RFC 2368 on The mailto URL scheme

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        RFC 2368:

        Title:      The mailto URL scheme
	Author(s):  P. Hoffman, L. Masinter, J. Zawinski
	Status:     Proposed Standard
	Date:       July 1998
        Mailbox:    phoffman at imc.org, masinter at parc.xerox.com,
		    jwz at netscape.com
	Pages:      10
        Characters: 16502
        Updates:    1738, 1808

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2368.txt


This document defines the format of Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
for designating electronic mail addresses. It is one of a suite of
documents which replace RFC 1738, 'Uniform Resource Locators', and
RFC 1808, 'Relative Uniform Resource Locators'. The syntax of
'mailto' URLs from RFC 1738 is extended to allow creation of more RFC
822 messages by allowing the URL to express additional header and body
fields.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
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