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Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part One: The Comprehensive DDDS
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group M. Mealling
Request for Comments: 3401 VeriSign
Updates: 2276 October 2002
Obsoletes: 2915, 2168
Category: Informational
Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
Part One: The Comprehensive DDDS
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document specifies the exact documents that make up the complete
Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS). DDDS is an abstract
algorithm for applying dynamically retrieved string transformation
rules to an application-unique string.
This document along with RFC 3402, RFC 3403 and RFC 3404 obsolete RFC
2168 and RFC 2915, as well as updates RFC 2276.
1. Intended Audience
This document and the documents that it references are intended for
anyone attempting to implement or understand the generic DDDS
algorithm, URI Resolution, ENUM telephone number to URI resolution,
and the NAPTR DNS resource record. The reader is warned that reading
one of the documents in this series without reading the others will
probably lead to misunderstandings and interoperability problems.
2. Introduction
The Dynamic Delegation Discovery System is used to implement lazy
binding of strings to data, in order to support dynamically
configured delegation systems. The DDDS functions by mapping some
unique string to data stored within a DDDS Database by iteratively
applying string transformation rules until a terminal condition is
reached. This document defines the entire DDDS by listing the
documents that make up the complete specification at this time.
Mealling Informational
