RFC 3861 on Address Resolution for Instant Messaging and Presence

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        RFC 3861

        Title:      Address Resolution for Instant Messaging and
                    Presence
        Author(s):  J. Peterson
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       August 2004
        Mailbox:    jon.peterson@neustar.biz
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 15764
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-impp-srv-04.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3861.txt

Presence and instant messaging are defined in RFC 2778.  The Common
Profiles for Presence and Instant Messaging define two Universal
Resource Identifier (URI) schemes: \'im' for INSTANT INBOXes and
'pres' for PRESENTITIES.  This document provides guidance for locating
the resources associated with URIs that employ these schemes.

This document is a product of the Instant Messaging and Presence
Protocol Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
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