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In many IoT applications, direct discovery of resources is notpractical due to sleeping nodes, disperse networks, or networks wheremulticast traffic is inefficient. These problems can be solved byemploying an entity called a Resource Directory (RD), which containsinformation about resources held on other servers, allowing lookups tobe performed for those resources. The input to an RD is composed oflinks and the output is composed of links constructed from theinformation stored in the RD. This document specifies the webinterfaces that a Resource Directory supports for web servers todiscover the RD and to register, maintain, lookup and removeinformation on resources. Furthermore, new target attributes useful inconjunction with an RD are defined.

CoRE Resource Directory