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       Title     : A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution   
       Author(s) : R. Daniel
       Filename  : draft-ietf-urn-http-conv-01.txt
       Pages     : 6
       Date      : 02/19/1997

The Uniform Resource Names Working Group (URN-WG) was formed to specify 
persistent, location-independent names for network accessible resources, as
well as resolution mechanisms to retrieve the resources given such a name. 
At this time the URN-WG is considering one particular resolution mechanism,
the NAPTR proposal [1]. That proposal specifies how a client may find a 
"resolver" for a URN. A resolver is a database that can provide information
about the resource identified by a URN, such as the resource's location, a 
bibliographic description, or even the resource itself. The protocol used 
for the client to communicate with the resolver is not specified in the 
NAPTR proposal. Instead, the NAPTR resource record provides a field that 
indicates the "resolution protocol" and "resolution service requests" 
offered by the resolver.  

This document specifies the "THTTP" resolution protocol - a trivial 
convention for encoding resolution service requests and responses as 
HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 requests and responses.  The primary goal of THTTP 
is to be simple to implement so that existing HTTP servers may easily 
add support for URN resolution. We expect that the databases used by
early resolvers will be useful when more sophisticated esolution protocols
are developed later.                    

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