Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396)

URI specification update area

The work progressed as follows:

1. I grabbed the old set of URL RFCs and removed the header/footer garbage that makes diff comparisons difficult.
2. I created a base document that merges RFC 1738 and RFC 1808 without changing any of the effective content, except in that all of the scheme-specific definitions are removed.
3. I created test pages for relative URL parsing, parts one, two, three, four, and five, and have tested a few common browsers.
4. I wrote the first three drafts (changes noted in the last appendix):
   • draft-fielding-url-syntax-00.txt
   • diff from 00 to 01, draft-fielding-url-syntax-01.txt
   • diff from 01 to 02, draft-fielding-url-syntax-02.txt
   and then passed the editor's baton to Larry Masinter for the next three
   • diff from 02 to 03, draft-fielding-url-syntax-03.txt
   • diff from 03 to 04, draft-fielding-url-syntax-04.txt
   • diff from 04 to 05, draft-fielding-url-syntax-05.txt
   • diff from 05 to 06, draft-fielding-url-syntax-06.txt
   and we have been collaborating on the last three
   • diff from 06 to 07, draft-fielding-url-syntax-07.txt
   • diff from 07 to 08, draft-fielding-url-syntax-08.txt
   • diff from 08 to 09, draft-fielding-url-syntax-09.txt
   and finally we changed from URL to URI Syntax
   • diff from 09 to uri-00, draft-fielding-uri-syntax-00.txt
   • diff from 00 to 01, draft-fielding-uri-syntax-01.txt
   • diff from 01 to 02, draft-fielding-uri-syntax-02.txt
   • diff from 02 to 03, draft-fielding-uri-syntax-03.txt
   • diff from 03 to 04, draft-fielding-uri-syntax-04.txt
     Approved by the IESG as a Draft Standard, RFC 2396.
5. Discussion of the revisions took place on the URI mailing list (uri@bunyip.com).

	Name	Last modified	Size	Description
	Parent Directory		-
	rfc1630.txt	1994-09-18 22:41	56K
	base.txt	1996-11-02 09:02	52K
	guidelines.txt	1996-11-02 09:02	4.6K
	rfc1736.txt	1996-11-02 09:02	20K
	rfc1738.txt	1996-11-02 09:02	46K
	rfc1808.txt	1996-11-02 09:02	32K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-00.txt	1996-11-17 17:59	55K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-01.txt	1996-11-26 13:57	57K
	diff00to01.txt	1996-11-26 14:07	27K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-02.txt	1996-12-07 03:59	65K
	diff01to02.txt	1996-12-07 04:12	53K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-03.txt	1997-01-20 20:34	65K
	diff02to03.txt	1997-01-20 22:27	47K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-04.txt	1997-03-27 14:01	67K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-05.txt	1997-05-07 19:51	65K
	diff03to04.txt	1997-05-07 20:24	52K
	diff04to05.txt	1997-05-07 20:25	41K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-06.txt	1997-07-31 17:13	66K
	diff05to06.txt	1997-07-31 17:14	4.1K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-07.txt	1997-09-22 15:34	68K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-08.txt	1997-10-14 23:02	70K
	diff06to07.txt	1997-10-14 23:04	36K
	diff07to08.txt	1997-10-14 23:04	23K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-09.txt	1997-10-21 21:01	71K
	diff08to09.txt	1997-10-21 21:03	4.9K
	draft-fielding-uri-syntax-00.txt	1997-11-05 22:49	72K
	draft-fielding-url-syntax-10.txt	1997-11-06 19:02	72K
	diff09to10.txt	1997-11-06 19:08	70K
	draft-fielding-uri-syntax-01.txt	1997-11-18 14:27	71K
	diff10to11.txt	1997-11-18 14:30	6.7K
	draft-fielding-uri-syntax-02.txt	1998-03-04 16:00	74K
	diff11to12.txt	1998-03-04 16:00	69K
	draft-fielding-uri-syntax-03.txt	1998-06-04 18:25	77K
	diff12to13.txt	1998-06-04 18:30	39K
	draft-fielding-uri-syntax-04.txt	1998-07-16 01:20	77K
	diff13to14.txt	1998-07-16 01:22	1.6K
	rfc2396.txt	1998-08-20 18:17	83K
	HEADER.html	1998-09-02 15:14	3.7K
	test3.html	1998-09-02 15:23	3.0K
	test4.html	1998-09-02 15:25	3.6K
	test5.html	1998-09-02 15:27	3.3K
	test1.html	1999-03-26 16:10	7.3K
	test2.html	1999-03-26 16:17	3.4K