RFC 2368: The mailto URL scheme

This document defines the format of Uniform Resource Locators (URL) for designating electronic mail addresses. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Outgoing relationships (2 related RFCs)

Updates — RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
Updates — RFC 1808: Relative Uniform Resource Locators

Incoming relationships (11 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by — RFC 6068: The 'mailto' URI Scheme
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5545: Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5546: iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3696: Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4355: IANA Registration for Enumservices email, fax, mms, ems, and sms
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5436: Sieve Notification Mechanism: mailto
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3966: The tel URI for Telephone Numbers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5122: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2788: Network Services Monitoring MIB
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2626: The Internet and the Millennium Problem (Year 2000)