Maritime Connectivity Platform (MCP) documentation

This documentation describes Maritime Connectivity Platform from the overall architecture to the technical details of the MCP reference implementation.

Intended audiences are mostly people having technical backgrounds, for example:

• MCP instance provider developers
• MCP service providers
• MCP service consumers
• MCP source code contributors

To build solid understanding of MCP you are expected to read the documents from the list below:

• MCP official webpage
• MCP concept document
• Identity Management and Security: General Approach and Basic Requirements
• Identity Management and Security: Identity Management (the MCP usage of Maritime Resource Names, MRN)
• Identity Management and Security: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Identity Management and Security: Authentication and Authorisation for Web Services
• IALA’s G1128 e-Navigation technical service specification guideline

Please refer our Discourse forum for general usage questions and new releases.

Table of content

• Basic Concept
• Maritime Identity Registry (MIR)
• Maritime Service Registry (MSR)
• Maritime Messaging Service (MMS)
• MCP namespace
• MCP Instance Provider
• Using MCP instance
• Setting up MCP
• Source code
• Terminology
• Reference

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page