RFC 3305 · INFORMATIONAL · 2002

Report from the Joint W3C/IETF URI Planning Interest Group: Uniform Resource Identifiers , URLs, and Uniform Resource Names : Clarifications and Recommendations

Overview

RFC 3305, “Report from the Joint W3C/IETF URI Planning Interest Group: Uniform Resource Identifiers , URLs, and Uniform Resource Names : Clarifications and Recommendations”, is an Informational document published in August 2002 by M. Mealling, R. Denenberg. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This paper is the product of the W3C URI Interest Group. It addresses and attempts to clarify two issues pertaining to URIs, and presents recommendations. Section 1 addresses how URI space is partitioned and the relationship between URIs, URLs, and URNs. Section 2 describes how URI schemes and URN namespace ids are registered. Section 3 mentions additional unresolved issues not considered by this paper and section 4 presents recommendations. Questions concerning this document should be directed to the uri@w3.org mailing list.

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