CAMARA

CAMARA is the Telco Global API Alliance, an open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation that defines the mobile network’s capabilities as OpenAPI specifications. It turns things only a carrier can know — whether a SIM was recently swapped, whether a phone number really belongs to the device calling you, where a device is, what quality of service it can be granted — into standard, documented HTTP contracts. It is the most significant industry-built API standard of the last decade, and it exists without any regulatory mandate behind it.