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</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Dear DDI users,</span><br style="overflow:visible;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">
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<span style="margin:0px;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none">The DDI Technical Committee plans to start work
this summer on a</span> web-based agency id resolution and service discovery
system. The DDI Alliance currently runs a DNS service record-based
resolution system. This new web-based effort will complement the
existing system and give DDI users a new http-based resolution option
which may be more familiar to work with and will be usable from
environments where DNS SRV record resolving is unavailable, such as JavaScript
running within a browser.<br style="overflow:visible;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">
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<span style="margin:0px;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none">The TC envisions creating one or two new methods
for agency id and</span> service resolution.<br style="overflow:visible;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">
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<span style="margin:0px;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none">1. A ReST based API or json document which would
be added to the</span> existing DDI registry.<br style="overflow:visible;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">
<br style="overflow:visible;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">
<span style="margin:0px;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none">2. An RFC 3986 based well-known URI which would describe
agency and</span><br style="overflow:visible;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">
<span style="margin:0px;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none">service information on each organizations own
website using the</span> /.well-known/ namespace.<br style="overflow:visible;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">
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<span style="margin:0px;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none">Please let us know if you are interested in
contributing to this new effort.</span> Respond to the list or to any member of
the Technical Committee.<br>
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<span style="margin:0px;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none">Thanks,</span><br style="overflow:visible;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">
<span style="margin:0px;word-spacing:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none">DDI Technical Committee</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px">
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><font face="Calibri"></font><font size="3"></font><font color="#000000"></font><font face="Times New Roman"></font><br clear="all"></p><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div>Wendy L. Thomas Phone: +1 612.624.4389</div><div>Data Access Core Director Fax: +1 612.626.8375</div><div>Minnesota Population Center Email: <a href="mailto:wlt@umn.edu" target="_blank">wlt@umn.edu</a></div><div>University of Minnesota</div><div>50 Willey Hall</div><div>225 19th Avenue South</div><div>Minneapolis, MN 55455</div></div></div></div></div>