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        RFC 1630:

        Title:      Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW: A Unifying
                    Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses
                    of Objects on the Network as used in the
                    World-Wide Web
        Author:     T. Berners-Lee
        Mailbox:    timbl@info.cern.ch
        Pages:      28
        Characters: 57,601
        Update/Obsoletes:  none


IESG Note: Note that the work contained in this memo does not describe
an Internet standard.  An Internet standard for general Resource
Identifiers is under development within the IETF.

This document defines the syntax used by the World-Wide Web initiative
to encode the names and addresses of objects on the Internet.  The web
is considered to include objects accessed using an extendable number
of protocols, existing, invented for the web itself, or to be invented
in the future.  Access instructions for an individual object under a
given protocol are encoded into forms of address string.  Other
protocols allow the use of object names of various forms.  In order to
abstract the idea of a generic object, the web needs the concepts of
the universal set of objects, and of the universal set of names or
addresses of objects.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute