Directory

The Open Law Directory is the trust anchor of the ecosystem. It registers participants, hosts public signing keys, and issues signed Software Statement Assertions (SSAs) that TPPs present during Dynamic Client Registration.

Responsibilities

• Register organisations and software products
• Publish Directory and participant JWKS
• Issue SSA JWTs for registered software
• Support softwareAudience: client-facing and firm-facing

Key endpoints

| Endpoint | Purpose | | --- | --- | | POST/GET /participants | Register and list organisations | | GET /participants/{id} | Retrieve a participant | | POST/GET /participants/{id}/software | Register and list software | | GET /software/{id}/assertion | Obtain a signed SSA JWT | | GET /.well-known/jwks.json | Directory signing keys |

Reference implementation

A NestJS (Fastify) reference service with Prisma and Postgres is published at openlawuk/directory. Planned production host: directory.openlaw.org.uk.

Related

• Dynamic Client Registration
• Ecosystem
• OpenAPI: see the directory repository apis/directory-openapi.yaml