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HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0
RFC 2296

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['HTTP-RVSA', 'Hyper', 'Text', 'Transfer', 'protocol', 'URL', 'Uniform', 'Resource', 'Locators']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "A. Mutz": changed name from "Andrew Mutz" to "A. Mutz", changed affiliation from "Hewlett-Packard" to "Hewlett-Packard Company", cleared country (was "Palo Alto CA …
Changed author "A. Mutz": changed name from "Andrew Mutz" to "A. Mutz", changed affiliation from "Hewlett-Packard" to "Hewlett-Packard Company", cleared country (was "Palo Alto CA 94304, USA"), changed order from "0" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "K. Holtman": changed name from "Koen Holtman" to "K. Holtman", changed affiliation from "TUE" to "Technische Universiteit Eindhoven", cleared country (was "5600 MB …
Changed author "K. Holtman": changed name from "Koen Holtman" to "K. Holtman", changed affiliation from "TUE" to "Technische Universiteit Eindhoven", cleared country (was "5600 MB Eindhoven (The Netherlands)")
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2021-12-10
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'HTTP allows web site authors to put multiple versions of the same information under a single …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'HTTP allows web site authors to put multiple versions of the same information under a single URL.  Transparent content negotiation is a mechanism for automatically selecting the best version when the URL is accessed.  A remote variant selection algorithm can be used to speed up the transparent negotiation process.  This document defines the remote variant selection algorithm with the version number 1.0.', changed standardization level to Historic)
2021-12-06
Amy Vezza New status of Historic approved by the IESG
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-http-experiments-to-historic/
1998-03-01
(System) RFC published