2026 02 25 Technical WG Agenda and Notes

Attendees

• Karen Hanson, Donny Winston, Curtis Mirci, Dave Vieglais, John Kunze

Goals

• Resolver replica planning

Discussion items

Item	Owner
Announcements? Any news items we should blog about? Any calls for papers, submission deadlines, upcoming meetings we should note? See Calendar of Events (ARKA-Calendar).	all

• jk: proposing Julien Raemy, former Outreach co-chair, as new member
• kh, dw: second
• ACTION: add Julien to ggroup and calendar invite
• jk: i'd like to call out contributions from the community, maybe with a blog post as well
• dw: don't think it's a good idea to focus too much on individuals because it can detract from the community feeling

Item	Owner
finishing review and update Technical WG goals and deliverables

• editable googledoc version
• all: final edits approved
• ACTiON: update community pagte

Item	Owner
followup on Zulip

• kh: don't know how widespread it is? is there a way to participate without signing up for a new messaging app?
• dw: can designate public channels that are read-only without signing in; so you can create an account later to participate; you can do email only, read and reply only via email
• jk: similar to google groups?
• dw: yes
• kh: that makes sense to me; being able to see is a good start, and we can create informative links to content from the website
• dw: don't know what terminology to use, maybe have a globe icon; recommend checking in in six months
• jk: I don't care for Slack or Discord; is Zulip slow for anyone else?
• dv: haven't had issues with zulip; suggest diving in and opening up to public sooner than later; goal is to streamline communication
• dw: fine to be bold and say we're trying it out

Item	Owner
replica planning

• part of general strategy for making ARK infrastructure less dependent on US-based orgs -- replica, NAAN processing
• dw: walk through my proof-of-concept; when you run it
• dv: big thing missing is registry target template containing various properties; the other issue will be having to deal with URL-encoded ids, which is sometimes not helpful; try https://github.com/CDLUC3/resolver as pluggable app, relies on sqlite; no coding needed
• dv: challenge will not be technical, but higher level issues are DNS level naan processing; just needs secret mgmt
• dv: I'm dealing now with big imagery files; tangentially dealing with ARKs; philosophy of identifying everything, so I'm trying to tie in ARKs and suffix passthrough with tiled geospatial datasets

Zoom chat

Old action items

• convert ARK URI registration to modern ARKs