5C Normative availability and distribution of stage 3 specification files

In this option, the normative code parts of the stage 3 specification shall be normatively stored in the 3GPP Forge repository.

The TS document specifying the stage 3 definition shall indicate that the 3GPP Forge repository is normative for the corresponding stage 3 specification files and:

• The TS document shall contain a link to a 3GPP Forge repository tag that implicitly includes the versioning information about the TS, e.g. https://forge.3gpp.org/rep/sa5/MnS/-/tree/Tag_Rel18_SA100;
• The TS document shall contain the directory path where the files are stored, e.g. "yang-models";
• The TS document shall contain the name of the files specified by this TS;
• The TS document shall not contain a copy of the stage 3 specification files.

Before making available any new version of a TS specifying stage 3 files, the responsible MCC officer shall download the specification files from 3GPP Forge and store them in the zip file containing the new version of the TS document. This zip file shall be published in the usual places.

All OpenAPI stage 3 specification files referenced by the TS document shall also be stored by the MCC officer in the following location:

• https://forge.3gpp.org/rep/all/5G_APIs.