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INTERNET STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2732,RFC 2396,RFC 1808

Updates:

RFC 1738

Updated by:

RFC 6874,RFC 7320,RFC 8820

Authors:

T. Berners-Lee
R. Fielding
L. Masinter

Stream:

IETF

Source:

NON WORKING GROUP

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3986

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Abstract

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. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.