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: The [https://ietf.org/ ''Internet Engineering Task Force''] is a [[#standard|standards]] organisation which develops [[#Internet|Internet standards]], especially those that comprise the [[#PCT/IP|Internet protocol suite]] (PCT/IP). Mozilla is an active participant in the IETF. | : The [https://ietf.org/ ''Internet Engineering Task Force''] is a [[#standard|standards]] organisation which develops [[#Internet|Internet standards]], especially those that comprise the [[#PCT/IP|Internet protocol suite]] (PCT/IP). Mozilla is an active participant in the IETF. | ||
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: The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol ''Internet Protocol''] is a principal communications [[#protocol|protocol]] in the [[#PCT/IP|Internet protocol suite]] for routing data traffic across networks on the [[#Internet|Internet]] to the correct location. | |||
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: An [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Identifier ''Internationalized Resource Identifier''] is an [[#IETF|IETF]] standard which extends the [[#ASCII|ASCII]] characters subset of [[#URI|URIs]]. At Mozilla we prefer to avoid this terminology, as in practice IRIs are parsed with the same algorithm as [[#URL|URLs]], and confusing them is not helping anyone. | : An [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Identifier ''Internationalized Resource Identifier''] is an [[#IETF|IETF]] standard which extends the [[#ASCII|ASCII]] characters subset of [[#URI|URIs]]. At Mozilla we prefer to avoid this terminology, as in practice IRIs are parsed with the same algorithm as [[#URL|URLs]], and confusing them is not helping anyone. | ||