Changelog

[1.2.0] - 2024-11-20 - Michiel B. de Jong michiel@pondersource.com

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.

[1.0.0] - 2020-07-01 - Bjoern Schiessle bjoern@schiessle.org

First official release of the Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) protocol specification, to enable federated sharing and notifications. The supported endpoints are /shares and /notifications.