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        RFC 3404

        Title:      Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
                    Part Four: The Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
                    Resolution Application
        Author(s):  M. Mealling
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       October 2002
        Mailbox:    michael@neonym.net
        Pages:      18
        Characters: 40124
        Obsoletes:  2915, 2168

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-urn-uri-res-ddds-07.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3404.txt


This document describes a specification for taking Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URI) and locating an authoritative server for information
about that URI.  The method used to locate that authoritative server
is the Dynamic Delegation Discovery System.

This document is part of a series that is specified in "Dynamic
Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part One: The Comprehensive DDDS"
(RFC 3401).  It is very important to note that it is impossible to
read and understand any document in this series without reading the
others.

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

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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