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Robichaux, Paul E
perobich at ingr.com
Mon Feb 26 05:49:03 PST 1996
Alex Strasheim said:
>(A useful feature for Netscape might be a facility that checks
>periodically to see if a security patch is in order, and displays a
>warning if it is.)
The Simple Internet Version Control (SIVC, pronounced "civic") protocol does
just this. See http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/sivc/spec.html for details.
SIVC is popular on the Mac, but I don't know if it's been put up as an RFC.
-Paul
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