In this paper, the author describes a mechanism for automatically maintaining resource location systems which contain pointers to resources. This document is an Internet Draft. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet Drafts.
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Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. Please check the I-D abstract listing contained in each Internet Draft directory to learn the current status of this or any other Internet Draft. This Internet Draft expires April 22, 1993. Although a number of systems have been created in the last several years to provide resource location and navigation on the Internet, the information contained in these systems must be maintained and updated by hand. This paper describes an automatic mechanism, the resource transponder, for maintaining resource location information.