

We are excited this month to witness the 900th organization to register to use ARKs, and to welcome Romuald Verrier, from the French Ministry of Education, as the newest member of the NAAN curator team.
We are also delighted to announce that the IETF‘s Independent Submissions Stream RFC Editor (ISE) has accepted to work on the ARK specification with a view to publishing it as an Informational RFC. The ISE’s next task is to review the work and then commission some independent reviews. The process from there to a published RFC could be between 3 and 6 months.
Here is an updated snapshot of the ARK community since the 2021 ARK Alliance year end wrap up.
- Organizations registered to assign ARKs: 907 (+30)
- Known number of ARKs in the world: 8.2 billion
- Amount paid for the right to create ARKs: $0
- Average resolutions per day by N2T.net in 2022: 153,749 (+1,399)
Here is a list of the 30 institutions that registered to assign ARKs since 2021-12-16, in the order that they arrived.
Musée Municipal Ducastel-Vera
OpenJustice.be
International Research Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Eerdelogie
Musée d’histoire de Nantes – Château des ducs de Bretagne
Par Cours & Par Thèmes
Programme pédagogique numérique J’apprends l’Energie
Interdisciplinary Center for History, Culture and Societies
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Saooti
Lilote
Editora Moan
Archives Communales de Versailles
California Academy of Sciences
Journal of oasis agriculture and sustainable development
Journal of automation and control problems
Hit Save!
Centro de Información y Gestión Tecnológica Guantánamo
Revista Hombre, Ciencia y Tecnología
Beneylu
Vert
EFELE
Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau
Archives départementales des Hauts de seine
Archief voor nationale bewegingen
Historial de la Vendée
Journal of Society and Policy
Photo Elysée – Musée cantonal pour la photographie
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Musée cantonal de Design et d’Arts Appliqués Contemporains