<reference anchor="RFC3986" target="https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3986" xml:base="https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3986.xml">
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<title>Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax</title>
<author initials="T." surname="Berners-Lee" fullname="T. Berners-Lee"><organization/></author>
<author initials="R." surname="Fielding" fullname="R. Fielding"><organization/></author>
<author initials="L." surname="Masinter" fullname="L. Masinter"><organization/></author>
<date year="2005" month="January"/>
<abstract><t>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]</t></abstract>
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<seriesInfo name="STD" value="66"/>
<seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3986"/>
<seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC3986"/>
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