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        RFC 2276:

        Title:      Architectural Principles of Uniform Resource Name 
		    Resolution
	Author(s):  K. Sollins
        Status:     Informational
	Date:       January 1998
        Mailbox:    sollins@lcs.mit.edu
	Pages:      24
        Characters: 64811
        Updates/Obsoletes:  None

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2276.txt


This document addresses the issues of the discovery of URN (Uniform
Resource Name) resolver services that in turn will directly translate
URNs into URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) and URCs (Uniform Resource
Characteristics).  The document falls into three major parts, the
assumptions underlying the work, the guidelines in order to be a
viable Resolver Discovery Service or RDS, and a framework for
designing RDSs.  The guidelines fall into three principle areas:
evolvability, usability, and security and privacy.  An RDS that is
compliant with the framework will not necessarily be compliant with
the guidelines.  Compliance with the guidelines will need to be
validated separately.

This document is a product of the Uniform Resource Names Working Group
of the IETF.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute