RFC 4395: Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes

This document provides guidelines and recommendations for the definition of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes. It also updates the process and IANA…

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Outgoing relationships (2 related RFCs)

Obsoletes — RFC 2717: Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names
Obsoletes — RFC 2718: Guidelines for new URL Schemes

Incoming relationships (26 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 7595: Guidelines and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7239: Forwarded HTTP Extension
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6940: REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) Base Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4452: The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6167: URI Scheme for Java(tm) Message Service 1.0
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6196: Moving mailserver: URI Scheme to Historic
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
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 6648: Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5092: IMAP URL Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5456: IAX: Inter-Asterisk eXchange Version 2
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5870: A Uniform Resource Identifier for Geographic Locations ('geo' URI)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6260: Compressed Bundle Header Encoding (CBHE)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6694: The "about" URI Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7064: URI Scheme for the Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7065: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Uniform Resource Identifiers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7472: Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) over HTTPS Transport Binding and the 'ipps' URI Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6787: Media Resource Control Protocol Version 2 (MRCPv2)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7320: URI Design and Ownership
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7565: The 'acct' URI Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5538: The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6270: The 'tn3270' URI Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7512: The PKCS #11 URI Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8958: Updated Registration Rules for URI.ARPA