General Updates

Working Groups

Sub Projects & Sandbox API Repositories

• 1249 people from 422 companies have joined CAMARA

• 2169 people and 522 companies are in (first) talks

• Logos see landscape

• New Premier / General Member

  • n/a

• New Participating Organizations

  • ApisTraining

  • BT Group

  • XFlow

Updated: Feb 10, 2025 

@Markus Kümmerle 

• If you require support or meeting changes, please send an email to support@camaraproject.org

Updated Feb 13, 2025 

@Casey Cain @Evan Harrison 

• 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: Update API-onboarding Document to comply with current API Backlog process and Sandbox / Incubated approach by jgarciahospital · Pull Request #171 · camaraproject/Governance

  • 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 Next steps to execute the Sandbox / Incubated approach · Issue #170 · camaraproject/Governance

• 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

Updated Feb 13, 2025

@Herbert Damker 

• 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: https://community.linuxfoundation.org/events/details/lfhq-camara-project-presents-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!

Updated: Feb 11, 2025 

@Markus Kümmerle 

@Jill Lovato

• 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

  • ICM public release PRs is available.

  • Commonalities public release PR is planned for next week.

• 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. Final decision in next week TSC meeting.

• 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

Updated: Feb 13, 2025 

@Tanja de Groot 

• 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:

  • Commonalities 0.5.0 - prepare the scope · Issue #273 · camaraproject/Commonalities deviations:

    • Support of Multi-SIM lines in CAMARA APIs · Issue #302 · camaraproject/Commonalities - no conclusion

    • Cleanup and slim down design guidelines document · Issue #306 · camaraproject/Commonalities - 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

    • Guidelines for asynchronous response in callback · Issue #297 · camaraproject/Commonalities - no feedback

    • remove empty security scheme · Issue #204 · camaraproject/Commonalities - no consensus

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

• Announcements

  • Public release of Commonalities 0.5.0 expected in week 7

• Documents

  • Live table for API backlog available here. Updated version including new information.

  • Accepted API proposals stored here. 

• 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), #115 (SIM Historical Information), #121 (User Account Spend Count), #122 (Number Of Cards Under User's ID), #127 (Network Health Assessment), #128 (Network Traffic Analysis), #136 (eSIM Remote Management), #143 (IoT Data Transfer Activation), #154 (QoS Booking), #157 (Voice Notification), #160 (Voice Verification Code), #163 (Dynamic Connectivity Data)

  • API Enhancements Proposals: N/A

• Announcements

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

  • Follow-up of approved APIs during onboarding phase

  • Closing issues as validated by TSC or in process of been resolved (APs pending):

    • #22 (Capability and Runtime Restrictions), #18 (Receive SMS),   #41 (Telco Scoring), #20 (Best Interconnection), #68 (Consent URL), #83 #85 #86 #87 (Model as a Service), #91 (Fixed lines in Device Location APIs), #93 (Line Eligibility for Carrier Billing API), #89 (IP High-throughput Elastic Network), #141 (Energy Footprint Notification), #126 (Facial Recognition)

  • Proposals to be discussed in next TSC: 

    • QoS Booking (#154)

  • Info: New repositories under creation for

    • Facial Recognition (126)

    • Energy Footprint Notification (141)

Updated: Jan 9, 2025 

@Jorge Garcia Hospital

• 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

Updated: Feb 13, 2025

@Axel Nennker

Updated: Feb 11, 2025 

@Pedro Díez García 

Updated: Jan 8, 2025 

@fabrizio moggio 

Updated: Dec 12, 2024 

@G. Murat Karabulut @Lyle Bertz

Updated: Feb 11, 2025 

@Pedro Díez García 

Updated: Jun 13, 2024 

@Hanbai

Updated: Oct 10, 2024 

@Mahesh Chapalamadugu @Ben Hepworth

Updated: Feb 11, 2025 

@Pedro Díez García

Updated: Feb 12, 2025 

@Thorsten Lohmar

Updated: Feb 13, 2025 

@Eric Murray 

Updated: Feb 11, 2025 

@Jose Luis Urien Pinedo 

Updated: Feb 13, 2025

@Akos Hunyadi

@Rafal Artych  

@Maximilian Laue

@Sachin kumar

Updated: Feb 13, 2025 

@Ludovic Robert

Updated: Aug 5, 2024 

@cristina.santanacasillas @Kevin Smith

Updated: Dec 12, 2024 

TBD

Updated: Sep 10, 2024 

@Jesús Peña García-Oliva 

Updated: Feb 13, 2025 

 @Toshi Wakayama 

Updated: Dec 11, 2024 

@Fernando Prado Cabrillo @Stefano Falsetto

Updated: Nov 12, 2024 

(initial entry added by @Herbert Damker)

Updated: Feb 13, 2025 

@Christopher Aubut @Randy Levensalor @Ben Hepworth @Justin Pace

Updated: Jun 13, 2024 

@Shuting Qing 

Updated: Feb 13, 2025 

@Ludovic Robert

Updated: Sep 11, 2024 

@Jorge Garcia Hospital 

Updated: Feb 13, 2025 

@Herbert Damker 
@Masaharu Hattori

Updated: Jun 13, 2024 

@Fan Yang 

Updated Dec 12, 2024 :

@Ben Hepworth @Mahesh Chapalamadugu @Kevin Smith

Updated: Jul 10, 2024 

@Ramit Chawla

Updated: Jun 13, 2024 

@Kevin Smith 

Updated: Sep 12, 2024 

@Dan Xu

Updated: Sep 12, 2024 

@Dan Xu

Updated: Feb 12, 2025

 @Santiago Troncoso