A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Metalink/XML Clients, Publishers, and Caches Author(s) : Anthony Bryan Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa Neil McNab Filename : draft-bryan-metalink-client-00.txt Pages : 15 Date : 2012-07-04 Abstract: This document specifies behavior for Metalink/XML clients, publishers, and proxy caches. way to get information that is usually contained in the Metalink XML-based download description format. Metalink XML files contain multiple download locations (mirrors and Peer-to-Peer), cryptographic hashes, digital signatures, and other information. Metalink clients can use this information to make file transfers more robust and reliable. Normative requirements for Metalink/XML clients, publishers, and proxy caches are described here. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bryan-metalink-client There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bryan-metalink-client-00 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt