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The Application Exchange (APEX) Access Service

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Network Working Group                                            M. Rose
Request for Comments: 3341                  Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
Category: Standards Track                                       G. Klyne
                                                  Clearswift Corporation
                                                              D. Crocker
                                             Brandenburg InternetWorking
                                                               July 2002


             The Application Exchange (APEX) Access Service

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This memo describes the Application Exchange (APEX) access service,
   addressed as the well-known endpoint "apex=access".  The access
   service is used to control use of both the APEX "relaying mesh" and
   other APEX services.

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
   2.  Use and Management of Access Information . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.1 Querying Access Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.2 Retrieval of Access Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.3 Update of Access Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   3.  Format of Access Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   3.1 Finding the Appropriate Entry: Matching Owners and Actors  . . 11
   3.2 Creating and Updating Access Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   4.  The Access Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   4.1 Use of XML and MIME  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   4.2 The Query Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   4.3 The Get Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   4.4 The Set Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
   4.5 The Reply Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
   5.  Registration: The Access Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
   6.  The Access Service DTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21



Rose, et. al.               Standards Track
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