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The Technical Working Group (WG) oversees development and maintenance of specifications, software, and servers that support infrastructure for the ARKs-in-the-Open (AITOARK Alliance (ARKA) community. Examples include ARK standardization, code for counting ARKs, and global resolver replication.
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Kickoff: clarify objectives and assign roles for (a) standardization and (b) NAAN procedures designers; spec authors articulate areas they think are problematic
Months 1-9: several rounds of review, feedback, and revision for (a) and (b), including public review via the arks-forum list; NAAN procedures are piloted
Months 13-15: recruit NAAN registry workers
- Months 16-20: feedback and review of '?info' inflection for returning human- and machine-readable metadata; ARK spec submitted to IETF
- Months 18-19: establish NAAN request-to-entry online tool at N2T; further refinements to procedures
- Months 20-24: deal with spec feedback from the IETF
Months 24-26: “counting ARKs” project design and prototyping then begins
- Months 26-27: counting ARKs prototype is tested
Month 28: updated WG objectives and deliverables for the coming year, with an accordingly updated overall AITO ARKA roadmap
Resources
2008 ARK spec: http://n2t.net/e/arkspec.txt
- 2020 ARK spec: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-kunze-ark-2427
Current NAAN registry: https://n2t.net/e/pub/naan_registry.txt
Global ARK (and other identifiers) resolver, N2T (Name-to-Thing): https://n2t.net
Notes from ARK "Experts" meetings in 2018, with discussions of surveys, ARK spec changes, counting ARKs, sustainability, etc
General WG features common across AITO across ARKA working groups
Persistence Statements: Describing Digital Stickiness: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-039
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Teleconferences are generally held once a month, 1709:00-18:00 UTC10:00 California time, on the third Mondaysecond Tuesday. Connection details included in calendar invitations.
Communication Channels
aitoarka-technical-wg@googlegroups.com, archived at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aitoarka-technical-wg
Agendas and Notes
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