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Addressing Schemes

This is (an attempt) at an exhaustive list of URI schemes. I try to list
them all, whether they're standard (as of this writing, Jan 1996) or not.

If you are designing a new scheme, please let us know by sending a message
to www-talk.

URI Schemes in Alphabetical Order

cid:
     Content-ID. Syntax ala news: Where is it defined???
clsid:
     Feb 28 draft. identifies OLE/COM classes. related to OBJECT spec
data:
     "Data: URL scheme", L. Masinter, 02/12/1996. (3388 bytes)
     originally proposed by Masinter on www-talk. related to Inserting
     Multimedia Objects into HTML
file:
     Host-specific file names URL RFC
finger:

     IETF URI Working Group
     Internet-Draft
     draft-ietf-uri-url-finger-03
     Expires January 11, 1996
     finger URL Specification

ftp:
     File Transfer protocol URL RFC
gopher:
     The Gopher protocol URL RFC
hdl:
     CNRI handle system
http:
     Hypertext Transfer Protocol URL RFC HTTP spec
irc:
     PICS service spec
java:
     identifies java classes (@@spec?)
lifn:
     BFD -- Buld File distribution. Isomorphic to cid:
mailto:
     Electronic mail address URL RFC
mailserver:
     for mailing lists etc. (@@some internet draft???). Combine this with
     mailto:?
md5:
     MD5 is a cryptographic checksum. Anybody using it as a URI scheme?
mid:
     Message-ID. Where is it defined?
news:
     USENET news URL RFC
nntp:
     USENET news using NNTP access URL RFC
path:
     path spec
prospero:
     Prospero Directory Service URL RFC
STANF:
     Stable Network Filenames
telnet:
     Reference to interactive sessions URL RFC
wais:
     Wide Area Information Servers URL RFC
whois++:
     Distributed directory service. @@need to find spec.

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Connolly
$Date: 1996/01/01 23:30:38 $
