2025 :

• https://lf-camaraproject.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYC3Aw

• to help subprojects align to Commonalities

  • Corrections added by latest PRs (related to subscriptions and documentation) will be included in the public release (r2.3)

• Issues review:

  • https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/273

deviations:

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

• - no conclusion

• https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/306

• - short time for review - possibly shift to March 2025 (to be ready for alpha release for Fall2025)

  • references in artifacts (like in #290) and other documents

• https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/297

• - no feedback

• https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/issues/204

• - no consensus

  • New issues are welcome to prepare the scope for Fall25.

• Announcements

  • Public release of Commonalities 0.5.0 expected in week 7

Discussion

@Rafal Artych provided an overview of the updates from the past month and there were no questions. The public release of Commonalities 0.5.0 should be ready by next week (02/17-02/21)

IdentityAndConsentManagement

• ICM 0.3.0 - preparing the scope for meta-release Spring25 #193
  Public Release PR:https://github.com/camaraproject/IdentityAndConsentManagement/pull/269

• Consent URL API vs OIDC consent collection #224

  • ICM work item

• New issue regarding consent in ICM Client Initiated Backchannel Authentication (CIBA).
  It seems that the flow as currently described is not GDPR compliant.
  https://github.com/camaraproject/IdentityAndConsentManagement/pull/268

Discussion

@Axel Nennker provided the updates for IdentityAndConsentManagement and there were no questions. The current use of CIBA is not following GDPR regulations, Axel asked everyone on the call to take a look and review.

Sub Project & Sandbox Updates

The sub projects codeowners provided their updates.

@Santiago Troncoso went more into depth for the WebRTC roadmap.

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