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INTERNET-DRAFT                                            M. Yevstifeyev
Intended Status: Standards Track                      September 25, 2011
Updates: 959, 1738, 4002 (if approved)                                  
Expires: March 28, 2012                                                 

                          The 'ftp' URI Scheme
                  draft-yevstifeyev-ftp-uri-scheme-08

Abstract

   This document specifies the 'ftp' Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
   scheme, which is used to refer to resources accessible via File
   Transfer Protocol (FTP).  It updates RFC 959, RFC 1738 and RFC 4002.

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2. Terminology and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     2.1. Conformance Criteria  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     2.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     2.3. Formal Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     2.4. Interpreting Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     2.5. Miscellaneous Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3. URI Scheme Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.1. URI Scheme Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.2. URI Scheme Semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       3.2.1. The <host> and <port> Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       3.2.2. The <userinfo> Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       3.2.3. The <ftp-path> Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
         3.2.3.1. The <typecode-part> Part  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       3.2.4. Queries and Fragment Identifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . 11
         3.2.4.1. Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
         3.2.4.2. Fragment Identifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     3.3. Encoding Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   4. Examples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     4.1. Examples of 'ftp' IRIs and Internationalized URIs . . . . . 16
   5. Security and Privacy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   6. Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     6.1. UCS Characters in 'ftp' URIs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     6.2. 'ftp' IRIs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     6.3. Handling 'ftp' URIs with UCS Characters and 'ftp' IRIs  . . 19
       6.3.1. Internationalized <host> Part in 'ftp' URIs and
              <ihost> Part in 'ftp' IRIs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
       6.3.2. Internationalized <ftp-path> Part in 'ftp' URIs and
              <iftp-path> in 'ftp' IRIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     6.4. Internationalization of Actual Data Interchange . . . . . . 20
   7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
     7.1. The 'ftp' URI Scheme  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
     7.2. The 'ftps' URI Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
     7.3. Maintaining ftp.uri.arpa Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     7.4. 'd' FTP TYPE Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     7.5. Changes to 'fp:ftp' Enumservice Registration Template . . . 21
   8. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     8.1. Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     8.2. Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
   Appendix A. 'ftp' URIs and Other Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
     A.1. Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) and 'ftp' URIs . 26
     A.2. ENUM and 'ftp' URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   Appendix B. Previous Syntax Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
     B.1. RFC 1630  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
 


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     B.2. RFC 1738  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
   Appendix C. List of Changes since RFC 1738 . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
   Appendix D. Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
   Author's Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

1. Introduction

   File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to
   copy a file from one host to another over a TCP-based network.  It
   has had a very long history; the protocol is rooted in the early
   1970s, the times of ARPANET, with the first specification being RFC
   354 [RFC0354]; the most current FTP specification is RFC 959
   [RFC0959].  RFC 1123 [RFC1123] made a number of changes to FTP
   specification.

   The 'ftp' Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme, used for
   referencing resources accessible via FTP, has been deployed.  It was
   first mentioned in RFC 1630 [RFC1630] - pre-Standard Track RFC on
   URIs.  Later, RFC 1738 [RFC1738], Section 3.2 specified this scheme,
   as well as many others, on IETF Standards Track.  This document
   extracts the definition of the 'ftp' URI scheme from this document to
   retain it on Standard Track if and when RFC 1738 is moved to Historic
   status [RFC2026][HISTORIC] as well as makes several changes to suit
   current scheme usage.  (With the first respect it belongs to a series
   of similar documents like RFC 2368 [RFC2368], which is now obsoleted
   by RFC 6068 [RFC6068], RFC 4248 [RFC4248], RFC 4266 [RFC4266], and
   RFC 5538 [RFC5538]; RFC 4156 [RFC4156] and RFC 4157 [RFC4157] also
   extracted definition of 'wais' and 'prospero' schemes from RFC 1738
   but have no relation to Standards Track, since the aforementioned
   schemes are historical.)  It updates RFC 959, RFC 1738 and RFC 4002
   (for motivation of the latter, see Appendix A.2).

   Generic URI syntax is described in RFC 3986 [RFC3986]; registration
   procedures for new URI schemes - in RFC 4395 [RFC4395].

2. Terminology and Conventions

2.1. Conformance Criteria

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC
   2119 [RFC2119].

2.2. Terminology

   In this document, the terms "client" and "server" are used in the
   meaning of "user-FTP process" and "server-FTP process", respectively,
 


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   which are defined in Section 2.2 of RFC 959 [RFC0959].  The terms
   "FTP command" (referred to as "command" within this document), "user-
   PI", "server-PI", "user-DTP", "server-DTP", "control connection",
   "data connection", "reply" and "user" are used with the meaning
   defined in the same document.  Sections 3.3 and 6 make use of terms
   described in RFC 6365 [RFC6365].  Terms related to DDDS used in
   Appendix A, especially those which occur capitalized, are described
   in RFC 3402 [RFC3402].  IDNA-related terminology is derived from RFC
   5890 [RFC5890].

   In this document "ASCII" refers to the American Standard Code for
   Information Interchange, character set defined in ANSI Standard X3.4
   [ASCII]; definition of Net-ASCII found in Appendix B of RFC 5198
   [RFC5198] may be considered to be equivalent.

   In this document "EBCIDIC" refers to the Extended Binary Coded
   Decimal Interchange Code, a proprietary character set of IBM
   Corporation defined at
   <http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/g11n-res.html> and
   doubled in RFC 183 [RFC0183].

2.3. Formal Syntax

   This document uses the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) [RFC5234]
   for description of formal syntax.  The <host>, <port>, <unreserved>,
   <pct-encoded>, and <sub-delims> rules are imported from RFC 3986
   [RFC3986] and <ALPHA> rule - from RFC 5234 [RFC5234].

2.4. Interpreting Examples

   In the examples of FTP dialogs presented in this document, lines that
   begin "C> " were sent over the control connection from the user-PI to
   the server-PI, and lines that begin "S> " were sent over the control
   connection from the server-PI to the user-PI.  In all cases, the
   prefixes shown above, including the one space, have been added for
   the purposes of this document, and are not a part of the data
   exchanged between client and server.  Within such dialogs text
   enclosed in angle brackets ("<" and ">", ASCII characters 0x3C and
   0x3E, respectively), unless clearly mentioned in such dialog, is not
   an actual part of FTP exchange but rather describes actions taken by
   parties of exchange or provides general comment.

2.5. Miscellaneous Conventions

   The construction "ASCII character 0xHH", where "HH" represents 2
   hexadecimal digits, is equivalent to RFC 20 [RFC0020] construction
   "ASCII X'HH'" and denotes ASCII character which has been assigned the
   ASCII code HH.  For example, ASCII character 0x5E refers to the "^"
 


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   (caret) and ASCII character 0x7B refers to "{" (left curly bracket).

   The constructions described in Sections 3 and 4 of RFC 5137 [RFC5137]
   are used in this document to point and escape Unicode characters,
   respectively.

3. URI Scheme Specification

3.1. URI Scheme Syntax

   The syntax of 'ftp' URI is described in <ftp-uri> rule below.

     ftp-uri       = "ftp:" ftp-hier-part
     ftp-hier-part = "//" [ userinfo "@" ] host [ ":" port ] 
                     [ ftp-path ]

     userinfo      = user [ ":" pass ]
     user          = 1*usp-char
     pass          = *usp-char
     usp-char      = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims

     ftp-path      = [ cwd-part ] "/" last-segment [ typecode-part ]
     cwd-part      = *( "/" cwd )
     cwd           = segment-nsc
     last-segment  = segment-nsc
     segment-nsc   = *pchar-nsc
     pchar-nsc     = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims-nsc / ":" 
                   / "@"
     sub-delims-nsc = "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")" / "*" / "+" /
                   / "," / "="
                   ; RFC 3986 <sub-delims> excluding semicolon (";")
                   ; character (ASCII character 0x3B)
     typecode-part = ";type=" typecode
     typecode      = "a" / "e" / "i" / "u" / "d" / typecode-ext
     typecode-ext  = ALPHA

   RFC 3986 deprecated the use of "user:pass" format of the <userinfo>
   part of URIs.  However, for some historical reasons, the benefits of
   the use of such construction for denoting the user information in the
   'ftp' URIs are valuable enough to overlook this issue; see Section
   3.2.2 of this document.

   When <ftp-path> is present, it should be noted that <last-segment> is
   always present, too; it may be null, though.  For instance, the URIs
   <ftp://example.org/> and <ftp://example.net/foo/> have null <last-
   segment>s while <ftp://example.com/big.xls> has the <last-segment>
   equal to "big.xls".

 


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   At strict syntactical level, <ftp-path> may be defined as follows:

     ftp-path       =/ *( "/" cwd ) [ typecode-part ]

   However, for the purpose of better understanding the algorithm of its
   handling given in Section 3.2.3, the definition found in the
   beginning of this section is used.

   Please note that while processing the 'ftp' URI those characters
   which appear percent-encoded, MUST be decoded for the purpose of
   handling the URI, including the actual FTP exchange; see Section 3.3
   for more information.

   The semantics of each part are defined in Section 3.2.

3.2. URI Scheme Semantics

   The 'ftp' URI specifies a resource (a file or a directory listing) on
   the definite FTP server.

   The application resolving the 'ftp' URI SHALL use the following
   algorithm:

   (1) establish the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) [RFC0793]
       connection to the server identified by the <host> on the port
       identified by the <port> (or 21, if not supplied in the 'ftp'
       URI);

   (2) perform an attempt to identify the host it is trying to access
       using the HOST command [I-D ietf-ftpext2-hosts], as described in
       Section 3.2.1;

   (3) authenticate itself to the server;

   (4) request a list of supported features from server using FEAT
       command [RFC2389]; if feature negotiation mechanism is not
       supported by the server, act if the FEAT command has not been
       sent (this step is RECOMMENDED but not required); and

   (5) perform a series of commands according to <ftp-path> part.

   Please note that the client MAY also perform other steps during this
   algorithm, such as requesting the server information using SYST
   command [RFC0959] or select a language of interchange using LANG
   command [RFC2640].  However, performing the steps of this algorithm
   is REQUIRED, modulo step 4, which is RECOMMENDED.

   Handling error replies received during processing the URI, unless
 


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   clearly stated in this document, is implementation-specific.

   Since 'ftp' URI does not denote the transmission mode which is to be
   used, the stream mode, which is described in Section 3.4.1 of RFC 959
   [RFC0959], MUST always be used.

   'ftp' URIs cannot be used for other operations, such as uploading or
   removing a file on a server.

     Note:  The 'ftp' URI scheme supports FTP over TCP only; such
     derivations as FTP over User Datagram Protocol (UDP) [RFC0768] or
     Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) [RFC4960], as known to
     be deployed, are not supported by it.

     Note:  The 'ftp' and the 'file' URI are not the same, even though
     they both may refer to the resource on the local host.

   More detailed description of each URI's parts' semantics is below.

3.2.1. The <host> and <port> Parts

   The <host> part, which is required, specifies the server which a
   connection is to be established to.  The <port> part, which is
   optional, denotes the TCP port for establishing such connection.

   If the <port> part with the preceding colon (":") character (ASCII
   character 0x3A) is omitted, the port SHALL default to 21, as
   registered in [IANA-PORTREG].

   Upon establishing a successful TCP connection, the client MUST first
   try to identify the host it is trying to access using the HOST
   command [I-D ietf-ftpext2-hosts].  It is performed by sending this
   command with the <host> part of the URI as an argument.

   If either 500 or 502 reply is received in response (which identify
   that the HOST command is unrecognized or unimplemented,
   respectively), the client SHALL act as if a HOST command had not been
   sent and continue processing the URI.  If either 501 or 504 reply is
   received (which identify that the supplied hostname is syntactically
   invalid or it is unavailable, respectively), the client's behavior
   depends on how does the server react.  If, in accordance with Section
   3.3 of RFC nnnn [I-D ietf-ftpext2-hosts], the server chooses to
   terminate the connection, the client SHALL notify the user and take
   no further actions.  Otherwise, if the server does not terminate the
   connection, the client SHALL act as if a HOST command had not been
   sent and continue processing the URI.

3.2.2. The <userinfo> Part
 


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   The <userinfo> part, which is optional, consists of the <user> and
   the <pass> parts.  The <user> part, which is required within
   <userinfo>, denotes the user name; the <pass> part, which is optional
   within <userinfo>, - the password.  The user name and the password
   are delimited by the colon (":") character (ASCII character 0x3A).

   There are three cases of handling the <userinfo> part.  The first
   implies that the 'ftp' URI provides entire user credentials (a user
   name and a password).  In this case, upon establishing successful TCP
   connection to the server specified in the URI the client SHALL use
   supplied user name with the USER command; if the server requests the
   password via sending the 331 reply, one supplied in the URI MUST
   first be used.

   The second case covers the situation when the only user name is
   supplied.  Under such circumstances, the client SHALL first use it in
   the USER command; if the server requests the password via sending the
   331 reply, the client MUST either find applicable password to use in
   USER command (e.g. request one from the user) or fail by terminating
   the connection with QUIT command.

   The third case is when the whole <userinfo> part is omitted in the
   URI.  In this case upon establishing the connection the "anonymous
   FTP" [RFC1635] SHALL first be used; it implies use of the following
   credentials:

   (1) the user name "anonymous", and

   (2) the password "guest" or that which is an email address [RFC5322].

     Note:  Current FTP implementations mostly pay no attention to the
     password supplied with the "anonymous" user name.  Thus clients
     SHOULD NOT supply real email addresses, due to the security
     reasons, but SHOULD rather supply either randomly-generated or non-
     existing email addresses under such circumstances.  See also
     Section 5.  (For instance, Mozilla Firefox sends the email address
     "mozilla@example.com" under such circumstances.)

   However, the authentication which implies use of <userinfo> part of
   the URI might be unsuccessful (ie. the server might fail to
   authenticate the user), which is indicated by receiving the 530 reply
   in response to either USER or PASS command.  In this case, the client
   MUST either find applicable credentials to authenticate itself or
   fail by terminating the connection with QUIT command.  If the former
   if chosen, and the server does not accept the credentials, the loop
   is repeated.

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   used with ACCT command.  Thus, if the server requests it for
   authentication (via sending 332 reply to a successful PASS command)
   or it is required for performing other command (which is denoted by
   either 332 or 532 server reply received upon sending such command),
   handling of a URI SHALL be suspended, and the client MUST either find
   applicable account information to use with ACCT command or fail by
   terminating the connection with QUIT command.  If the former if
   chosen, and the server does not accept the supplied token, the loop
   is repeated.

   The <userinfo> part is not intended to define information which
   should be used if the authentication is performed using the AUTH
   command or other mechanism spelled out in RFC 2228 [RFC2228]; see
   Section 5 of this document.

3.2.3. The <ftp-path> Part

   The <ftp-path> part, which is optional, denotes the resource (a file
   or a directory listing) on the server specified by <host>.  For
   better understanding the algorithm below, the ABNF definition of
   <ftp-path> is copied here:

     ftp-path      = [ cwd-part ] "/" last-segment [ typecode-part ]
     cwd-part      = *( "/" cwd )
     cwd           = segment-nsc
     last-segment  = segment-nsc
     segment-nsc   = <defined in Section 3.1>
     typecode-part = ";type=" typecode
     typecode      = "a" / "e" / "i" / "u" / "d" / typecode-ext
     typecode-ext  = ALPHA

   Please note that when <ftp-path> is omitted, for the purpose of
   processing the URI it MUST be considered to be "/" and SHOULD be
   changed to "/" when normalizing the URI.

   The <ftp-path> part SHALL be processed using the following algorithm:

   (1)  if the <cwd-part> is present, each of <cwd> parts are
        consistently supplied as arguments to the CWD (change working
        directory) FTP command;

     Note:  Any null <cwd> parts, allowed per aforementioned syntax,
     MUST NOT cause sending CWD commands, since they might be
     erroneously interpreted by some FTP servers.

   (2)  if the <typecode-part> is present and <typecode> is either "a",
        "e", "i" or "u", perform the TYPE command with the <typecode> as
        an argument;
 


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   (3)  whatever the path is, arrange the data connection to the server
        using an appropriate method, as per those facilities of server
        discovered with FEAT command [RFC2389] (eg. PORT, PASV
        [RFC0959], EPRT or EPSV [RFC2428] command; using LPRT and LPSV
        [RFC1639] commands, which were designated as historical by RFC
        5797 [RFC5797], is strongly discouraged);

   (4a) if <last-segment> is null (whatever <typecode> is), retrieve the
        listing of current directory using appropriate method, as per
        those facilities of server discovered with FEAT command
        [RFC2389] (eg. LIST, NLST [RFC0959] or MLSD [RFC3659] command);

     Note:  If <cwd-part> and <typecode-part> are omitted and <last-
     segment> is null, <ftp-path> refers to the default directory on the
     <host> for the logged user; in this case directory listings are to
     be retrieved directly after establishing data connection, skipping
     steps (1) and (2) above.

   (4b) if the <typecode-part> is present and the <typecode> is equal to
        "d", <last-segment> specifies the directory; in this case
        retrieve listing of the directory specified by <last-segment>
        (or the current directory, if <last-segment> is null) using the
        appropriate method (see above);

   (4c) in the case described in (2) <last-segment> refers to a file;
        retrieve this file using appropriate method (using RETR command
        is RECOMMENDED);

   (4d) otherwise, <last-segment> may refer either to a file or a
        directory listing; perform both subsequent attempts to access
        the file and a directory listing; order of such attempts is non-
        substantial.

     Note:  Some client may involve additional heuristic algorithms to
     determine what does the <last-segment> refer to, such as checking
     its format to see whether is matches the "<name>.<extension>"
     format.  This document allows them to do in such way.

   Please note that the client MAY also perform other steps during this
   algorithm, such as retrieving file size using SIZE command or
   modification time using MSTM command [RFC3659].  However, performing
   the steps of this algorithm is REQUIRED.

   Handling error replies caused by processing the <ftp-path> is
   implementation-specific.

3.2.3.1. The <typecode-part> Part

 


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   The <typecode-part> part specifies the data type of <last-segment>
   and the parameter of FTP TYPE command to be applied to such data. 
   Refer to Section 1.3 of [I-D ietf-ftpext2-typeu] for discussion of
   TYPE history.

   Currently, there are five options of <typecode>: "a", "e", "i", which
   are specified in RFC 959 and stand for ASCII, EBCDIC text, "raw"
   (binary) data, "u", which is specified in RFC mmmm [I-D ietf-ftpext2-
   typeu] and stands for Net-Unicode [RFC5198] text, and "d", which is
   not an actual typecode but rather a "pseudo-typecode" to identify
   that the <last-segment> is a directory.  (The 'd' TYPE parameter is
   hereby reserved; see Section 7.4.)

   The <typecode-ext> production provides a possibility to accommodate
   new typecodes in the 'ftp' URI.  Therefore, when a new FTP data type
   is defined, its specification MUST define its relationship with the
   'ftp' URI.   When the <typecode> refers to the type code which is not
   yet defined, the client SHOULD ignore it.  (For instance, the 'xtp'
   FTP TYPE parameter was eventually proposed [RFC0683] during early
   stages of FTP development.  Currently, hardly somebody knows about
   the existence of this data type parameter; also, it is not a valid
   <typecode> and the URI like <ftp://example.org/a;type=spx> is to be
   treated as <ftp://example/a>.)

3.2.4. Queries and Fragment Identifiers

3.2.4.1. Queries

   This document does not specify the query component to be used in
   'ftp' URIs.  Clients SHOULD ignore it, if present.  Correspondingly,
   any question mark ("?") characters (ASCII character 0x3F), as they
   are not allowed within URIs for any reason other that denoting the
   query component by RFC 3986, MUST be percent-encoded within 'ftp'
   URIs.

3.2.4.2. Fragment Identifiers

   According to RFC 3986, the specification of a definite URI scheme
   must not define the fragment identifiers in the corresponding scheme
   syntax, as they depend on the media type of a resource identified by
   such URI.  Correspondingly, fragment identifier are allowed in any
   URI.

   The number sign ("#") characters (ASCII character 0x23), if used for
   the reason other than to delimit the fragment identifier SHALL be
   percent-encoded.

   If present in 'ftp' URI, fragment identifier is put after the <ftp-
 


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   path> (and <typecode-part>, if present), forming an URI like
   <ftp://example.org/file.txt;type=a#char=100>.  Handling the fragment
   identifier is solely up to the client.

   See Section 4 for an example of an URI with fragment identifier.

3.3. Encoding Considerations

   The parts of 'ftp' URIs may contain characters from ASCII character
   set which are allowed in the corresponding parts.  Those characters
   which are excluded from the allowed characters for a particular part
   SHALL be encoded within this part.

   'ftp' URIs MAY contain characters from Universal Character Set (UCS)
   [UCS] in <host> and <ftp-path> part, as discussed in Section 6. 
   Further internationalization of 'ftp' URIs is discussed ibidem.

   As mentioned before, the characters in ASCII range which appear
   percent-encoded in the URI, MUST be decoded in the actual FTP
   exchange.  This means that when sending data over FTP control
   connection per Section 3.2 of this document percent-encoded
   characters SHALL be replaced with their ASCII equivalents.  However,
   those percent-encoded octets which are outside of ASCII range SHALL
   be transmitted as the corresponding octets.  For instance, "%2F", if
   occurs in the <cwd>, will be replaced with "/", ASCII character 0x2F,
   and "%E7", if occurs ibidem, will be transmitted as octet <E7> when
   sending as an argument to CWD command.

4. Examples

   This section provides several examples of 'ftp' URIs and their valid
   handling per this document.  Within it, DNS names reserved by RFC
   2606 [RFC2606] and IPv4 addresses reserved by RFC 5737 [RFC5737] are
   used.

   The URI 

     <ftp://example.com:49557/%2Fsomedir/seconddir;type=d>

   may result in the following data exchange:

        <client connecting to example.com on port 49557>
     S> 220 ExampleFTP Server ready
     C> HOST example.com
     S> 220 Host accepted
     C> USER anonymous
     S> 331 Anonymous permitted; supply email as password
     C> PASS bad-guy@example.com
 


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     S> 230 Logged in
     C> CWD /somedir
     S> 250 Directory changed
     C> PASV
     S> 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,0,2,12,52,453)
     C> NLST seconddir
     S> 150 Here comes the directory listing
        <server-DTP sending directory listing over data connection 
        to user-DTP>
     S> 226 Directory listing sent

   The URI 

     <ftp://fellow:bad-guy@203.0.113.42/%2Fetc/motd?some=thing>

   may result in the following data exchange:

        <client connecting to 203.0.113.42 on port 21>
     S> 220 CoolFTP Server Ready
     C> HOST 203.0.113.42
     S> 220 Host OK
     C> USER fellow
     S> 331 Specify password
     C> PASS bad-guy
     S> 230 Congrats! Logged in
     C> CWD /etc
     S> 250 Directory changed
     C> PASV
     S> 227 Passive entered (203,0,113,42,61,853)
        <the <last-segment> is a directory to the client's mind>
     C> LIST motd
     S> 550 No such directory
        <in this case <last-segment> refers to a file>
     C> RETR motd
     S> 150 Transfer starts...
        <server-DTP sending motd over data connection to user-DTP>
     S> 226 File is sent
        <client ignores query component>

   Such URI is different from one with <ftp-path> equal to "/etc/motd"
   or "//etc/motd", since both such URI will result in sending "CWD etc"
   instead of <CWD /etc>.

   The following example illustrates the situation when supplied
   credentials are invalid.  Thus, the URI 

     <ftp://user1:invalid-pass@example.net:4916/;type=d> 

 


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   may result in the following:

        <connecting to example.net on port 4916>
     S> 220 GigaSoft FTP - welcome
     C> HOST example.net
     S> 220 Why not :-)
     C> USER user1
     S> 331 Mention password
     C> PASS invalid-pass
     S> 530 Invalid credentials
        <client requests credentials from user>
        <user specified: "right-user" as user name and "right-pass" as 
        password>
     C> USER right-user
     S> 331 Mention password
     C> PASS right-pass
     S> 230 right-user is a cool guy
     C> FEAT
     S> 211-Here the listing comes
     S>  AUTH TLS
     S>  TYPE a;u
     S>  MLST
     S> 211 End
     C> PASV
     S> 227 Passive opened on (198,51,100,41,55,623)
     C> MLSD
     S> 150 Here comes the directory listing
        <server-DTP sending directory listing over data connection 
        to user-DTP>
     S> 226 Directory listing sent

   The following URI contains percent-encoded "?" and "#" characters and
   fragment identifier to illustrate their valid handling.  The URI:

     <ftp://example.org/%3Ffoo/%23bar/file.txt;type=a#char=500>

   may result in the following data exchange:

        <client connecting to example.org on port 21>
     S> 220 Hello
     C> HOST example.org
     S> 220 OK
     C> USER anonymous
     S> 230 No pass required
     C> CWD ?foo
     S> 250 Directory changed
     C> CWD #bar
     S> 250 Directory changed
 


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     C> TYPE a
     S> 200 Accepted
     C> PORT 198,51,100,2,65,123
     S> 200 Accepted
        <the <last-segment> refers to a file to the client's mind>
     C> RETR file.txt
     S> 150 Start transmission
        <server-DTP sending directory listing over data connection 
        to user-DTP>
     S> 226 File sent
        <client chooses to represent a file to the user>
        <according to RFC 5147 [RFC5147] the position after
        the 500th character is displayed>

   The last example illustrates the complicated URI where a number of
   issues should be considered.  Such issues include the server refusing
   to accept host name with HOST command, invalid user credentials,
   inability to support the "u" TYPE parameter and the absence of "bad-
   file.doc".  The URI:

     <ftp://oh-no@example.org:7634/foo//bar/foobar/bad-file.doc;type=u>

   may result in the following data interchange:

        <client connecting to example.org on port 7634>
     S> 220 Yevstifeyev FTP ready
     C> HOST example.org
     S> 504 Unknown host
        <server does not close connection>
     C> USER oh-no
     S> 331 Supply password
        <password not supplied in URI; client requests one from user>
        <user specified: "some-pass" is a password>
     C> PASS some-pass
     S> 530 Invalid credentials
        <client requests credentials from user>
        <user specified: "cool-man" as user name and "cool-pass" as 
        password>
     C> USER cool-man
     S> 331 Supply password
     C> PASS cool-pass
     S> 230 Authenticated
     C> CWD foo
     S> 250 foo is an active directory
     C> CWD bar
     S> 250 foo/bar is an active directory
     C> CWD foobar
     S> 250 foo/bar/foobar is an active directory
 


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     C> TYPE u
     S> 504 U TYPE not supported
     C> PORT 192,0,2,14,64,695
     S> 200 Accepted
     C> RETR bad-file.doc
     S> 550 No such file :-(
        <client notifies user>

4.1. Examples of 'ftp' IRIs and Internationalized URIs

   This section provides several examples of handling 'ftp' IRIs and
   internationalized URIs, as defined in Section 6.

   The IRI, which contains U+2603 SNOWMAN character in the <ftp-path> as
   one of <cwd>s and U+0109 LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX
   character in the <host>,

     <ftp://&#x0109;at.example.com/weather/&#x2603;/snow.txt>

   may result in the following data exchange:

        <client connecting to xn--at-0la.example.com on port 21>
        <xn--at-0la.example.com is Punycode-converted <host> in the IRI>
     S> 200 Hi, man!
     C> HOST xn--at-0la.example.com
     S> 220 That's OK.
     C> USER anonymous
     S> 331 Supply password
     C> PASS foo@example.org
     S> 230 Logged in
     C> FEAT
     S> 211-Features listing goes now
     S>  MLST
     S>  UTF8
     S>  NAT6
     S> 211 End
     C> CWD weather
     S> 250 Working directory changed
     C> CWD {e2.98.83}
        <the "{e2.98.83}" is a sequence of octets represented 
        hexadecimally, not a sequence of characters>
     S> 250 Working directory changed
     C> PORT 198,51,100,20,49,562
     S> 200 Data connection aranged
     C> RETR snow.txt
     S> 150 Start transmission
        <server-DTP sending snow.txt over data connection to user-DTP>
     S> 226 File sent
 


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   The following example illustrates 'ftp' URI with UCS characters,
   explicitly, the U+0125 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH CIURCUMFLEX in the
   <host> and U+1D120 MUSICAL SYMBOL G CLEF OTTAVA BASSA in one of
   <cws>s.  The URI:

     <ftp://%C4%A5ost.example.com/music/%F0%9D%84%A0/clef.pdf>

        <client connecting to xn--ost-4sa.example.com on port 21>
        <xn--ost-4sa.example.com is Punycode-converted <host> in 
        the URI, which contains UCS character>
     S> 200 Welcome
     C> HOST xn--ost-4sa.example.com
     S> 220 Accepted
     C> USER anonymous
     S> 230 No pass required
     C> FEAT
     S> 211-Listing comes here
     S>  LANG EN*
     S>  TYPE a;e;u
     S>  UTF8
     S>  REST STREAM
     S>  MLST
     S> 211 End
     C> CWD music
     S> 250 Directory changed
     C> {f0.9d.84.a0}
        <the "{f0.9d.84.a0}" is a sequence of octets represented in 
        hexadecimally, not a sequence of characters>
     S> 250 Directory changed
     C> PASV
     S> 227 Entering passive (203,0,113,16,52,458)
     C> RETR clef.pdf
     S> 150 Start transmission
        <server-DTP sending clef.txt over data connection to user-DTP>
     S> 226 File sent

5. Security and Privacy Considerations

   Generic security considerations for URIs are discussed in Section 7
   of RFC 3986 [RFC3986]; for IRIs - in Section 8 of RFC 3987 [RFC3987].

   Security considerations for FTP are addressed in RFC 2577 [RFC2577]. 
   RFC 2228 [RFC2228] and RFC 4217 [RFC4217] provided several ways for
   securing FTP.  However, the 'ftp' URI does not allow to denote
   whether any of these ways should be used.  The 'ftps' URI scheme,
   which denotes the resource available via FTP secured as defined in
   RFC 4217, is known to be deployed; this document provisionally
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   is out of the scope of this document.

   Because of some security concerns RFC 3986 did deprecate the use of
   "user:pass" format of <userinfo>, as stated in Section 3.1; it only
   applies to 'ftp' URIs because of historical reasons.  Obviously,
   those URIs which contain the password "in the clear" should be kept
   and transmitted securely (for example, using Transport Layer Security
   (TLS) [RFC5246]).

   The "anonymous FTP" [RFC1635] has a number of security implications,
   too.  When transmitting the email address as a password, if it is
   required by the server, there is a risk of email address harvesting
   by intermediary systems, a.k.a. "middle-boxes" (man-in-the-middle
   attacks) and the ultimate server.  As servers usually do not pay
   attention to such passwords, clients are encouraged to transmit email
   addresses which are either randomly-generated or non-existing, as
   doubled in Section 3.2.2.

   Security considerations for usage of Internationalized Domain Names
   are discussed in RFC 5890 [RFC5890].

6. Internationalization Considerations

   This document discusses internationalization of 'ftp' URIs, as
   required by RFC 2277 [RFC2277].

6.1. UCS Characters in 'ftp' URIs

   As allowed by Section 2.5 of RFC 3986, 'ftp' URIs may contain the
   characters from Universal Character Set (UCS) [UCS].  They are only
   allowed in <host> and <ftp-path> part; <userinfo> is not
   internationalized.

   In order to use such character in one of these parts, it SHALL first
   be encoded with UTF-8 [RFC3629].  The resulting sequence of octets
   SHALL be examined to conclude whether some octets match corresponding
   ASCII characters.  If one does, and such character is allowed in a
   particular part of 'ftp' URI, it SHALL be presented in the URI
   directly; otherwise, the octet SHALL be represented percent-encoded. 
   (In fact, such situation will only arise when the analyzed character
   is ASCII character itself, as UCS includes ASCII range.)

6.2. 'ftp' IRIs

   IRIs, described in RFC 3987 [RFC3987], may contain UCS characters "in
   the raw", unlike URIs, which only allow ones which are outside of
   ASCII range percent-encoded (see Section 4.1 above). 
   Correspondingly, the syntax of 'ftp' IRIs will be different from
 


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   URIs' one.

   The changes required in URI syntax to match valid IRI is to change
   <host> of RFC 3986 to <ihost> of RFC 3987 and <unreserved> of RFC
   3986 - to <iunreserved> of RFC 3987 in <segment-nsc>.  The <userinfo>
   is not internationalized.

   'ftp' IRIs are subject to the rules of Section 3.1 of RFC 3987 with
   respect to their mapping to 'ftp' URIs.

6.3. Handling 'ftp' URIs with UCS Characters and 'ftp' IRIs

   Handling of ftp' URIs with UCS characters and 'ftp' IRIs is mostly
   the same as discussed in Section 3.2 of this document; however, a
   number of issues should be considered.

6.3.1. Internationalized <host> Part in 'ftp' URIs and <ihost> Part in
   'ftp' IRIs

   The <host> part in 'ftp' URIs and <ihost> part in 'ftp' IRIs may
   contain internationalized strings, with UCS characters being percent-
   encoded and displayed directly, respectively.

   As Domain Name System (DNS) does not allow the UTF-8 encoded data in
   its interchange, limiting the allowed characters range to ASCII
   [ASCII], the usual procedure of UTF-8 transformation is insufficient
   here.  Hence, in order to make up the valid domain name for lookup
   and further processing the algorithm for IDN lookup defined in
   Section 5 of RFC 5891 [RFC5891] SHALL be applied.

   The received sequence of dot-separated A-labels SHALL also be used
   with FTP HOST command [I-D ietf-ftpext2-hosts], sent when
   establishing FTP connection per Section 3.2.1.

6.3.2. Internationalized <ftp-path> Part in 'ftp' URIs and <iftp-path>
   in 'ftp' IRIs

   The <ftp-path> and <iftp-path> parts allow to include UCS characters
   in FTP pathnames present in URIs and IRIs, respectively.

   In order to successfully process an internationalized FTP pathname, a
   client prior to its processing SHALL examine the server's response to
   the FEAT command [RFC2389], issued upon authentication per Section
   3.2.  If one of the lines of the response is "UTF8", the server
   supports UTF-8 encoded pathnames [RFC2640].  Otherwise, if there is
   no such line, or the server does not support the FEAT mechanism, the
   contrary SHALL be assumed.

 


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   Should it be determined that server supports UTF-8 encoded pathnames,
   the internationalized pathname parts SHALL be encoded with UTF-8
   [RFC3629] and then transmitted as an arguments to the corresponding
   FTP commands as UTF-8 octets stream.

6.4. Internationalization of Actual Data Interchange

   'ftp' RIs may refer to the file which contains the internationalized
   data.   When transmitting such file over data connection, it should
   be in Net-Unicode format [RFC5198].  In order to indicate this, the
   <typecode> equal to "u" [I-D ietf-ftpext2-typeu] SHALL be set in the
   'ftp' URI or IRI.

7. IANA Considerations

7.1. The 'ftp' URI Scheme

   IANA is asked to update the registration of the 'ftp' URI scheme in
   the appropriate registry [IANA-URIREG] with the reference to this
   document using the following template, per [RFC4395]:

     URI scheme name: ftp

     Status: Permanent

     URI scheme syntax: see Section 3.1 of RFC xxxx

     URI scheme semantics: see Section 3.2 of RFC xxxx

     URI scheme encoding considerations: see Section 3.3 of RFC xxxx

     Protocols that use the scheme: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
     [RFC0959]

     Security considerations: see Section 6 of RFC xxxx

     Contact: IESG <iesg@ietf.org>

     Author/Change controller: IETF <ietf@ietf.org>

     References: see Section 8 of RFC xxxx

   [RFC Editor: Please replace xxxx with assigned RFC number]

7.2. The 'ftps' URI Scheme

   IANA is requested to provisionally register the 'ftps' URI scheme per
   RFC 4395 [RFC4395] with reference for this document.  Specifying this
 


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   scheme is out of the scope of this document; therefore the
   registration template is not supplied.  As required by Section 4 of
   RFC 4395, the change controller for the registration is IETF
   <ietf@ietf.org>; contact party is IESG <iesg@ietf.org>.

7.3. Maintaining ftp.uri.arpa Domain

   As primarily requested by [MSG-REG] per RFC 3405 [RFC3405], IANA will
   continue maintaining the ftp.uri.arpa domain for use of DDDS with
   'ftp' URIs (see Appendix A.1).  Moreover, IANA is requested to change
   the existing substitution expression in the NAPTR record for this
   domain as described in Appendix A.

7.4. 'd' FTP TYPE Parameter

   IANA is asked to list the 'd' FTP TYPE parameter in the corresponding
   sub-registry established by RFC oooo [I-D ietf-ftpext2-typeu] as
   "Reserved for use in 'ftp' URIs" with reference to this document.

7.5. Changes to 'fp:ftp' Enumservice Registration Template

   IANA is asked to make the following change to 'ft:ftp' Enumservice
   registration template, found in RFC 6118 [RFC6118]:

   <additionalinfo>
     <paragraph>
      RFC 4002 referenced <xref type="rfc" data="rfc1738"/> as 
      specification of 'ftp' URI scheme.  However, the current 
      scheme documentation may be found in 
      <xref type="rfc" data="rfcXXXX"/>
     </paragraph>
   </additionalinfo>

   is to be added after "</requesters>".

   [RFC Editor: Please replace XXXX with assigned RFC number]

8. References

8.1. Normative References

   [ASCII]    American National Standards Institute (ANSI), "Coded
              Character Set -- 7-bit American Standard Code for
              Information Interchange", ANSI X3.4-1986, December 1986.

   [I-D ietf-ftpext2-hosts]
              Hethmon, P., and R. McMurray, "File Transfer Protocol HOST
              Command for Virtual Hosts", Work in Progress (draft-ietf-
 


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              ftpext2-hosts), February 2011.

   [I-D ietf-ftpext2-typeu]
              Klensin, J., "FTP TYPE Extension for Internationalized
              Text", Work in Progress (draft-ietf-ftpext2-typeu), June
              2011.

   [RFC0793]  Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7,
              RFC 793, September 1981.

   [RFC0959]  Postel, J. and J. Reynolds, "File Transfer Protocol", STD
              9, RFC 959, October 1985.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2389]  Hethmon, P. and R. Elz, "Feature negotiation mechanism for
              the File Transfer Protocol", RFC 2389, August 1998.

   [RFC3404]  Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
              Part Four: The Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)",
              RFC 3404, October 2002.

   [RFC3629]  Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
              10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, November 2003.

   [RFC3986]  Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
              Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
              RFC 3986, January 2005.

   [RFC3987]  Duerst, M. and M. Suignard, "Internationalized Resource
              Identifiers (IRIs)", RFC 3987, January 2005.

   [RFC5234]  Crocker, D., Ed., and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for
              Syntax Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January
              2008.

   [RFC5891]  Klensin, J., "Internationalized Domain Names in
              Applications (IDNA): Protocol", RFC 5891, August 2010.

8.2. Informative References

   [IANA-PORTREG]
              Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), "Port
              Numbers", IANA Registry, <http://www.iana.org/>.

   [IANA-URIREG]
              Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), "Uniform
 


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              Resource Identifier (URI) Schemes", IANA Registry,
              <http://www.iana.org/>.

   [HISTORIC] The IESG, "IESG Statement on Designating RFCs as
              Historic", IESG Statement, June 2011,
              <http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/designating-rfcs-as-
              historic.html>.

   [MSG-REG]  Cotton, M., "Registration of the 'ftp' URI scheme in
              uri.arpa under the key ftp.uri.arpa.", Mailing List
              Posting, January 2003,
              <http://www.iana.org/protocols/archives/register-
              uri/msg00005.html>

   [RFC0020]  Cerf, V., "ASCII format for network interchange", RFC 20,
              October 1969.

   [RFC0183]  Winett, J., "EBCDIC Codes and Their Mapping to ASCII",
              RFC 183, July 1971.

   [RFC0354]  Bhushan, A., "File Transfer Protocol", RFC 354, July 1972.

   [RFC0683]  Clements, R., "FTPSRV - Tenex extension for paged files",
              RFC 683, April 1975.

   [RFC0768]  Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768,
              August 1980.

   [RFC0822]  Crocker, D., "STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET
              TEXT MESSAGES", STD 11, RFC 822, August 1982.

   [RFC1123]  Braden, R., Ed., "Requirements for Internet Hosts -
              Application and Support", STD 3, RFC 1123, October 1989.

   [RFC1630]  Berners-Lee, T., "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",
              RFC 1630, June 1994.

   [RFC1635]  Deutsch, P., Emtage, A., and A. Marine, "How to Use
              Anonymous FTP", FYI 24, RFC 1635, May 1994.

   [RFC1639]  Piscitello, D., "FTP Operation Over Big Address Records
              (FOOBAR)", RFC 1639, June 1994.

   [RFC1738]  Berners-Lee, T., Masinter, L., and M. McCahill, "Uniform
              Resource Locators (URL)", RFC 1738, December 1994.

 


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   [RFC2026]  Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision
              3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.

   [RFC2228]  Horowitz, M. and S. Lunt, "FTP Security Extensions",
              RFC 2228, October 1997.

   [RFC2277]  Alvestrand, H., "IETF Policy on Character Sets and
              Languages", BCP 18, RFC 2277, January 1998.

   [RFC2428]  Allman, M., Ostermann, S., and C. Metz, "FTP Extensions
              for IPv6 and NATs", RFC 2428, September 1998.

   [RFC2368]  Hoffman, P., Masinter, L., and J. Zawinski, "The mailto
              URL scheme", RFC 2368, July 1998.

   [RFC2577]  Allman, M. and S. Ostermann, "FTP Security
              Considerations", RFC 2577, May 1999.

   [RFC2606]  Eastlake 3rd, D. and A. Panitz, "Reserved Top Level DNS
              Names", BCP 32, RFC 2606, June 1999.

   [RFC2640]  Curtin, B., "Internationalization of the File Transfer
              Protocol", RFC 2640, July 1999.

   [RFC3172]  Huston, G., Ed., "Management Guidelines & Operational
              Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area
              Domain ("arpa")", BCP 52, RFC 3172, September 2001.

   [RFC3401]  Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
              Part One: The Comprehensive DDDS", RFC 3401, October 2002.

   [RFC3402]  Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
              Part Two: The Algorithm", RFC 3402, October 2002.

   [RFC3403]  Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
              Part Three: The Domain Name System (DNS) Database",
              RFC 3403, October 2002.

   [RFC3405]  Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
              Part Five: URI.ARPA Assignment Procedures", BCP 65,
              RFC 3405, October 2002.

   [RFC3659]  Hethmon, P., "Extensions to FTP", RFC 3659, March 2007.

   [RFC4002]  Brandner, R., Conroy, L., and R. Stastny, "IANA
              Registration for Enumservice 'web' and 'ft'", RFC 4002,
              February 2005.

 


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   [RFC4156]  Hoffman, P., "The wais URI Scheme", RFC 4156, August 2005.

   [RFC4157]  Hoffman, P., "The prospero URI Scheme", RFC 4157, August
              2005.

   [RFC4248]  Hoffman, P., "The telnet URI Scheme", RFC 4248, October
              2005.

   [RFC4266]  Hoffman, P., "The gopher URI Scheme", RFC 4266, November
              2005.

   [RFC4217]  Ford-Hutchinson, P., "Securing FTP with TLS", RFC 4217,
              October 2005.

   [RFC4395]  Hansen, T., Hardie, T., and L. Masinter, "Guidelines and
              Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes", BCP 35,
              RFC 4395, February 2006.

   [RFC4960]  Stewart, R., Ed., "Stream Control Transmission Protocol",
              RFC 4960, September 2007.

   [RFC5137]  Klensin, J., "ASCII Escaping of Unicode Characters",
              BCP 137, RFC 5137, February 2008.

   [RFC5147]  Wilde, E. and M. Duerst, "URI Fragment Identifiers for the
              text/plain Media Type", RFC 5147, April 2008.

   [RFC5198]  Klensin, J. and M. Padlipsky, "Unicode Format for Network
              Interchange", RFC 5198, March 2008.

   [RFC5246]  Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
              (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.

   [RFC5322]  Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format", RFC 5322,
              October 2008.

   [RFC5538]  Ellermann, F., "The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes",
              RFC 5538, April 2010.

   [RFC5737]  Arkko, J., Cotton, M., and L. Vegoda, "IPv4 Address Blocks
              Reserved for Documentation", RFC 5737, January 2010.

   [RFC5797]  Klensin, J. and A. Hoenes, "FTP Command and Extension
              Registry", RFC 5797, March 2010.

   [RFC5890]  Klensin, J., "Internationalized Domain Names for
              Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework",
              RFC 5890, August 2010.
 


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   [RFC6068]  Duerst, M., Masinter, L., and J. Zawinski, "The 'mailto'
              URI Scheme", RFC 6068, October 2010.

   [RFC6116]  Bradner, S., Conroy, L., and K. Fujiwara, "The E.164 to
              Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation
              Discovery System (DDDS) Application (ENUM)", RFC 6116,
              March 2011.

   [RFC6117]  Hoeneisen, B., Mayrhofer, A., and J. Livingood, "IANA
              Registration of Enumservices: Guide, Template, and IANA
              Considerations", RFC 6117, March 2011.

   [RFC6118]  Hoeneisen, B. and A. Mayrhofer, "Update of Legacy IANA
              Registrations of Enumservices", RFC 6118, March 2011.

   [RFC6365]  Hoffman, P. and J. Klensin, "Terminology Used in
              Internationalization in the IETF", BCP 166, RFC 6365,
              September 2011.

   [UCS]      International Organization for Standardization (ISO),
              "Information technology -- Universal Coded Character Set
              (UCS)", ISO/IEC 10646:2011, March 2011.

Appendix A. 'ftp' URIs and Other Protocols

   This appendix discusses relationship of 'ftp' URIs with other
   protocols.

A.1. Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) and 'ftp' URIs

   Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) is an abstract algorithm
   for applying dynamically retrieved string transformation rules to an
   application-unique string.  The comprehensive DDDS specification
   consists of 5 documents, which are defined in RFC 3401 [RFC3401].

   RFC 3404 [RFC3404] specified a DDDS Application for resolving URIs
   using DDDS Algorithm defined in RFC 3402 [RFC3402].  A corresponding
   second-level domain has been delegated in the "arpa" zone [RFC3172] -
   "uri.arpa" [RFC3405] - for use with this Application.  RFC 3404
   specified that First Well Known Rule for the aforementioned DDDS
   Application is to append the URI scheme name to ".uri.arpa". 
   According to the provisions of RFC 3405 [RFC3405], the 'ftp' URI
   scheme was previously approved for inclusion in this zone [MSG-REG]
   in order to allow its resolving using DDDS.  Correspondingly, the
   following substitution expression was recorded in the NAPTR DNS
   resource record [RFC3403]:

     !^ftp://([^:/?#]*).*$!\1!i
 


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   using the syntax defined in Section 3.2 of RFC 3402.  However, taking
   the syntax specified in this document into account, IANA is asked to
   record the following new substitution expression in the NAPTR record
   for ftp.uri.arpa domain:

     !^ftp://([^@/?#]*@)?([^:/?#]*).*$!\2!i

   This substitution expression extracts the hostname from a given URI,
   skipping the <userinfo>, and forming the next Key.  Refer to RFC 3404
   for detailed description of DDDS Application for resolving URIs and
   RFC 3402 for generic DDDS Algorithm.

   Please note that while there is a possibility to resolve 'ftp' URIs
   using DDDS, not every given 'ftp' URI may be resolved using this
   technique.  A specific "hint" is required in order to denote this;
   for instance, "the URI <ftp://example.org/foo/bar.txt> refers to the
   very valuable information; it is mirrored at a number of servers
   which are to be discovered using DDDS".

A.2. ENUM and 'ftp' URIs

   ENUM is a way of using DDDS to map E.164 numbers to URIs.  It is
   defined in RFC 6116 [RFC6116].  ENUM uses the concept of
   "Enumservices", which provide possibility to map E.164 numbers to
   different URIs.  Registration procedures for said Enumservices are
   specified in RFC 6117 [RFC6117].  One of the currently registered
   Enumservices is 'fp:ftp', which represents the possibility to map
   E.164 number to 'ftp' URI.  It is defined in RFC 4002 [RFC4002],
   which was later updated by RFC 6118 [RFC6118].

   RFC 4002 referred to RFC 1738 [RFC1738], that-current 'ftp' URI
   scheme specification.  This document updates RFC 4002 in order to
   represent the new scheme specification; Section 7.5 asks IANA to make
   corresponding change to its registration template.

Appendix B. Previous Syntax Definitions

   This appendix copies the definition of the syntax of 'ftp' URI from
   previous documents which specified it, which might be of some
   historical interest.  Within this appendix, BNF refers to the
   convention described in Section 2 of RFC 822 [RFC0822].

B.1. RFC 1630

   RFC 1630 [RFC1630] defined the syntax of 'ftp' URI with the following
   conventions:

     This is a BNF-like description of the URI syntax. at the level at
 


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     which specific schemes are not considered.

     A vertical line "|" indicates alternatives, and [brackets] indicate
     optional parts.  Spaces are represented by the word "space", and
     the vertical line character by "vline".  Single letters stand for
     single letters.  All words of more than one letter below are
     entities described somewhere in this description.

   as follows:

     ftpaddress             f t p : / / login / path [  ftptype ]

     login                  [ user [ : password ] @ ] hostport

     user                   alphanum2 [ user ]
     password               alphanum2 [ password ]

     hostport               host [ : port ]
     host                   hostname | hostnumber
     hostname               ialpha [  .  hostname ]
     hostnumber             digits . digits . digits . digits

     path                   void |  segment  [  / path ]
     segment                xpalphas
     void

     ftptype                A formcode | E formcode | I | L digits
     formcode               N | T | C

     alphanum2              alpha | digit | - | _ | . | +
     alpha                  a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k |
                            l | m | n | o  | p | q | r | s | t | u | v |
                            w | x | y | z | A | B | C  | D | E | F | G |
                            H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P |  Q | R |
                            S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
     digit                  0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
     ialpha                 alpha [ xalphas ]
     xalphas                xalpha [ xalphas ]
     xalpha                 alpha | digit | safe | extra | escape
     safe                   $ | - | _ | @ | . | &  | + | -
     extra                  ! | * |  " |  ' | ( | )  | ,
     escape                 % hex hex
     hex                    digit | a | b | c | d | e | f | A | B | C |
                            D | E | F
     digits                 digit [ digits ]

B.2. RFC 1738

 


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   RFC 1738, which was the first Standard Track specification for many
   URI schemes, defined the syntax of 'ftp' URIs with the following
   conventions:

     This is a BNF-like description of the Uniform Resource Locator
     syntax, using the conventions of RFC822, except that "|" is used to
     designate alternatives, and brackets [] are used around optional or
     repeated elements. Briefly, literals are quoted with "", optional
     elements are enclosed in [brackets], and elements may be preceded
     with <n>* to designate n or more repetitions of the following
     element; n defaults to 0.

   as follows:

     ftpurl         = "ftp://" login [ "/" fpath [ ";type=" ftptype ]]

     login          = [ user [ ":" password ] "@" ] hostport
     hostport       = host [ ":" port ]
     host           = hostname | hostnumber
     hostname       = *[ domainlabel "." ] toplabel
     domainlabel    = alphadigit | alphadigit *[ alphadigit | "-" ]
                      alphadigit
     toplabel       = alpha | alpha *[ alphadigit | "-" ] alphadigit
     hostnumber     = digits "." digits "." digits "." digits
     port           = digits
     user           = *[ uchar | ";" | "?" | "&" | "=" ]
     password       = *[ uchar | ";" | "?" | "&" | "=" ]
     urlpath        = *xchar

     fpath          = fsegment *[ "/" fsegment ]
     fsegment       = *[ uchar | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" ]

     ftptype        = "A" | "I" | "D" | "a" | "i" | "d"

     alphadigit     = alpha | digit
     alpha          = lowalpha | hialpha
     lowalpha       = "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f" | "g" | "h" |
                      "i" | "j" | "k" | "l" | "m" | "n" | "o" | "p" |
                      "q" | "r" | "s" | "t" | "u" | "v" | "w" | "x" |
                      "y" | "z"
     hialpha        = "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" | "G" | "H" |
                      "I" | "J" | "K" | "L" | "M" | "N" | "O" | "P" |
                      "Q" | "R" | "S" | "T" | "U" | "V" | "W" | "X" | 
                      "Y" | "Z"
     digit          = "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" |
                      "8" | "9"
     digits         = 1*digit
     uchar          = unreserved | escape
 


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     unreserved     = alpha | digit | safe | extra
     safe           = "$" | "-" | "_" | "." | "+"
     extra          = "!" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")" | ","
     escape         = "%" hex hex
     hex            = digit | "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" |
                      "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f"
     xchar          = unreserved | reserved | escape
     reserved       = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "="

Appendix C. List of Changes since RFC 1738

   The first specification of the 'ftp' URI is RFC 1738.  This appendix
   lists main changes since that document.

     Updated syntax specification to use ABNF.
     Specification changed to suit RFC 3986.
     Changes made to accommodate HOST command [I-D ietf-ftpext2-hosts].
     Given more detailed description of <userinfo> semantics.
     Clarified the <ftp-path> syntax.
     Given detailed algorithm of handling <ftp-path>.
     Clarified client's handling null <cwd>s in <ftp-path>.
     Added internationalization considerations.
     Clarified encoding considerations.
     Clarified security considerations.
     Added provisions regarding DDDS.

Appendix D. Acknowledgments

   The authors of RFC 1630 and RFC 1738, who worked on the initial 'ftp'
   URI scheme definition, included Tim Berners-Lee, Larry Masinter and
   Mark McCahill.  Previous attempts to specify this URI scheme were
   undertaken by James Casey and Paul Hoffman.

   Considerable input to this document was provided by (in alphabetical
   order) John Cowan, Frank Ellermann, John Klensin, Gordon Spoelhof,
   and Daniel Stenberg.

Author's Addresses

   Mykyta Yevstifeyev
   8 Kuzovkov St., Apt. 25
   Kotovsk
   Ukraine

   EMail: evnikita2@gmail.com






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