RFC 2169 has been reclassified as Historic.
RFC 2169
Title: A Trivial Convention for using
HTTP in URN Resolution
Author: R. Daniel
Status: Historic
Stream: IETF
Date: June 1997
Pages: 9
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2169
DOI: 10.17487/RFC2169
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 resolution
protocols are developed later.
This document is a product of the Uniform Resource Names Working Group of the
IETF.
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