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Digital Product Passport - Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the product passport lifecycle management and searchability

Scope

The scope of this pwi follows the requirements of module 8 in the standardisation request of the european commission.

In Scope:
- Definition of APIs for automating the management of the product passport throughout its lifecycle
- Rules on data providing and data request processes
CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on products passports - also covering part of module 5
- remote queries on the products passports under their custodianship.
- syntax and semantics of the API interfaces;
- security and access control to the APIs;
- requirements on performance and response time;
- considerations on versioning and backward compatibility of API interfaces;
- message exchange patterns, for instance synchronous, asynchronous, request-response, fire-and-forget, publish and subscribe (concerning work of Module 5)
- availability and scalability;
- mechanisms to ensure the functional reliability of the data (in collaboration with module 7)

Out of Scope:
- European standard(s) on unique identifiers
- European standard(s) on data carriers and links between physical product and digital representation
- European standard(s) on access rights management, information, system security, and business confidentiality
- European standard(s) on interoperability (technical, semantic, organisation)
- European standard(s) on data exchange protocols and data formats
- European standard(s) on data storage, archiving, and data persistence
- European standard(s) on data authentication, reliability, integrity