RFC 3986Edit

RFC 3986 is an RFC titled, "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax". A grammar is provided that describes the syntax; it is written using ABNF notation, which is itself described in RFC 2234.

See also

• URI
• URL (a special class of URI) and URN (another special class)
• Full text of RFC 3986: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt