diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index d1467fbacd6642388d51c82bfd3ac6b40a631fe8..e0669e010e436e6fbc873a3105bf924a9391b642 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -4992,6 +4992,7 @@ SAS/ResourceAssignment/QPIDInfrastructure/test/test_qpid_database.sh -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/bin/CMakeLists.txt -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/bin/rataskspecifiedservice -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/bin/rataskspecifiedservice.ini -text
+SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/lib/config.py -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/test/tRATaskSpecified.in_correlator -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/test/tRATaskSpecified.in_preprocessing -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/test/tRATaskSpecified.sh eol=lf
diff --git a/SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/lib/config.py b/SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/lib/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5c2f48dc010af2e4cc0c23ff93b8b7b03932b92
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+++ b/SAS/ResourceAssignment/RATaskSpecifiedService/lib/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# $Id$
+
+DEFAULT_RA_TASK_SPECIFIED_NOTIFICATION_BUSNAME='lofar.ra.notification'
+DEFAULT_RA_TASK_SPECIFIED_NOTIFICATION_SUBJECT='RA.TaskSpecified'