RFC 7595 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2015
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
Guidelines and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes
Overview
RFC 7595, “Guidelines and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes”, is a Best Current Practice document published in June 2015 by D. Thaler, T. Hansen, T. Hardie. It obsoletes RFC 4395. It has since been updated by RFC 8615. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document updates the guidelines and recommendations, as well as the IANA registration processes, for the definition of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes. It obsoletes RFC 4395.
What “Best Current Practice” means
Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.
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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 2015
- RFC 7594 A Framework for Large-Scale Measurement of Broadband Performance
- RFC 7596 Lightweight 4over6: An Extension to the Dual-Stack Lite Architecture
- RFC 7593 The eduroam Architecture for Network Roaming
- RFC 7597 Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation
- RFC 7592 OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Management Protocol
- RFC 7598 DHCPv6 Options for Configuration of Softwire Address and Port-Mapped Clients
- RFC 7591 OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol
- RFC 7599 Mapping of Address and Port using Translation