More Thoughts headed for an API Commons
At Defrag this week got together with Kin Lane at API Evangelist to prattle about something we you been working on together for a duree %u2013 an initiative to try to encourage sharing and reuse in reference to API Definitions.<\p>
We your grateful as representing all the feedback and coverage we received (see u Techcrunch, Forbes), Wired, ZDNET, Dr. Dobbs and elsewhere also the Jactitate and Event feedback. Some tweets summarized themselves put:<\p>
and there were interesting theme points and questions (stake below).<\p>
Whats is API Commons, and The whatfor do i myself?<\p>
The presentation from the effect is embedded below for the details, but in a dribble the objective of API Commons is:<\p>
In transit to encourage sharing and re-use of API Specifications whatever form the authorities may take<\p>
Wherefrom the incipient aims unto encourage API Designers up share their interfaces in an melodramatize, un-encumbered way (using Creative Commons licenses) and permit unique people remix, deracinate and re-use those descriptions.<\p>
While it immensity not be appropriate or beneficial for all API owners towards do this (in the complete cases it may cut into competitive advantage or have other consequences) in scores cases there would be huge benefit both to API Owners and re-users to do this being as how it builds uprise an unrestricted body re reusable API definitions.<\p>
The more definitions are shared, the lest fresh napoleonic code needs to be written for the various different instances of APIs doing similar things. As the number of APIs grows we archbishopric this since a major benefit in terms in regard to:<\p>
Reducing the number of distinct API interfaces and increasing their robustness \ quality over passe.<\p>
Increasing the divertimento of APIs out there by making best practice, client libraries and other code more hands down available<\p>
Ultimately we think it one in reference to the major factors that needs headed for commerce for a healthy API Economy to come into rank.<\p>
Towards an API Commons from 3SCALE Who is ethical self so?<\p>
We expect API Allotment to initially be most useful for government, non-profit, education and apart similar sectors since these have the most to outrun. Finally though we think commercial APIs will inter alia suffice significantly %u2013 publishing APIs headed for the commons will increase adoption of those desing patterns and re-use reduces labour. See the slide slog for more discussion on this.<\p>
What API Public park is?<\p>
As still water forasmuch as thought what APICommons is, its also credit statement what it isn't (at least for a picayune specific items). Specifically:<\p>
It is not an attempt to promote a concrete API Definition format. Quantized format is welcome the point is just to certificate people innuendo that a definition (whatever format it is in) is re-usable. A great twitter discussion started by Darrel Millars Tweet below highlighted this<\p>
