The MCP
The MCP is a decentralised platform that facilitates secure and reliable information exchange within the maritime domain and beyond. "Beyond", because the maritime world isn’t isolated, but needs to exchange information with other domains - for instance with other transport domains. The information exchanged can be of almost any nature, ranging from private confidential information between a vessel and the shore office of the shipowner, to public information provided by authorities, such as the provision of navigational warnings.
As a decentralised platform, there is no single entity operating this. Several organisations are MCP service providers, and collectively they form “the Maritime Connectivity Platform”.
Maritime Identity Registry
For secure and reliable identity information the MIR provides a unified means of authentication using identity information provided by trusted stakeholders.
Maritime Service Registry
The MSR can be used for registering, discovering and using all relevant e-Navigation and e-Maritime services, commercial and non-commercial, authorised and non-authorised, for free and against payment. It can be seen as a sophisticated yellow pages phone book.
Maritime Messaging Service
An information broker that intelligently exchanges information between different communication systems, taking into account the current geographical position and communication links available to the recipient.
All the core components of the MCP are Open Source and available in our GitHub repositories. The source code for the MSR and MMS are still - work in progress, but the MIR is an up-to-date reference implementation aligned with the criteria for being an MCP identity service provider.
