RFC 1630 Edit

Created 2007-06-05, updated 2017-05-18

RFC 1630, or "Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW", is an RFC proposing the formalization of a distinction between URLs, URIs and URNs.

See also

Full text of RFC 1630: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1630.txt
Wikipedia article on URIs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier