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IETF Standards

Members of the ANSA ISF Group have been active on the IETF Working Groups and mailing lists for discussion of Uniform Resource Identifiers. Mark Madsen has written an Internet-Draft, of which a version is available as HTML here, evaluating proposed standards for assignation and resolution of URNs (Uniform Resource Names). Note that this material has become out of date, with most of the proposed schemes decaying and no working group currently active in this area. It is hoped this situation will change.

The group is also involved in the effort to charter a new IETF WG on URCs (Uniform Resource Characteristics), which are the objects that encode metadata about the other resources and objects in the WWW. The draft of this charter is available under the URC pages (dead hyperlink - http://www.acl.lanl.gov/URC/) at Los Alamos National Labs.

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