This repo is a reference implementation of the AVE standard, not the standard itself. Its governance is intentionally lighter than aveproject/ave's, which governs the standard's own succession, decision process, and trademark terms; see that repo's own GOVERNANCE.md for those.
Maintained by the AVE Project. Contact: aveproject.org@gmail.com.
Small, low-stakes changes (dependency bumps, documentation fixes, minor endpoint additions that don't change existing behavior) may be merged by the maintainer directly. Anything that changes an existing endpoint's response shape, removes an endpoint, or adds authentication should be raised as an issue for discussion before a PR is opened, since those are the kinds of changes that break something a second implementer may already depend on.
Nothing about the AVE standard requires this specific service to exist or
stay available. Anyone may run their own instance from this repo's source,
or write an entirely different one against aveproject/ave's raw record
data directly. If this instance ever becomes unmaintained, the standard
itself is unaffected; that separation is the point.