The Lookup-Server is a server component that can be run independently from an Nextcloud Server. This Lookup-Server can be used by Nextcloud to find remote users that can be used for federated sharing. This is useful for autocompletion in the sharing dialog to get the federation ID. Users can optionally decide to publish their sharing ID to be found by others. Think about it as a kind of public sharing telephone book.
Please look into the doc directory for more information.
This code is licensed as AGPL v3.
If you want to contribute please open a pull request here on github. Every improvement is welcome.
Frank Karlitschek frank@nextcloud.com