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Global Signalling Service

Open-standard signalling protocol for internet-scale applications. GSS evolves DNS with push updates, structured records, and lightweight functions for configuration, targeting, and discovery.

Product
GSS
Type
Network Protocol
License
MIT
Scope
Internet / DNS
CAPABILITIESDOC-GSS-001

Structured records

CAP-001

GSS records carry strongly-typed and structured data for applications to consume directly, like routing rules, service descriptors, and configuration.

Records
DNS-native + structured
Encoding
Binary, schema-aware
Compatibility
Full DNS bridge

Push updates and client-side functions

CAP-002

Publishers push changes in real time. Built-in functions handle cohort targeting, rollouts, load balancing, and routing redundancy on the client.

Updates
Server push, sub-second
Functions
Targeting, rollouts, LB
Evaluation
Client-side, deterministic

One protocol, many uses

CAP-003

Name resolution, service discovery, feature flags, and proxy configs share one wire format and one delivery path. Applications integrate against the GSS client library to consume any of them.

Coverage
Names, configs, flags, routes
Transport
QUIC, TCP fallback
Integrity
End-to-end signed
PROTOCOL OVERVIEWDOC-GSS-002

The next step after DNS.

GSS uses the DNS namespace, the resolution model, and the existing delegation hierarchy. Every DNS query has a representation in GSS, and zone administration continues to work the way operators already run it.

GSS adds push updates from publisher to subscriber, typed structured records, and client-side functions for cohort targeting and rollouts. Every record is signed and verifiable end-to-end.

resolve.gss
$ gss resolve api.acme.com A
── signed by acme.com publisher key
answer:
A 198.51.100.10 ttl=300
proof:
root sha256:7f3a…
chain 2 nodes · 3 hashes
verified
USE CASESDOC-GSS-003
UC-001

Application configuration

Distribute feature flags, proxy rules, and runtime policies over the same protocol that resolves your names.

UC-002

Targeted rollouts

Run canaries, cohort experiments, and regional rollouts with deterministic client-side assignment.

UC-003

Modern service discovery

Publish service endpoints with weights, locality, protocol metadata, and routing redundancy as structured data.

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