URI Specification Development

This is a working area for the IETF specifications on Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), Relative URLs, and Hypertext References. It includes most of the editor's revision history for the specifications leading up to RFC1808, RFC2396, and RFC3986, along with various URL parsing tests, copies of related RFCs, and historical drafts.

Please note that the IETF URI working group concluded in 1995. However, we still use the URI mailing list for discussion of URI-related drafts by individual authors.

Current Work

Hypertext References

• TBD: these links are not usable yet.
• Editor's copy
• Internet Draft
• Compare Internet Draft and Editor's copy
• Draft History
• Source Repo

Testing Implementations

• Old URI parsing test pages: 1 2 3 4 5

Building the Draft

Formatted text and HTML versions of the draft can be built using make.

$ make

This requires that you have the necessary software installed. See the instructions.

Contributing

See our guidelines for contribution. Please avoid suggesting any changes to the historical portions of this archive, since those won't be accepted.

Completed Work

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax

• RFC3986 [html, xml]
• Issues List [xml, xslt]
• Editor's copy and XML source
• Draft History
• Source Repo
• Example 3986 relative parser with input and output
• Implementation Reports [xml]

Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax

• RFC2396 [html, xml]
• Editor's copy
• Draft History
• Source Repo

Relative Uniform Resource Locators

• RFC1808 [local]
• Editor's copy
• Draft History
• Source Repo