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header to be registered so as to be treated in a common fashion by
News- and Mail- based systems.

This is inspired by the "How to get the latest version of this FAQ"
best-practice in the FAQ-writing community.

This is semantically a special case of the following existing or
proposed headers:

References: RFC 822
URI: ??

But one would often want to distinguish between a URI: header
used (in a mailed copy of a Web page) to identify the precise
source of the version present in the message body from the
persistent URI that systematically should be used to get the
latest version at an indefinite future time. This is not just
FAQs. Any living document would be a suitable place to use this.

Al Gilman
asgilman@access.digex.net http://access.digex.net/~asgilman/

PS: we need to standardize the syntax by which references of type
URI are embedded in the References: header in an RFC 822 context.

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