RFC 5854 on The Metalink Download Description Format

[Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@gmail.com>]

The Metalink RFC is finished. It varies slightly from the earlier
community version. About 7 programs currently support it.

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Subject: RFC 5854 on The Metalink Download Description Format
Date: Tue,  1 Jun 2010 12:38:32 -0700 (PDT)
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       RFC 5854

       Title:      The Metalink Download Description Format
       Author:     A. Bryan, T. Tsujikawa,
                   N. McNab, P. Poeml
       Status:     Standards Track
       Stream:     IETF
       Date:       June 2010
       Mailbox:    anthonybryan@gmail.com,
                   tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com,
                   neil@nabber.org,  peter@poeml.de
       Pages:      39
       Characters: 72641
       Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

       I-D Tag:    draft-bryan-metalink-28.txt

       URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5854.txt

This document specifies Metalink, an XML-based download description
format.  Metalink describes download locations (mirrors),
cryptographic hashes, and other information.  Clients can
transparently use this information to reliably transfer files.
[STANDARDS TRACK]

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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