Jane Shen, Jiafeng Zhu, Jeff Brower, Neal Oliver, Tim Epkes, Dan Druta, Swarup Nayak, Ike Alisson, Tina Tsou
Meeting Notes - Zhu, Brower
Suggest creating rules for API portal, get consensus across AKraino members.
Swarup - using ETSI MEC APIs
Group discussion about API typing: Neal - protobufs support strong typing. Tim - Python added a library for strong typing to improve anti-hacking/exploit security (called pydantic)
Jane - asked about EALTE resource management APIs
Jane - showed where EALTE would fit in API portal mindmap diagram
Jane - talked about OpenAPI, they use a combination of REST (json + yaml), gRPC (protobuf), and configuration file
Ike - mentioned TMForum “open digital architecture” and API interoperability
Jane - inter MEC communication (between edge nodes) should possibly be included
Jane - they are publishing ETSI MEC APIs in json / yaml formats
Neal - ETSI MEC supports PoCs, sort of like Akraino blueprints, shared an example slide
Tim - mentioned mockup testing
Jane - API portal can also list companies that commercially support ETSI MEC APIs, and which standards bodies (SBOs) they support
Jeff - suggested creating in advance criteria / guidelines for listing companies on the API portal, to avoid fights and finger pointing issues
Jane - draft with all co-author contributions integrated is complete, will publish Google doc link for review
Jane - review at this point limited to co-authors and subcommittee members
Jane - we should look organization, logical flow, content; grammar review later
Ike -- mentioned Telstra’s “network as a service”