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       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.                    

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