STD 66, RFC 3986 on Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax

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        STD 66
        RFC 3986

        Title:      Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
        Author(s):  T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       January 2005
        Mailbox:    timbl@w3.org, fielding@gbiv.com, LMM@acm.org
        Pages:      61
        Characters: 141811
        Updates:    1738
        Obsoletes:  2732, 2396, 1808

        I-D Tag:    draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-07.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3986.txt

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact sequence of
characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource.  This
specification defines the generic URI syntax and a process for
resolving URI references that might be in relative form, along with
guidelines and security considerations for the use of URIs on the
Internet.  The URI syntax defines a grammar that is a superset of all
valid URIs, allowing an implementation to parse the common
components of a URI reference without knowing the scheme-specific
requirements of every possible identifier.  This specification does
not define a generative grammar for URIs; that task is performed by
the individual specifications of each URI scheme.

This is now a Standard Protocol.

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