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[dispatch] Re: New work: well-known URI for API change advisories (draft-callec-api-advisory-00)

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Subject: [dispatch] Re: New work: well-known URI for API change advisories (draft-callec-api-advisory-00)
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Matéo Callec <mateo=40callec.net@dmarc.ietf.org> writes:
> *  https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-callec-api-advisory/ 
>
> The problem: API providers regularly make changes that affect their
> consumers (deprecations, pricing changes, security advisories,
> breaking changes) but there is currently no machine-readable,
> standardized way to publish or discover these events. Consumers today
> rely on monitoring blogs, mailing lists, and dashboards, none of which
> are programmable.

This mechanism seems to assume that the API in question is accessible
through one, or just a small number, of DNS names.  So I would tend to
describe its scope as "service providers" rather than "API providers",
since I think of an "API" as a defined interface, which many providers
use to provide service to many clients.

Perhaps the narrower sense of API is a large enough market to support a
specialized mechanism for publishing advisories.

Dale

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