WEID Consortium

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 (Frdlweb/Webfan Homepagesystem)

Technical management: Daniel Marschall (ViaThinkSoft)

Organisation Entity: co@weid.info

WEID Community

Read the talk, ask questions, or apply to join the WEID Consortium and contribute or vote for changes. Contribute to several related projects, read the documentations get news in the WEID Frdlweb Group. You can contact the Org e.g. via our shared cloud account @weid@webfan.de.

WEID Chapters

We currently work on:

• WEID Notation 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 (see OID-Connect below…).
• 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).

WEID Notation

Read the specification of the WEID Notation, the first specification in place and complete which was developed by the WEID Consortium.

The Status of the following Chapters is Alpha, they are not ready but will be implemented soon probably…

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.

OID-Connect + OID Hosting

Successor of a set of our protocols for registration, provisioning, accreditation, binding, managing, connecting and extending the registration, delegation, signing and validation of OID allocations, its registrants, registrars and registries.

• OID Hosting
• OID-Connect Protocol Registry
• OID RDAP Bootstrap Registry

WEID Software

Working on software implementing the WEID protocols, like e.g. OIDplus. Successors of the WEID Software Chapter will be (soon):

• Source code registries and development packages collections
• Applications registries and app setup/installer marketplaces
• Code less interoperational protocols and interfaces registry, significantly referred to as OIDminus
• OIDplus Extensions “WEIDplus”

WEID RA and WEID Business

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.