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        RFC 2396:  

        Title:	    Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
	Author(s):  T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter
	Status:     Draft Standard
	Date:       August 1998
        Mailbox:    timbl@w3.org, fielding@ics.uci.edu,
		    masinter@parc.xerox.com
	Pages:      39
        Characters: 83639
        Updates:    1808, 1738


        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2396.txt


This document defines a grammar that is a superset of all valid URI,
such that an implementation can parse the common components of a URI
reference without knowing the scheme-specific requirements of every
possible identifier type.  This document does not define a generative
grammar for URI; that task will be performed by the individual
specifications of each URI scheme.

This is now a Draft Standard Protocol.

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the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute