[httpapi] Liaison with OpenAPI Initiative

[Darrel Miller <[e-mail]>]

At the last IETF meeting we discussed the idea of creating a stronger relationship between this group and the OpenAPI Initiative participants who are API practitioners.  At present the participation in this working group is limited to a fairly small group of people and it would be good to reach a larger audience for feedback and hopefully to spread the workload around.  Also, the OpenAPI community are always looking for experienced people to provide feedback on their specifications.  https://spec.openapis.org/

The OpenAPI Initiative community is largely active on a Slack community that you can join here Join open-api on Slack - Community Inviter<https://communityinviter.com/apps/open-api/openapi> and there is now a channel #ieft-httpapi to focus the conversations on interactions between the two organizations.  I have encouraged the participants there to get involved on the IETF HTTPAPI GitHub org and it would help drive engagement if folks from this group could drop into the Slack and say hello.

If this experiment proves effective, we can investigate creating a formal liaison relationship between the two organizations.

Thanks,
Darrel