Glukhov – Glazunova (MDA) continue to reign in Standard
The undefeated couple over the past year, Alexey Glukhov – Anastasia Glazunova (MDA) conquers the 2024 WDSF European Championship Standard title in Chisinau, Moldova.
WDSF Extends Sponsorship Agreement with BD Dance for Third Consecutive Year
Beyond a conventional sponsorship, the partnership embodies a shared vision of nurturing the DanceSport community and providing dancers with optimal footwear for outstanding performances.
Celebrating Excellence: Unveiling the Definitive List of Athletes for the Olympic Qualifier Series
The World DanceSport Federation is honoured to unveil the definitive list of athletes who have successfully qualified and have been confirmed by their NMBs for the prestigious Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS).
Launch of WDSF Education Programme: Empowering National Member Bodies
Discover how the WDSF Education Programme empowers National Member Bodies with high-level educational resources, fostering growth and excellence in DanceSport. Learn more!
As even more functionality is getting added to the IDSF Registration and Licensing System (RLS), the need for co-ordination between all those working on or with it is increasing too.
IDSF Academy Director Petr Odstrcil, the originator of the RLS project, called for a working group to define and establish the standards that will allow the system to interact with scrutineering software, the Athletes' Media Files on this website, etc.
The first meeting of the working group took place in Vienna, AUT, on 1 March. IDSF Communication Commission Chair Heidi Goetz reports the outcome to be very positive, "but also hard to be put into words." As is illustrated in the brief quote (from a document) below!
"Following is pseudo-grammar that illustrates the construction of the authorization request header (\n means the Unicode code point U+000A commonly called newline) ... Signature = Base64( HMAC-SHA1( SecretKey, UTF-8-Encoding-Of( StringToSign ) ) );"
In any case, the results of the first meeting should soon translate into easy-to-be-used functions, apps, etc. That will be the moment we, the non-techies, should be able to inform you more.
