generated: '2026-07-25'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/Spectrum%20licensing%20API.docx
versioning:
  scheme: document-version-only
  current: '1.0'
  published: '2016-06-17'
  detail: >-
    ACMA versions the DOCUMENT, not the transport. The published guide is headed "Version: 1.0,
    Published: 17/06/2016" but no version appears in the URL path, in a header, or in any
    response. There is no /v1/ segment and no version negotiation. The service has been running
    on the same endpoint path since at least 2016, which in practice makes it one of the most
    stable public API contracts in Australian government — but the stability is a fact about the
    deployment, not a published commitment.
  docs: https://www.acma.gov.au/radiocomms-licence-data
deprecation:
  policy_url: https://www.acma.gov.au/radiocomms-licence-data
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  detail: >-
    ACMA publishes no deprecation POLICY, no notice period and no RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation
    header support. What it does publish is deprecation FACTS: the API guide marks specific web
    methods "Deprecated" in place, in the same reference where they are otherwise documented.
    Those methods have since been removed from the live WSDL entirely, so the observable
    lifecycle is: documented, marked deprecated in the reference, then withdrawn from the
    contract without a dated sunset.
  method: in-reference-annotation
deprecated_operations:
- name: SpectrumLicenceImageSearchXML
  status: withdrawn
  documented_as: Deprecated
  evidence: >-
    Listed in the guide's contents and body with the single word "Deprecated" and no URI
    template; absent from the live WSDL at OuterService.svc?wsdl (checked 2026-07-25).
- name: SpectrumLicenceImageSearchJSON
  status: withdrawn
  documented_as: Deprecated
  evidence: Same as SpectrumLicenceImageSearchXML.
- name: ExtractSpectrumLicensingPDF
  status: withdrawn
  documented_as: Deprecated
  evidence: >-
    Listed in the guide's contents and body with the single word "Deprecated" and no URI
    template; absent from the live WSDL (checked 2026-07-25).
live_operations:
  count: 22
  wsdl_operations: 22
  note: >-
    The live WSDL and the reconstructed OpenAPI agree on 22 operations: eleven web methods each
    published as an XML and a JSON projection.
sla:
  published: false
  detail: >-
    No service level agreement, no uptime target and no support commitment is published for the
    Spectrum Licensing API. It is offered as a public convenience over a statutory register.
status_page:
  published: false
  detail: >-
    ACMA operates no status page for any of its API surfaces. There is no status.acma.gov.au and
    no incident history page; outages are not communicated programmatically.
data_refresh:
  cadence: daily
  detail: >-
    The bulk RRL download "contains a complete data set current for that day", so the register
    behind the API is refreshed on a daily cycle. There is no ETag, Last-Modified or
    change-feed contract exposing that cycle to API callers.
change_communication:
  changelog_published: false
  detail: >-
    No dated API changelog exists. The only change signal is the "Last updated" stamp on the
    radiocomms licence data page (27 May 2025 at the time of capture) and the version block on
    the guide itself.
related:
  documentation_page_last_updated: '2025-05-27'
  api_guide: https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/Spectrum%20licensing%20API.docx
  bulk_download: https://www.acma.gov.au/register-radiocommunication-licences-rrl#/data-download
  offline_tool: https://web.acma.gov.au/offline-rrl/
dncr:
  api: acma:do-not-call-register-washing
  fee_schedule_effective: '2021-10-01'
  fee_approval_date: '2021-09-27'
  detail: >-
    Do Not Call Register subscription fees were approved by the ACMA on 27 September 2021 and
    came into effect on 1 October 2021; the register's legislation page is the change-of-record
    for the commercial terms. Wash results remain valid for 30 days, and washed lists remain
    downloadable for 30 days — a documented data-freshness lifecycle that binds callers legally,
    not just technically.
  legislation: https://www.donotcall.gov.au/industry/industry-overview/register-legislation