This document was written by the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. Comments may be addressed to the editor, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@info.cern.ch>, or to the URI-WG <uri@bunyip.com>. Discussions of the group are archived at
<http://www.acl.lanl.gov/URI/archive/uri-archive.index.html>This document is bound by the Requirements Specification in preparation.
The work is derived from concepts introduced by the World-Wide Web global information initiative, whose use of such objects dates from 1990 and is described in "Universal Resource identifeirs for the World-Wide Web", RFCXXX .
This document is available in hypertext form, with links to background information, as:
<http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/URL/Overview.html>.