API endpoint for fetching signed content

[benhylau]

🎟️ Re-ticketed from: #
📅 Due date: Jan 13, 2021
🎯 Success criteria: Serve an API endpoint for fetching JSON plain text versions of our content with appropriate signaturing metadata.

Task Summary

Develop API that returns JSON containers of plain text content (e.g. markdown, html) suitable for rendering in clients such as SSB and Aether. There must be a way to verify the bundle, which can be achieved by including a signature in the JSON bundle.

The exported bundles can also contain direct monetization information, which clients can choose to support / render.

To Do

• [ ] Design schema and signaturing scheme
• [ ] Publish schema and sample content
• [ ] Design and develop API
• [ ] Sign JSON content as part of CI (requires #18)
• [ ] Serve API from an api endpoint on compost.digital domain

[benhylau]

Some relevant links for signed exchange and content registry standards:

Signed Exchanges

• https://web.dev/signed-exchanges/
• https://web.dev/web-bundles/

ISCN

• https://iscn.io/#linked-data
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/likecoin/

An idea around monetising “distributed” content (Hyperaudio)

• https://community.webmonetization.org/maboa/an-idea-around-monetising-distributed-content-6gf