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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

• Outreach WG and Sustainability WG

• 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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