MEF-LSO-Cantata-SDK - Grace Release

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Introduction

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

• Product Catalog
• Serviceability
  • Address Validation
  • Site Retrieval
  • Product Offering Qualification Management
• Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery
• Product Quote
• Product Order
• Product Inventory
• Trouble Ticket
  • Appointment
  • Work Order

It also provides Product Schemas for:

• Access E-Line
• Subscriber Carrier Ethernet (EPL, EPLAN, EPTREE, EVPL, EVPLAN, EVPTREE)
• Internet Access

High-level release notes

No new APIs were introduced.

There are the following document maturity changes:

• Documents published as MEF Standards:
  • MEF 123 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Order Management API -
    Developer Guide
  • MEF 124 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Trouble Ticket and Incident Management
    API - Developer Guide
  • MEF 137 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Appointment Management API - Developer
    Guide
  • MEF 134 - Billing and Invoice Business Requirements and Use Cases
• The following documents have their Letter Ballots open and will be likely
  shortly published as MEF standards:
  • MEF W125.0.1 - Subscriber Ethernet Schemas and Product Schema Guide -
    Amendment (examples)
  • MEF W139 - Internet Access Product Schemas and Developer Guide
  • MEF W141 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Billing Management API - Developer
    Guide
• Updated documents:
  • MEF W127 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Catalog - Business
    Requirements and Use Cases
  • MEF W142 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Catalog API & Developer Guide
  • MEF W110 - Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery - Business
    Requirements and Use Cases
  • MEF W160 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Offering Availability and
    Pricing Discovery API - Developer Guide
  • MEF W128.1 - LSO API Security Profile
• New documents:
  • MEF 55.1.1 Amendment to MEF 55.1: Reference Architecture and Framework -
    Terminology

The LSO Marketplace offers the possibility to blend the
desired APIs with chosen Products. Thus the APIs blended with all products that
were available in generated/staticBinding are no longer provided.

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

Maturity Level

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 is presented as follows:

(*) is used to mark an item that changes their maturity compared to previous
release.

• Product Catalog:
  • Business Requirements:
    • *MEF W127 - Draft Standard R2
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • *MEF W142 - work in progress - ready for CfC#2
• Address Validation, Site Query:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 79 - Published Standard
    • MEF 79.0.2 - Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • MEF 121 - Address Management - Published Standard
    • MEF 122 - Site Management - Published Standard
• Product Offering Qualification:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 79 - Published Standard
    • MEF 79.0.1 - Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • MEF 87 - Published Standard
• Quote:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 80 - Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • MEF 115: - Published Standard
• Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF *W110 - Draft Standard R2
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • MEF *W160: - work in progress - ready for CfC#2
• Order:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 57.2 - Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API:
    • MEF 123 - Published Standard
• Inventory:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 81, MEF 81.0.1 - Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API
    • MEF 116 - Published Standard
• Trouble Ticket:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 113 - Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API
    • MEF 124 - Trouble Ticket - Published Standard
    • MEF 137 - Appointment - Published Standard
• Billing:
  • Business Requirements:
    • MEF 134 - Published Standard
  • Developer Guide/API
    • MEF 141 - Published Standard
• Product Specifications:
  • MEF 125 - Subscriber Ethernet (EPL, EPLAN, EPTREE, EVPL, EVPLAN, EVPTREE) -
    Published Standard
  • *MEF 125.0.1 - Amendment to Subscriber Ethernet - Published Standard
  • *MEF W139 - Basic and Advanced Internet Access - Letter Ballot
• Security:
  • MEF 128 - Published Standard
  • *MEF W128.1 - work in progress - Letter Ballot ready

For high-level information about the release compatibility and roadmap please
visit: LSO Marketplace

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

Contents

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 APIs - yaml files with schemas
• documentation - All related standards and Developer Guides
  • productApi - API related documentation - API Developer Guides
  • productSchema - Product related documentation - Product schema guides
  • supportingStandards - The rest of the documents and standards.
• ProductSchema - Product Specification schemas
• generated
  • staticBinding - No longer provided - please visit
    LSO Marketplace to use self-blending possibility.
  • security - A not normative version of the standard APIs including the
    security profiles as required by MEF 128.1. Provided for evaluation.

Issues, Questions, and Feedback

Issues should be reported with the use of GitHub issues. Questions and feedback
should be asked either at
Cantata SDK Discussions
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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