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        RFC 2016:

        Title:      Uniform Resource Agents (URAs)
        Author:     L. Daigle,  P. Deutsch, B. Heelan,
                    C. Alpaugh, M. Maclachlan
        Date:       October 1996
        Mailbox:    ura-bunyip@bunyip.com
        Pages:      21
        Characters: 38,355
        Updates/Obsoletes:  None

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2016.txt


This paper presents an experimental architecture for an agent system
that provides sophisticated Internet information access and
management.  Not a generalized architecture for active objects that
roam the Internet, these agents are modeled as extensions of existing
pieces of the Internet information infrastructure.  This experimental
agent technology focuses on the necessary information structures to
encapsulate Internet activities into objects that can be activated,
transformed, and combined into larger structured activities. 

This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community.  This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any
kind.  Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
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Joyce K. Reynolds and Mary Kennedy
USC/Information Sciences Institute