How to define Digital Registries and Registration in the GovStack Context.

How to define Digital Registries and Registration in the GovStack Context.
May 12, 2026

The GovStack Registries and Registration WG is tackling this exact topic, referring to best practice, global standards and country adoption experience, we are currently exploring how the interaction between these two essential components for Digital Government should work and how the functions should be described. This will result in an updated publication of the two Building Block specifications (Registries, Registration) and also bring them into line with the recent GovStack Architecture v2.1.0 publication.

To this end the members have written three purposely thought provoking articles to explore this topic further before updating the specification. We would really welcome any feedback and thoughts from the wider technical community so we are opening these articles up for public comment:

To submit comments and feedback please directly use comments ability in the documents.

If you would like to contribute to the work of the Registries and Registration Working Group you can find out more here. We welcome contributions and members of the working group whether new input or review of existing content from technical experts, implementers or adopters in the field and country feedback.