Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Working Group

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• URI Working Group (concluded work in 1995, now in maintenance mode)
  • Public mailing list and archives
  • Meeting agendas and minutes
  • Current work items
  • URI-related Requests for Comment (RFC)
  • URI-related Internet Drafts
  • Historical drafts
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Public mailing list and archives

Discussion of the URI syntax, new URI scheme proposals, the process for URI scheme registration, and related Internet Drafts takes place on the URI working group mailing list <uri@w3.org>. A hypertext archive of the URI mailing list is available.

Recent Items

• RFC 3986: URI Generic Syntax (html, xml)
• The 2002-2005 revision of RFC 2396 (html, xml)
• Issues List (XML source and xslt)
• Working Draft (XML source)

Current Work Items

• Registration Procedures for URI Scheme Names
  • Revision of RFC 2717 (html, xml) and RFC 2718 (html, xml)
• URI syntax parsing tests
• example relative parser with input and output
• Test 1: relative parsing examples
• XML to RFC translation
• xslt, dtd, and schema
• Version Tracking

Related Work

• General Discussion and Archives
  • W3C URI Coordination Group
  • W3C's collected info on WWW Names and Addresses, URIs, URLs, URNs
  • Ron Daniel's collected info on Uniform Resource Identifiers
  • Old URI-WG Mailing List Archives
• Uniform Resource Names (and other resource naming issues)
  • Daniel LaLiberte's HyperNews info on URNs
  • Gordon Irlam's collected links on naming and distribution issues.
• Uniform Resource Characteristics and Metadata
  • Daniel LaLiberte's HyperNews info on and URCs
  • Stu Weibel's list of library background material.
  • Partial Redundant Distributed Meta-language (PRDM)
  • OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop
  • The Scientific and Technical Attribute Set (STAS)
• Network Information Retrieval and IIIR
  • Michael Mealling's collected IIIR papers and
    URC, URN, whois++ software archive.
  • RFC 1727 -- "A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service", C. Weider, P. Deutsch, 12/16/1994.
  • RFC 1728 -- "Resource Transponders", C. Weider, 12/16/1994.
  • RFC 1729 -- "Using the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol in the Internet Environment", C. Lynch, 12/16/1994.
• Related Standards and Drafts
  • IETF URN Working Group
  • IETF HTTP Working Group
  • IETF HTML Working Group
  • Definition of an X.500 Attribute Type and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) (RFC 2079)