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Northstar

Northstar is a lookup service, which acts as a source of information for interfaces which hold particular forge information.

An Interface connects and looks through an instance of Northstar, to find the appropriate the forge information that it seeks.

An instance of Northstar has the functionality to act as an API to register and provide forge information. These routes/payloads are covered in the OpenAPI specification for Northstar.