3.1.1 Abstract Data Model

  • Article

This section specifies a conceptual model of possible data organization that an implementation maintains to participate in this protocol. The specified organization is provided to facilitate the explanation of how the protocol behaves. This document does not mandate that implementations adhere to this model as long as their external behavior is consistent with that specified in this document.

The following paragraphs specify the following terms in the context of this protocol.

Base URL: The portion of the Request-URI that matches the base rule in the ABNF in section 2.2.1.3.1.

Query Parameters: The parameters in the query component of the Request-URI, as specified in section 2.2.1.3.2, and its subsections.