UCP publishes the first draft of its Lodging Booking capability
- Lodging draft, PR #780
UCP publishes the first draft of its Lodging Booking capability
The Universal Commerce Protocol project merged and announced the first draft of a Lodging Booking capability, which it calls the formal expansion of UCP into the Lodging domain. The capability, dev.ucp.lodging.booking, landed through pull request #780 together with a cancellation policy extension and is marked as draft status.
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