The WEID Consortium is a group of IT-workers and companies leaded by Frdlweb and ViaThinkSoft who work on network and internet protocols, specially identifiers, look-ups and registries.
Responsible owner: Till Wehowski (Webfan Homepagesystem) Technical management: Daniel Marschall (ViaThinkSoft)
We currently work on:
- WEID is a specification to write OID identifiers in a different notation. Its status is stable and it is ready to use.
- RDAP is a protocol to look-up registration data for domains, IPs, networks or other objects like e.g. OID or WEID. We try to implement OID and WEID and other look-ups as part of RDAP. Its status is BETA, you can use it but it will be improved or changed.
- OID-IP is a protocol developed by ViaThinkSoft. It can be used to query OID registries similar to DNS Nameservers.
- OIDplus is a system to manage objects in a registry. It is developed and maintained by Daniel Marschall (ViaThinkSoft).
We further plan to develop, or we plan to work with:
- ORS is a protocol to write an OID as a hostname and look its DNS up in DNS nameservers autoritativ for OID.
- Frdlweb wants to define a .well-known and defined set of apps,successors/protocols/tools in something like WEID+ to implement implementations like Frdlweb code or OIDplus, for example to create federations of registries like OIDplus systems.
- A nameserver system and protocol with (root-)registries similar to the domain name system connecting OIDs to physical hosts/services.
- A well defined set of registration policies to register and hand-out subordinates and/or identifiers like IPs, domains, services related and connected to OID registries.
- Defining a bootstrap of trusted default roots and OID trees where you can register well-known OIDs like IANA PEN, FreeOID by Viathinksoft and registered and connected sub-registries like e.g. OIDplus instances.
Wehowski and Marschall will enable and administer the commercial market to sub-delegate and resell roots, trees and subzones and connect internet services like webhosting or emails to it and to other services following our protocols. They may provide a biz/shop to (re-)sell webhosting, domains, services, servers and other products.
Working on software implementing the WEID protocols, like e.g. OIDplus.