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Section 2 above defines  defines a set of URI spaces that are used to identify a variety of SNOMED CT resources, but it does not talk about resolving these URIs. The URIs in the standard use the http scheme and the domain name snomed.info, which is owned by SNOMED International. This means that SNOMED International is in control of whether or not these URIs, when treated as URLs and resolved, will result in a document being available, a 404 ("Not Found") error, or something else.

However, a Release Centre or other service provider may also want to support the resolution of these URIs. A general approach to this involves deploying a resolving service with an endpoint URL such as

• http://myservice.example.com/

which is configured to resolve URLs that embed SNOMED CT URIs. Continuing the example, a URL of the following form

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What might such a document look like? Let us consider the example URL

• http://myservice.example.com/?url=http://snomed.info/id/900000000000498005

The document ultimately returned by the service might be in JSON or XML or HTML or plain text format and contain information indicating that the SCTID is valid, and refers to a non-extension Concept

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