RFC 3958:Domain-Based Application Service Location...
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URI Scheme


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... The syntax here is expanded to allow the characters that are valid in any URI scheme name (see [8]). As "+" (the separator used in the RFC3404prop ...
... RFC3404prop service parameter string) is an allowed character for URI scheme names, ":" is chosen as the separator here. ...



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