[httpapi] RFC 9727 on api-catalog: A Well-Known URI and Link Relation to Help Discovery of APIs

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        RFC 9727

        Title:      api-catalog: A Well-Known URI and 
                    Link Relation to Help Discovery of APIs 
        Author:     K. Smith
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       June 2025
        Mailbox:    kevin.smith@vodafone.com
        Pages:      17
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-httpapi-api-catalog-08.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9727

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9727

This document defines the "api-catalog" well-known URI and link
relation. It is intended to facilitate automated discovery and usage
of published Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). A request to
the api-catalog resource will return a document providing information
about, and links to, the Publisher's APIs.

This document is a product of the Building Blocks for HTTP APIs Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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