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I've been long wondering how to assign a task to a colleague or friend, tried several apps, but nothing ever worked. And if it worked, my friend was using a different app than me.

Enter a distributed system. My aim is to use standard internet technology like e-mail and dns to assign tasks and create a distributed system around it.

The server

• Holds your taks
• Knows it's users

Task object

JSON object with the following fields

• Guid (domain.com@25892e17-80f6-415f-9c65-7395632f0223)
• Owner (e-mail address)
• Assignee(s) (multiple e-mail addresses)
• Listener(s) (multiple e-mail addresses)
• Title
• Notes
• Files (multiple url's to assets)
• Due date
• Comments (multiple task-comment objects)

Assigning a task

• In your task app (of choice) you assign a task to one (of more) e-mailadresses
• The app checks the domain dns of chosen e-mail address (let's say chris@opentaskstandard.org)
• Its find a txt record with the v=ots txt in it, in there we will find the domain of the dtm server
• The app connects with the API on that domain and sends the task to the api end point
• if the dns resolving fails, a link to the task object is send via e-mail

API

• Create a task
• Update a task
• Get task details
• Send task acknowledgement
• Send task denial (user does not accepts tests)