I-D ACTION:draft-fielding-uri-syntax-04.txt

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	Title           : Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic
			  Syntax
	Author(s)	: T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter
	Filename	: draft-fielding-uri-syntax-04.txt
	Pages		: 15
	Date		: 16-Jul-98
	
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of characters
for identifying an abstract or physical resource.  This document
defines the generic syntax of URI, including both absolute and relative
forms, and guidelines for their use; it revises and replaces the
generic definitions in RFC 1738 and RFC 1808.

This document defines a grammar that is a superset of all valid URI,
such that an implementation can parse the common components of a URI
reference without knowing the scheme-specific requirements of every
possible identifier type.  This document does not define a generative
grammar for URI; that task will be performed by the individual
specifications of each URI scheme.

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