RFC 6068: The 'mailto' URI Scheme

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This document defines the format of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) to identify resources that are reached using Internet mail. It adds better internationalization and compatibility with Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs; RFC 3987) to the previous syntax of 'mailto' URIs (RFC 2368). [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Document record

Document ID

RFC6068

Published

October 2010

Authors

M. Duerst; L. Masinter; J. Zawinski

Status

PROPOSED STANDARD

Stream

IETF

Area

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Pages

17

Also known as

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Obsoletes:

RFC 2368

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• Plain text version
• IETF Datatracker history
• DOI: 10.17487/RFC6068
• Reported errata exist →

Topics

• mailto
• email address
• URI scheme
• IRI

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• IETF stream