rfc-6596

The Canonical Link Relation

M. Ohye, J. Kupke

date2012-04 streamIETF wgnon working group statusINFORMATIONAL pages8 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6596 doi10.17487/RFC6596

RFC 5988 specifies a way to define relationships between links on the web. This document describes a new type of such a relationship, "canonical", to designate an Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) as preferred over resources with duplicative content. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.