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RFC 3986, "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", January 2005

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 6874, RFC 7320, RFC 8820

Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUP
Area Assignment: app

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Errata ID: 8442
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Timothy McSweeney
Date Reported: 2025-06-01
Rejected by: Andy Newton
Date Rejected: 2025-06-03

Section 4.1 says:

Readers familiar with regular expressions should see Appendix B for an example of a non-validating URI-reference parser that will take any given string and extract the URI components.

It should say:

"any given string" is the problem here.  You can come up with the corrected text yourself.

Notes:

The original statement is false.
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The reporter has not supplied actual corrected text nor notes with sufficient explanation of the issue. This errata was discussed on the art@ietf.org list with the conclusion to reject this errata as too vague.

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