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This document specifies a web service interface based on JSON [1] and XML [2] for transporting over the Internet or an extranet network a set of ontological data conformant to IEC 62656-1. This web service allows an exchange of data parcel(s) between a parcel server and a parcel client or between parcel servers. The data parcel(s) used therein comprises one of the parcel ontology layers, i.e., Axiomatic Ontology layer (AO), Meta-ontology layer (MO), Domain Ontology layer (DO) or Domain Library layer (DL), the detail of which is defined in IEC 62656-1. This interface comprises three basic services, registration service, resolution service and subscription service. With respect to query, the query language for a data parcel will be a subject of another part of IEC 62656.