2024-03-07 TSC Minutes

Attendees & Representation

TSC Members may indicate their attendance by marking an X in the column to the right.

Community members may use @name tag to mark their attendance below the table. 

LF Staff:

Community: Tanja de Groot Rafal Artych Lazlo Suto Markus Kümmerle Ravi Shekar Nicholas Venezia Pierre Close Toyeeb Rehman Aleksandar Brankovic Ricardo Serrano Gutierrez Ramesh Shanmugasundaram Ramit Chawla (airtel)

Agenda

• Review and approval of previous meeting minutes
• Action Items Review
• General Topics
  • CAMARA Project Updates
  • API Backlog
  • Commonalities
  • Identity & Consent Management
  • Release Management
• Specific Topics
  • GSMA certification of CAMARA APIs
• Any Other Topics

Minutes

Review and approval of previous meeting minutes

• 2024-02-15 TSC Minutes
  
  • Agreed

Action Item Review

CAMARA Project Updates (Herbert Damker & all)

• Short recap from MWC (Markus Kümmerle)
  • Slide deck presented by Markus (to be added here)
    • 
    • OpenGateway was one of the buzz word
    • Monday Meet & Greet - good to meet even if the room was too far & small.
    • The Tuesday event was great (Thanks to sponsors Red Hat & Telefonica). 100+ people showed up with analyst, application developer, etc...
    • Wednesday DefCon with TMF was also very successful. Markus should be know as the 'Godfather of Camara'. Thanks for the GSMA for the work in Glomo award.
    • Henry added that the majority of DevCon attendee were developers. (around 120 developer for around 240 attendees).
      • 48 developers participated to the hackathon.
      • Henry will send attendance information for DevCon & Hackathon (UPDATE: see Henry's message about MWC Open Gateway TopLine Stats)
• Status of EasyCLA introduction (Casey Cain )
  • EasyCLA activation scheduled for March 11th (as agreed in TSC Feb 15th)
    • Casey provided links
      • LFX Insights | Enhance data-driven collaboration management (linuxfoundation.org) to check LF project status 
      • https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/v2/easycla/corporate-cla-managers CLA Managers
  • Open Office Hours  (Casey Cain to provide)
  • Several companies has already signed but some are still missing.
  • Herbert is working with LF team on a step-wise introduction (starting with selected repositories).

API Backlog (Ricardo Serrano Gutierrez )

• Proposal owner asked to postpone the two proposals from https://lists.camaraproject.org/g/tsc/message/139 to next TSC.
  • • Best interconnect APIproposal_Best_Interconnect by NoelWirzius · Pull Request #381 · camaraproject/WorkingGroups (github.com)
    • Device Quality Indicator Device_Quality_Indicator_Proposal by NoelWirzius · Pull Request #380 · camaraproject/WorkingGroups (github.com)
  • Need additional work to harmonize both proposal.
• Info about Network Slice Booking (Herbert): 
  • Thorsten Lohmar (Ericsson) joining as additional maintainers and Ricardo Serrano (Telefonica)  (After internal alignment Ricardo will only be joining as contributor) (cf. https://github.com/camaraproject/NetworkSliceBooking/pull/1)
    • Reminder: Maintainers for new sub projects will be initially nominated/approved by the TSC
  • First regular meeting will be on March 15th, 16:30 Beijing Time (8:30 UTC, 9:30 CET), details will be on wiki page of Network Slice Booking 

Commonalities (Rafal Artych )

• Issue #133 Adopt RFC 9457 error response format
  • Slides presented by Lyle Bertz within Commonalities working group: 20240304-CAMARA-Issue 133 - RFC 9457 URN Option.pdf
  • The issue will be closed with opening 2 more detailed issues for discussion in Commonalities:
    • Adding a parameter to the current response format that would provide link to detailed error documentation
    • Adopting RFC 9457 for error response format →Adopting RFC 9457 for Error Handling · Issue #157 · camaraproject/Commonalities (github.com). This is a 'burning' issue in term of impact on a CAMARA wide release.
      • Herbert Damker indicated that companies have to interact on these if they want a change to RFC 9457 by expressing their support within Issue #157 thread prior to the next Commonalities meeting [updated based on a suggestion received to clarify the needed action], else the current motion is to keep the current format and improve it gradually
• Issue #149 Consolidated issue for subscription discussion
  • the list of issues, based on previous discussions in Commonalities and subprojects
  • separated issues will be created to discuss each topic
  • will have impact on all APIs which have or plan to have explicit subscriptions
• Issue #127 Which error send back when Device Identifier not supported by API Server? includes questions on Device identification:
  • when another identifier is present in Access Token
  • when multiple contradictory identifiers are provided
  • what identifier should be mandatory or optional - Aggregator use case → Should be discussed but we need to have another issue to discuss this.
    • Rename the issue to avoid confusion (Ludovic Robert ) and continue to explore use cases.
      • Jose Luis Urien reminded that the device model cames from QoD and was not challenged by other projects.
    • Create a new issue about device identifier management/interoperability (Diego González Martínez ). Mark Cornall agrees on the criticality of this point regarding interoperability. 

Identity & Consent Management ( Axel Nennker )

• Herbert Damker provided update on behalf of Axel
• The working group agreed to concentrate the work on https://github.com/camaraproject/IdentityAndConsentManagement/pull/121
• Hot topics: Offline Access and Refresh Tokens (under review - planned to get in the profile), Purpose (have a dedicated parameter vs keep it is the scope as of today), Pairwise Pseudonymous Identifiers
  • Other points will be delayed to future release
• To keep the discussion on PRs more focused the working group agreed to create new issues for controversial discussion points

Release Management (tbc: Samuel Adeyemo )

• Initial infos by Herbert Damker (as Samuel isn't able to join)
  • Release Process 
    • Release process will contain about 17-22 weeks
    • Target to have first meta release in September => we have soon to kick-off
      • Use Open Source Summit event in Vienna (16-18 September 2024) as target to announce the release
      • Good timing to have API implementation available for MWC25
    • First milestones will include definition of Commonalities & ICM releases
    • More details with a review of the release process and milestones within next TSC
  • Lyle Bertz informed the CAMARA board that TMUS is working on a replacement for Marouane B as community release manager
  • Looking for (additional) volunteer for the release management project and as Community Release manager

GSMA certification of CAMARA APIs (Mark Cornall T Rehman )

•  Certification of 'live' implementations (26 in sum tested)
• 
• T Rehman presented the major issues faced during certification, including action points requested from TSC and its working groups
• Need larger diffusion because great work
• We need to have follow-up & tracking on this

Any Other Topic

• None due to lack of time

Next Meeting

• Next TSC Meeting will be on March 21st, 16:00 CET / 15:00 UTC / 07:00 PT
  • Herbert Damker  will not be available, Ludovic Robert will moderate
• Specific agenda topics:
  • Update from TMForum collaboration and how members are working in Catalysts and Operate APIs (as proposed by Olta Vangjeli within comments)

Action items