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This repository contains the MEF LSO Cantata SDK. It includes API definitions for the following functional areas:

• Serviceability
  • Address
  • Site Retrieval
  • Product Offering Qualification Management
• Product Quote
• Product Order
• Product Inventory
• Trouble Ticket

It also provides Product Schemas for:

• EPL
• EPLAN
• EPTREE
• EVPL
• EVPLAN
• EVPTREE
• Basic Internet Access (member contribution)

• All APIs have been reviewed and updated to follow their respective Business Requirements & Use Cases and Developer Guides documents
• New documents:
  • MEF W128 - MEF W128 - Draft Release 1 LSO API Security Profile - Implementer's Guide.pdf
• New supporting informational documents:
  • Example Dynamic Binding Implementation.pdf
  • LSO Payload Handbook CfC#1.docx

NOTE: Please note the Readme files in particular productApi directories to see detailed release notes per API.

The API files contained in this SDK are evolving and subject to change. They are based on documents that are either ratified standards or draft standards that have not yet completed the review cycles and approvals necessary to achieve the status as a MEF standard. MEF is making these publicly available at this time to invite wider industry review.

The maturity per functionality presents as follows:

• Address Validation, Site Query:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 79 - Published Standard
    • *MEF 79.0.2 - Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • *MEF W121 - Address Management - Letter Ballot pending
    • *MEF W122 - Site Management - Letter Ballot pending
• Product Offering Qualification:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 79 - Published Standard
    • MEF 79.0.1 - Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • *MEF W87 - Letter Ballot pending
• Quote:
  • Business Requirements:
    • *MEF 80 - Letter Ballot pending
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • *MEF W115: - Letter Ballot pending
• Order:
  • Business Requirements:
    • *MEF W57.2 - work in progress, Draft Release 3
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • *MEF W123 - work in progress - ready for CfC#2
• Inventory:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 81, MEF 81.0.1 Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API
    • *MEF W116 - Letter Ballot pending
• Trouble Ticket:
  • Business Requirements:
    • *MEF W113 - work in progress, Draft Release 2
  • Developer Guide/API
    • *MEF W124 - work in progress - ready for CfC#2
• Product Specifications:
  • *Access E-Line - MEF W106 work in progress, CfC#2 reviewed
  • *Subscriber Ethernet (EPL, EPLAN, EPTREE, EVPL, EVPLAN, EVPTREE) - MEF W125 work in progress, CfC#1 reviewed
  • *Basic Internet Access - schemas only (member contribution)

(*) is used to mark item that changes their maturity comparing to previous Billie release.

For details on the maturity map and the roadmap for future releases please refer to LSO Cantata SDK Home Page on the MEF WIKI.

This SDK contains the following items:

• COPYRIGHT - Copyright 2022 MEF Forum
• LICENSE - Contains a copy of the Apache 2.0 license
• README - This file
• productApi - Definitions of the API are found in this directory
  • inventory - Contains the API definitions necessary for inter-carrier retrieval of Product Inventory
  • order - Contains the API definitions for inter-carrier service ordering capability
  • quote - Contains the API definitions for inter-carrier service quotation capability
  • serviceability - Contains the APIs that allow the Service Provider or Buyer to perform:
    • address - Retrieve Address information including exact formats for Addresses known to the Seller
    • offeringQualification - Determine whether it is feasible for the Seller to deliver a particular Product with a given configuration to a particular geographic location if applicable.
    • site - Retrieve Service Site information including exact formats for Service Sites known to the Seller
  • troubleTicket - Create and manage Trouble Tickets
• documentation - All related standards and Developer Guides
  • productApi - API related documentation - Developer Guides
    • inventory - MEF W116 Developer Guide
    • order - MEF W123 Developer Guide
    • quote - MEF W115 Developer Guide
    • serviceability/address - MEF W121 Developer Guide
    • serviceability/offeringQualification - MEF W87 Developer Guide
    • serviceability/site - MEF W122 Developer Guide
    • troubleTicket - MEF W124 Developer Guide
  • productSchema - product related documentation
    • carrierEthernet - MEF W106 and MEF W125 Product Schema Guides
    • ip - a working in progress version of Basic Internet Access product schema
  • supportingStandards - The rest of documents and standards.
• ProductSchema - Product Specification schemas for:
  • carrierEthernet - Carrier Ethernet product Schemas
• generated/staticBinding - contains automatically generated (with help of the open source Sonata Blending Tool), not normative static bindings of envelope APIs with Product Specifications. The Address, Site and Trouble Ticket APIs are not included as they do not carry product information.
  • full - contains static binding of all available product schemas
  • carrierEthernet - contains static binding of only CarrierEthernet products
  • ip - contains static binding of only IP products

Issues should be reported with the use of issues. Questions and feedback should be asked either at Cantata SDK Community or directly to [email protected].

NOTE: All artifacts included in this repository have line numbers. When referring to specific content in any of these artifacts, please quote the line numbers to which you are referring.

The MEF LSO Cantata SDK is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

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