RFC 2731 is Obsolete

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This document recommends that RFC 2731, on Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML, be reclassified as Historic, as further development of this specification has moved to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.¶

[RFC2731] defines "Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML". Newer specifications published by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), in particular "Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements" (DC-HTML, <http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-html/>), have obsoleted this work.¶

This document recommends that the IESG reclassify [RFC2731] as Historic.¶

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5. Informative References

[RFC2731]

Kunze, J., “Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML”, RFC 2731, December 1999.

This proposal has been discussed and approved on the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list (<DC-ARCHITECTURE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=DC-ARCHITECTURE;XwVOng;20090818152516%2B0200>).¶