[Openid-specs-fapi] Issue #570: Deprecation & removal of FAPI 1 Implementer's Draft conformance certification tests/programme (openid/fapi)

[josephheenan]

New issue 570: Deprecation & removal of FAPI 1 Implementer's Draft conformance certification tests/programme
https://bitbucket.org/openid/fapi/issues/570/deprecation-removal-of-fapi-1-implementers

Joseph Heenan:

With FAPI 1 Advanced going to final in March 2021, the question arises of what we do with the conformance tests and certification program for implementer’s draft 2.

It is not desirable to offer certifications for implementer’s draft 2 indefinitely, because the imposes a burden on both the certification team to continue to maintain the code and offer support, and on vendors who often feel obligated to certify new versions for all available profiles.

To the best of my knowledge, OpenBanking in the UK was the only ecosystem that really made use of the implementer’s draft, though I think CDR in Australia may also have done.

I would propose that we look at removing these tests and closing the certification program for these in around 12 months time, and that we mark them as ‘deprecated’ or a similar phrase in the meantime. It may also make sense to stop publishing the existing certifications sometime after the removal, or at least perhaps to move them away from the main certification page?

Feedback from the working group would be welcome. If the working group is okay with this proposal then the certification team can share it with OBIE in the UK and ACCC in Australia so that any organisations that don’t already have a plan to move to ‘final’ can do so \(and would take any final feedback on the timescales from these organisations\).

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