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[Robichaux, Paul E]

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