Universal Resource Identifier
(URI, originally "UDI" in some {WWW}
documents) The generic set of all names and addresses which
are short strings which refer to objects (typically on the
{Internet}). The most common kinds of URI are {URL}s and
{relative URLs}.
URIs are defined in {RFC 1630}.
{W3 specification
(http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/URL/URI_Overview.html)}.
(1997-07-16)