ONAP External APIs expose the capabilities of ONAP. They allow ONAP to be viewed as a “black box” by providing an abstracted view of the ONAP capabilities.
They support that an external consumer of ONAP capabilities can be authenticated and authorized. They can also be used for connecting to systems where ONAP uses the capabilities of other systems.
Note 1: External API does not include all the B2B capabilities of exposure (e.g. partner management)
Note 2: The case where trusted providers of a service (e.g. operator owned transport, or cloud infrastructure) do not need to pass through External API.
For example, External APIs between ONAP and BSS/OSS allow Service Providers to utilize the capabilities of ONAP while using their existing BSS/OSS environment minimizing customization
It is envisioned that from a Service Provider to Partner Provider interaction context (i.e. MEF Interlude), the ONAP External API will support the following types of interacts:
•Service Provider controls aspects of the Service within the Partner domain (on behalf of the Customer) by requesting changes to dynamic parameters as permitted by service policies.
•Service Provider queries state of the Service.
•Service Provider requests change to administrative state or permitted attributes of a Service.
•Service Provider request creation of connectivity between two Service Interfaces as permitted by established business arrangement.
•Service Provider request instantiation of functional service components as permitted by established business arrangement.
•Service Provider queries the Partner for detailed information related to Services provided by the Partner to the Service Provider.
•Service Provider receives Service specific event notifications (e.g., Service Problem Alerts) from the Partner.
•Service Provider receives Service specific performance information from the Partner.
•Service Provider request Service related test initiation and receive test results from the Partner.DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR COMMENTS
The content of this template is expected to be fill out for M1 Release Planning Milestone.
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