Standards

Discovery and Web Metadata

• RFC 8615: Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers - convention for predictable /.well-known/ metadata locations.
• RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol - standard behavior for robots.txt.
• Sitemaps XML format - conventional URL discovery for crawlers and indexers.

Identity and Authorization

• RFC 6749: OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework - delegated authorization foundation.
• RFC 6750: OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage - bearer token usage over HTTP.
• RFC 7519: JSON Web Token - compact claims format for tokens.
• OpenID Connect Core - identity layer built on OAuth 2.0.

APIs and Schemas

• RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics - core HTTP semantics.
• OpenAPI Specification - machine-readable HTTP API descriptions.
• JSON Schema - schema vocabulary for JSON data.
• GraphQL Specification - query language and execution semantics for GraphQL APIs.

Knowledge Representation

• RDF 1.1 Concepts - resource description model for graph data.
• SPARQL 1.1 Query Language - query language for RDF graphs.