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README.md

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 All participants of IDS-based data ecosystems must be able to communicate with each other. Even though different participants may have different implementations of IDS-Connectors, they all need to send and receive IDS-Messages. This commonality is addressed by the IDS-Messaging-Services, which provide a lightweight implementation for IDS-Message-Handling. The IDS-Messaging-Services offer open-source functionality for sending IDS-Messages as well as interfaces for processing received IDS-Messages. The architecture relies on a modern modular architecture-approach so that the functionalities needed for communication in a data ecosystems can be easily selected specific to the infrastructure components present in the data ecosystems. In addition, advanced functionalities are implemented, such as checking the validity of the Dynamic-Attribute-Token of incoming messages.
 
+## Overview: Maintainer
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+**This project is currently no longer maintained but looking for new maintainers.**
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+Applications for maintainers shall be directed to the [International Data Spaces Association](mailto:[email protected]).
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+This project was previously maintained by Fraunhofer ISST and after that by sovity GmbH.
+Please do not approach former maintainers. If you have questions, plase open an issue / discussion for the community or approach the [International Data Spaces Association](mailto:[email protected]).
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 ## Overview: Versioning
 
 The IDS-Messaging-Service follows the SemanticVersioning system.