generated: '2026-09-12'
method: searched
source: >-
  ginniemae.gov site search, footer linkset, robots.txt, sitemap.xml and live
  response headers, 2026-09-12.
provider: Ginnie Mae
providerId: ginnie-mae
description: >-
  Lifecycle posture of Ginnie Mae's public API surface. Almost every field here is
  an honest negative: Ginnie Mae operates the API but does not run it as a product,
  so none of the product-lifecycle apparatus exists.
versioning:
  scheme: path
  current_version: v1
  base: https://www.ginniemae.gov/api/v1
  policy_published: false
  policy_url: null
  detail: >-
    The version lives in the path only. No supported-version list, no sunset
    schedule, no version negotiation header, and no statement of what a breaking
    change would be.
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  policy_url: null
  headers_observed: []
  rfc8594_sunset: false
  deprecated_operations: []
  detail: >-
    No Deprecation or Sunset response header was returned on any probed endpoint
    (2026-09-12), and no deprecation policy page exists. No operation in
    openapi/ginnie-mae-content-api-openapi.yml is marked deprecated, because nothing
    in the surface declares itself so.
status_page:
  published: false
  url: null
  evidence: >-
    status.ginniemae.gov does not resolve (DNS NXDOMAIN, 2026-09-12). No status,
    uptime or incident page is linked from the site footer linkset
    (https://www.ginniemae.gov/system/menu/footer/linkset, HTTP 200), which lists only
    Contact Us, FAQ, Glossary, Site Policies, Disclaimer, Accessibility, Government
    Acts & Directives, Privacy Policy and the Vulnerability Disclosure Policy.
  operational_notices:
    channel: disclosure-download notifications
    endpoint: https://www.ginniemae.gov/api/v1/bulk-notifications
    detail: >-
      The nearest thing to an operational feed. It is the notice banner for the
      Disclosure Data Download application and is machine-readable, but it covers the
      bulk data product, not the API. Returned an empty array on 2026-09-12.
sla:
  published: false
  url: null
  detail: No service level agreement, target or commitment is published for any Ginnie Mae API surface.
changelog:
  api_changelog_published: false
  url: null
  detail: >-
    No API changelog or release notes exist. Ginnie Mae does publish a dated,
    machine-readable corpus of PROGRAM change notices — All Participant Memoranda,
    MBS Program Memoranda and bulletins, at
    https://www.ginniemae.gov/api/v1/node/memorandum — but those announce changes to
    the securities program and its file layouts, not to this API, and it would be
    wrong to register them as a ChangeLog pointer. No changelog/ artifact is written
    for this provider for that reason.
support:
  channel: https://www.ginniemae.gov/contact-us
  detail: >-
    General agency contact only. There is no developer support channel, forum,
    community or issue tracker, and no GitHub organisation (github.com/ginniemae
    returns 404 and a GitHub user search for "ginniemae" returns zero accounts,
    checked 2026-09-12).
security_response:
  vulnerability_disclosure_policy: https://www.ginniemae.gov/site-policies/ginnie-mae-vulnerability-disclosure-policy
  acknowledgement_commitment: 3 business days
  detail: >-
    The one lifecycle commitment Ginnie Mae does publish. See
    security/ginnie-mae-vulnerability-disclosure.yml.