MEF LSO Legato SDK Grace Release

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Overview

This repository contains the release of the Legato SDK. The SDK includes APIs for Service Catalog, Service Order, and Service Inventory functions of the Service Orchestration Functionality (SOF) at the LSO Legato Interface Reference Point (IRP) as defined in the MEF LSO Reference Architecture.

Also included are Service schemas and Performance Monitoring definitions .

High-level release notes

• Internet Protocol schemas are revised and updated, together with their guide documents (MEF W102)
• Following documents have been published as MEF Standards:
  • MEF 99 - LSO Service Ordering Management API - Developer Guide
  • MEF 135 - LSO Legato Service Inventory Management API - Developer Guide
• New document:
  • MEF 55.1.1 Amendment to MEF 55.1: Reference Architecture and Framework - Terminology
• Updated documents:
  • MEF W128.1 - LSO API Security Profile
  • MEF W133.1 - Allegro, Interlude and Legato Fault Management and Performance Monitoring BR&UC
  • MEF W143 - Performance Monitoring API and Developer Guide
  • MEF W147 - Streaming Management API and Developer Guide

Scope

It includes API definitions for the following functional areas:

• Service Catalog - This includes support for
  • Service Specification - Retrieve operations only
  • Not in scope
    • Service Specifications - Create, Amend/Modify, Delete operations
    • Service Catalog, Service Category, Service Candidate, Job/Task
• Service Ordering - This includes support for
  • Service Order/OrderItem - Create, Retrieve operations only
  • Not in scope
    • Service Order/OrderItem - Amend/Modify/Cancel, Delete operations
• Service Inventory - This includes support for
  • Service - Retrieve operations only
  • Not in scope
    • Service - Create, Amend/Modify, Delete operations

In addition to the Service Provisioning APIs, the SDK includes the following MEF Service Specification schemas:

• SD-WAN Services
• Carrier Ethernet Services
• L1 Connectivity Services
• IP/IP-VPN Services

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

More information about the LSO Legato API reference point and it's roadmap can be found here:

https://wiki.mef.net/display/CESG/LSO+Legato

Maturity Level

The API files contained in this SDK are evolving and subject to change. They are based on documents that are either work in progress 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:

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

APIs and Developer Guides:

• Service Catalog API - early draft version, on hold
• MEF 99 - LSO Service Ordering Management API - Developer Guide W99 - Published Standard
• MEF 135 - LSO Legato Service Inventory Management API - Developer Guide - Published Standard

Service Schemas:

• SD-WAN (MEF W100) - work in progress - CfC#2
• Carrier Ethernet (MEF W101) - work in progress - CfC#2
• *Internet Protocol (MEF W102) - work in progress - CfC#4
• LSO Legato Service Provisioning Specification - L1 (MEF W103) - work in progress - CfC#3 - on hold

SOAM:

• MEF 133 - Allegro, Interlude and Legato Fault Management and Performance Monitoring BR&UC - Published Standard
• *MEF W133.1 - Allegro, Interlude and Legato Fault Management and Performance Monitoring BR&UC - early draft version, CfC#1
• MEF 136 - Service Function Testing Business Requirements and Use Cases - Published Standard
• *MEF W143 - Performance Monitoring API and Developer Guide - work in progress - CfC#2
• *MEF W147 - Streaming Management API and Developer Guide - work in progress - CfC#2
• Performance Monitoring reports and statistics definitions for Carrier Ethernet adn IP - early draft version, schemas only

Contents

This SDK contains the following items:

• COPYRIGHT - Copyright 2023 MEF Forum
• LICENSE - Contains a copy of the Apache 2.0 license
• README - This file
• serviceApi - Definitions of the APIs are found in this directory, provided as yaml files.
• serviceSchema - Contains JSON schema (draft 7) files for service specifications.
• documentation - documentation including API/Schema developer guides and openapi-tools generated API descriptions in markdown format
  • supportingStandards - The rest of documents and standards.
• generated - No longer provided - please visit LSO Marketplace to use self-blending possibility.

Issues, questions, and Feedback

Issues should be reported with the use of GitHub issues. Questions and feedback should be asked either at Legato SDK Discussions or directly to community_manager@mef.net.

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.

Reference Implementations

A reference implementation of the MEF Service Instantiation API may be available from the ONAP EXTAPI project.

https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/External+API+Framework+Project

Copyright

© MEF Forum 2023. All Rights Reserved.

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