diff --git a/IPNI.md b/IPNI.md
index 0455c69..0ccebcc 100644
--- a/IPNI.md
+++ b/IPNI.md
@@ -459,6 +459,22 @@ to fetch the advertisement chain.
 
 An indexer node can be queried over HTTP for a multihash or a CID. This section provides a summary of the HTTP query APIs. A full OpenAPI specification of the APIs can be found [here](schemas/v1/openapi.yaml).
 
+
+#### Cascading Lookup
+
+The HTTP query API supports cascading queries for a given multihash or CID onto alternative routing systems in addition to searching IPNI records.
+A client may optionally specify a query parameter with key set to `cascade`, and value set to comma separated alternative routing systems, which are also searched for records.
+
+The specification imposes no constraints on the order by which the results are returned.
+Implementers are free to return results as they are found.
+
+The alternative routing systems currently supported is:
+ * `ipfs-dht`: equivalent to searching records on the IPFS network.
+
+A client may discover the list of alternative routing systems supported by a server via sending `OPTIONS` request.
+In response, the server may include `X-IPNI-Allow-Cascade` header key, with value as the comma separated list of alternative routing systems supported.
+The absence of this header key implies that the server does not offer cascading lookups.
+
 #### `GET /cid/{cid}`
 
 Given a CID as path parameter, returns a list of its content providers. The lookup ignores CID codec
@@ -469,6 +485,10 @@ and uses the multihash portion of the CID only.
 * `cid` - _Required_. The default string representation of the Cid. Currently, Base32 is used for
   CIDv1 as the encoding for the multibase string and Base58 is used for CIDv0.
 
+##### Query Parameters
+
+* `cascade` - _Optional_. The comma separated alternative routing systems to which the lookup is cascaded in addition to searching IPNI index records. If unspecified, only IPNI index records are searched. See [Cascading Lookup](#cascading-lookup)
+
 ##### Response
 
 * `application/json` - JSON encoded [`FindResponse`][find-response-schema]. See [JSON Find Response](#json-find-response) example.
@@ -488,6 +508,11 @@ Given a multihash as path parameter, returns a list of its content providers.
 
 * `multihash` - _Required_. The Base58 string representation of multihash value.
 
+##### Query Parameters
+
+* `cascade` - _Optional_. The comma separated alternative routing systems to which the lookup is cascaded in addition to searching IPNI index records. If unspecified, only IPNI index records are searched. See [Cascading Lookup](#cascading-lookup)
+
+
 ##### Response
 
 * `application/json` - JSON encoded [`FindResponse`][find-response-schema]. See [JSON Find Response](#json-find-response) example.
@@ -520,6 +545,11 @@ Base58 string representation. See [`FindRequest`][find-request-schema] schema.
 }
 ```
 
+##### Query Parameters
+
+* `cascade` - _Optional_. The comma separated alternative routing systems to which the lookup is cascaded in addition to searching IPNI index records. If unspecified, only IPNI index records are searched. See [Cascading Lookup](#cascading-lookup)
+
+
 ##### Response
 
 * `application-json` - JSON encoded [`FindResponse`][find-response-schema]. See [JSON Batch Find Response](#json-batch-find-response) example.
@@ -650,6 +680,6 @@ The following lists the libraries and implementations of IPNI protocol:
 
 Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
 
-[find-response-schema]: schemas/v1/openapi.yaml#L108
-[provider-record-schema]: (schemas/v1/openapi.yaml#L124)
-[find-request-schema]: schemas/v1/openapi.yaml#L144
+[find-response-schema]: schemas/v1/openapi.yaml#L120
+[provider-record-schema]: (schemas/v1/openapi.yaml#L136)
+[find-request-schema]: schemas/v1/openapi.yaml#L156
diff --git a/schemas/v1/openapi.yaml b/schemas/v1/openapi.yaml
index 54f8b03..542c145 100644
--- a/schemas/v1/openapi.yaml
+++ b/schemas/v1/openapi.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 openapi: 3.0.3
 info:
   title: IPNI HTTP API
-  summary: IPNI HTTP query API
   description: The Interplanetary Network Indexer (IPNI) HTTP query API.
   version: 0.0.1
 paths:
@@ -13,6 +12,7 @@ paths:
           in: path
           description: The string representation of the CID.
           required: true
+        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Cascade'
       responses:
         '200':
           description: At least one provider was found successfully.
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ paths:
           description: Failure occurred while processing the request.
           content:
             text/plain: { }
+  /cid:
+    options:
+      description: Returns permitted communication options for lookup by CID.
+      responses:
+        204:
+          $ref: '#/components/responses/FindOptions'
   /multihash/{multihash}:
     get:
       description: Finds provider records for a given multihash
@@ -47,6 +53,7 @@ paths:
           in: path
           description: The base58 string representation of the multihash.
           required: true
+        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Cascade'
       responses:
         '200':
           description: At least one provider was found successfully.
@@ -74,6 +81,11 @@ paths:
           content:
             text/plain: { }
   /multihash:
+    options:
+      description: Returns permitted communication options for lookup by multihash.
+      responses:
+        204:
+          $ref: '#/components/responses/FindOptions'
     post:
       description: Batch finds provider records for a given set of multihashes
       requestBody:
@@ -236,6 +248,45 @@ components:
             }
           ]
         }
+  parameters:
+    Cascade:
+      name: cascade
+      in: query
+      description: |
+        The comma separated list of routing systems to search for providers in addition to IPNI.
+        The list of supported routing systems can be discovered by reading `X-IPNI-Allow-Cascade`
+        response header to `OPTIONS` request.
+      schema:
+        type: string
+      required: false
+  responses:
+    FindOptions:
+      description: Request accepted.
+      headers:
+        Access-Control-Allow-Origin:
+          description: |
+            The origin permitted to the request.
+            See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
+          schema:
+            type: string
+        Access-Control-Allow-Headers:
+          description: |
+            The comma separated list of HTTP headers inspected by the server.
+            See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Headers
+          schema:
+            type: string
+        Access-Control-Allow-Methods:
+          description: |
+            The comma separated list of permitted HTTP methods.
+            See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Request-Method
+          schema:
+            type: string
+        X-IPNI-Allow-Cascade:
+          description: |
+            The comma separated list of supported routing systems onto which the lookup can be cascaded.
+            The absence of this header implies that the server does not offer cascading lookups.
+          schema:
+            type: string
 externalDocs:
   description: IPNI Specification
   url: https://github.com/ipni/specs/blob/main/IPNI.md
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