[rfc-dist] RFC 9309 on Robots Exclusion Protocol

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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

        
        RFC 9309

        Title:      Robots Exclusion Protocol 
        Author:     M. Koster,
                    G. Illyes,
                    H. Zeller,
                    L. Sassman
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       September 2022
        Mailbox:    m.koster@greenhills.co.uk,
                    garyillyes@google.com,
                    henner@google.com,
                    lizzi@google.com
        Pages:      12
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-koster-rep-12.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9309

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9309

This document specifies and extends the "Robots Exclusion Protocol"
method originally defined by Martijn Koster in 1994 for service
owners to control how content served by their services may be
accessed, if at all, by automatic clients known as crawlers.
Specifically, it adds definition language for the protocol,
instructions for handling errors, and instructions for caching.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet Standards Track
protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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