Require that consumers can export their data from an API in a portable, standard format without friction or penalty. The data flowing through an API belongs to the people and organizations it describes, and they should be able to take it elsewhere whenever they choose. Providing real portability is a statement of confidence, and paradoxically the providers most willing to let consumers leave are the ones consumers most want to stay with.
Data Portability Provided
Strategies
APIs Serve the Public Interest
APIs are increasingly the infrastructure of public and economic life, and that comes with responsibility. I believe API operations should weigh the interests of consumers, communities, and the publ...
APIs Support Data Portability and Ownership
The data flowing through an API belongs to the people and organizations it describes, not to whoever happens to be storing it. I believe APIs should make it genuinely possible for consumers to expo...
Experiences
Portability
Portability is the experience of being able to take your data, your integrations, and your business somewhere else if you need to. An API that supports data export, standard formats, and clear migr...
Privacy
Privacy is the experience of handling the personal data that flows through APIs responsibly. APIs move sensitive information constantly, and the people that data belongs to have a stake in how it i...
Lifecycle
travel_explore Discovery Production
Discovery is how APIs get found and reused instead of rebuilt. APIs.json, catalogs, and search make the APIs I operate visible to the people who need them. Good discovery is what turns a pile of AP...
