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Section 2 defines a set of URI spaces that are used to identify a variety of SNOMED CT resources, but it does not talk about discuss 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.

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

• (1) http://myservice.example.com/?urluri=http://snomed.info/{...}

might be redirected with an HTTP response code of 303 to

• (2) http://myservice.example.com/snomed/{...}

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

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