[rfc-dist] RFC 4437 on Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Redirect Reference Resources

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        RFC 4437

        Title:      Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning 
                    (WebDAV) Redirect Reference Resources 
        Author:     J. Whitehead,  G. Clemm, 
                    J. Reschke,  Ed.
        Status:     Experimental
        Date:       March 2006
        Mailbox:    ejw at cse.ucsc.edu, 
                    julian.reschke at greenbytes.degeoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com
        Pages:      25
        Characters: 49932
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-webdav-redirectref-protocol-13.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4437.txt

This specification defines an extension to Web Distributed Authoring
and Versioning (WebDAV) to allow clients to author HTTP redirect
reference resources whose default response is an HTTP/1.1 3xx
(Redirection) status code.  A redirect reference makes it possible to
access the target resourced indirectly through any URI mapped to the
redirect reference resource.  This specification does not address
remapping of trees of resources or regular expression based
redirections.  There are no integrity guarantees associated with
redirect reference resources.  Other mechanisms can also be used to
achieve the same functionality as this specification.  This
specification allows operators to experiment with this mechanism and
develop experience on what is the best approach to the problem.  This 
memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

This document is a product of the WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning
Working Group of the IETF.

EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet 
community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. 
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Joyce K. Reynolds and Sandy Ginoza
USC/Information Sciences Institute

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