Common Name Resolution Protocol BOF (cnrp)

Tuesday, March 16 at 1300-1515
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Chair: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>

DESCRIPTION:

People often refer to things in the world by a common name or phrase, 
e.g., a trade name, company name, or a book title.  These names are 
sometimes easier for people to remember and enter than URLs; many 
people consider URLs hard to remember or type.

Services are arising that offer a mapping by common name into Internet 
resources; such resolution services include common names such as 
company names and trade names.  Clients of such services are being 
built either as enhancements to browsers (through add-ons, plug-ins), 
or as enhancements to search engines (where common name lookup is one 
possible response to a more general query.)

The BOF will discuss a proposed Working Group charter and an initial 
proposal for the query protocol.

AGENDA:

1) Review of the scope and purpose of the group
2) Review of the proposed charter
3) Discussion of the proposed charter
4) Discussion the query protocol document: draft-popp-protocol-hfn-00.txt