I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-urn-http-conv-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 Uniform Resource Names Working Group of the IETF. Title : Conventions for the Use of HTTP for URN Resolution Author(s) : R. Daniel Filename : draft-ietf-urn-http-conv-00.txt Pages : 6 Date : 11/21/1996 The URN-WG was formed to specify persistent, location-independent names for network accessible resources, and resolution mechanisms to retrive the resources given such a name. At this time the URN-WG is considering one particular resolution mechanism, the NAPTR proposal [1]. That proposal does not get the client software all the way from the URN to the resource. Instead, it gets the client from a URN to a "resolver", which is a system that can then tell the client where the resource is. The NAPTR draft defines a "resolution protocol" to be the protocol used to speak to a resolver in order to obtain the resource, its location(s), or other information about the resource. The NAPTR proposal allows different resolution protocols to be used for commuicating with resolvers. This draft establishes conventions for encoding URN resolution requests and responses in HTTP 1.0 (and 1.1) requests and responses. The primary goal of this draft is to define a convention that is simple to implement and will allow existing HTTP servers to easily add support for URNresolution. We expect that the resolution databases that arise will be useful when more sophisticated resolution protocols are developed later. Internet-Drafts are 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-urn-http-conv-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-urn-http-conv-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa: ftp.is.co.za o Europe: nic.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it o Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au o US East Coast: ds.internic.net o US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-urn-http-conv-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net 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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