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Mediator service is like a drop box / post box that Aries agents can use to receive and store encrypted messages in their stead.

Basic flow:  -

• people can send you messages at the mediator address if you are not always available to receive messages

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• you can pick them up later from mediator service using pick up protocol

Mediator/ Agency are useful for scenarios like mobile phone agents which can't always receive messages. Due to reasons including:  -

• network interruption

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• sleep /power off

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• power conservation optimizations
  

There exist a agency/mediator service for Aries, but it has limitations:

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•   Pull pickup struct definitions / traits from vcx and integrate with local impl
•  see if additional local interfaces need to be defined for http / mediation (like accounts etc)
•  Tests.

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Milestones

Eval1:
- setup development environment
- rust learning (learn and gain good pedagogical familiarity with concepts used: structs, impls, macros, etc)
- basic web service skeleton ready
- CI for making sure builds succeed

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Mentee

Processes

Internal communication and updates:

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