Changelog
- Rephrased and improved the whole protocol description text
in order to conform to the IETF Internet Draft style.
- Updated the API specification to OpenAPI 3.0.
- Added a
/.well-known endpoint for discovery, to replace
the legacy /ocm-provider endpoint in a future release, and
extended the properties and capabilities each implementation
can expose.
- Introduced a concept of
requirements in new shares, which indicate
that a recipient of a share MUST fulfill some capabilities in order
to access the share.
- Introduced several mechanisms to improve security:
- Support for Multi-Factor Authentication.
- Support for signing requests.
- Support for OAuth-style exchanges, via a new
/token endpoint.
- Clarified access methods to remote shares, and deprecated
less secure ones.
- Extended the
/notifications endpoint.
[1.1.0] - 2023-05-15 - Giuseppe Lo Presti lopresti@cern.ch
- Added a new
/invite-accepted endpoint to support an invitation
workflow in the context of the ScienceMesh.
- Officially added the
/ocm-provider discovery endpoint, already
in use by several implementations. Within this endpoint, clarified
which are the minimal capabilities required to be “OCM compliant”.
- Added support for multi-protocol shares, and fully specified
the properties required for each supported protocol.
- Added a
federation recipient share type.
- Deprecated
protocol.options in /shares.
- First official release of the Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) protocol
specification, to enable federated sharing and notifications.
The supported endpoints are
/shares and /notifications.