# RFC 6454 Metadata Lookup

> RFC 6454 Metadata Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from dev.intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Retrieves full metadata for RFC 6454 (The Web Origin Concept) including title, authors, dates, status, abstract, and related RFC links from rfc-editor.org.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://dev.intel.rallylive.ca/dev/rfc/8705?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/rfc-6454-metadata-lookup-7b50abd3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_mbY-Dmk1dWxqUaIc_u3cg

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability rfc-6454-metadata-lookup-7b50abd3
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the metadata for RFC 6454 — I need the title, authors, publication date, status, and abstract for my protocol research?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need machine-readable metadata for RFC 6454 specifically, particularly for protocol tooling, documentation generation, or compliance checks. It is purpose-built for single RFC lookups and abstracts away direct rfc-editor.org scraping, making it ideal for agents that need structured RFC data without HTML parsing. If you need a different RFC, use the corresponding sibling endpoint (e.g. rfc-791).

## Known failure modes

- rfc-editor.org upstream unavailable — service may return 503 or timeout
- RFC number not found — unlikely for well-known RFCs like 6454 but possible if numbering is misrouted
- Stale cached data — status or obsoleted-by fields may lag behind latest IETF updates
- Payment failure — x402 micropayment not processed, call rejected before reaching upstream

## How this service works

RFC 8705: title, authors, publication date, status (Internet Standard, Proposed Standard, Informational…), page count, what obsoletes or updates it and what it obsoletes, keywords, abstract and links to the HTML/text versions, from rfc-editor.org. One RFC, one call, for protocol work. $0.01 per call.

## Output

Returns structured metadata for RFC 6454 including: title, list of authors, publication date, standards status (e.g. Proposed Standard, Internet Standard), page count, which RFCs it obsoletes or updates and which obsolete it, keywords, full abstract text, and URLs to the HTML and plain-text versions on rfc-editor.org.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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