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`W3C Staff Note on HTTP Distribution and Replication Protocol
`Submission
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`The Consortium is pleased to have received this specification as a submission, and acknowledges the
`interest in such a mechanism indicated by several Member companies.
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`The proposal will be discussed at the W3C workshop on "push" technology in September.
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`That workshop will give participants a chance to comment on the path the consortium should take. At this
`time we are not promising any allocation of further W3C resources to this proposal after the Push
`Workshop.
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`This technology impacts URI specifications, HTTP, and includes anew XML mime type. Much of the
`functionality should be able to be provided by the Resource Description Framework currently being
`developed in the metadata activity. There are other components of the DRP proposal that have
`requirements in common with other W3C and IETF activities(notably DSig Manifests and WEBDAV
`versioning) and should this proposal be actively considered, W3C will work to insure the harmonization of
`the related activities.
`Note: Patent rights
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`On 1997 August 27, I received a message from Albion Fitzgerald of Novadigm Inc, asserting that Novadigm
`may have patent rights in this area, and revealing in their enclosed press release made the same day, that
`Novadigm sued Marimba in March 1997. I bring this to your attention.
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`Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director
`$Date: 1997/08/28 16:22:40 $
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