Open APIs

I faced issues in posting this, hence retrying again.

Hi,

I've got query on positioning and need of 640 after reading of 640-Service Activation, 641-Service Order, 638 - Service Inventory management. Can the API community share the guidelines defined while defining APIs ? That'll help.

1. 641 has "Activate" as target state for Service which does provide option of Activation/Configuration. This is same functionality as of 640. So, Is 640 subset of 641 ? 
2. If answer to qn-1 is No ,  What are guidelines in selection of 641/640 ? i.e. In which scenarios should they use. I would like to present 2 scenarios of B2B world. Customer wants to add a new location for getting new products, Other is In-life change i.e. Customer wants to make changes to multiple RFSs to achieve a business outcome

Thanks in advance.

------------------------------
Bhanu Sirigiri
BT Group plc
------------------------------

It looks like your other post made it, see https://engage.tmforum.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=31&MessageKey=cca9b984-4c83-4de5-8bbf-fa6bc0804d0b&CommunityKey=d543b8ba-9d3a-4121-85ce-5b68e6c31ce5&tab=digestviewer&ReturnUrl=%2fbrowse%2fallrecentposts
Please respond there, not on this thread, which is duplicate.

------------------------------
Jonathan Goldberg
Amdocs Management Limited
Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
------------------------------