I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-conneg-feature-sets-at-urls-00.txt
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Content Negotiation Working Group of the IETF. Title : Syntax extensions for abbreviating media feature sets with URLs Author(s) : W. Newman Filename : draft-ietf-conneg-feature-sets-at-urls-00.txt Pages : 7 Date : 01-Mar-99 Other Internet Drafts from the CONNEG working group describe a syntax[SYNTAX] and vocabulary[FEATURES] for negotiating media feature sets which can be used for transmission of a message. For example, a feature set may specify that full color output up to 800x600 pixels is supported, or that output can have up to 300 dots per inch. These feature sets can be arbitrarily complex, and typical feature set expressions may be hundreds of bytes in length. It would be relatively costly to transmit such long feature set expressions, and this cost could be a significant obstacle to the use of the CONNEG standard to negotiate capabilities for Internet transactions. The problem is likely to particularly severe for low-bandwidth wireless connections to the Internet. This document describes an extension to the CONNEG syntax[SYNTAX] which allows a feature set expression to be represented as an absolute URL, which can then be looked up over another channel, which is not necessarily the channel between the negotiating parties. By using this extension, content negotiation between two parties can proceed with a relatively small exchange of data over the channel between them. Of course, the contents of the URL must still be found through some channel. However, the channel used to find the contents of the URL may have greater bandwidth than the channel between the negotiating parties, and may further benefit from HTTP or other caching mechanisms. This extended syntax is only applicable when the receiver of the feature set has the capability to fetch the contents of absolute URLs. In contrast, the base, unextended syntax[SYNTAX] is applicable to any transmission channel, without requiring any external resources for the feature set transmitter or the feature set receiver. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-conneg-feature-sets-at-urls-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-conneg-feature-sets-at-urls-00.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-conneg-feature-sets-at-urls-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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